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About
I offer custom whole grain cakes and often host pop-up events where you can find my baked goods. I bake with seasonal and local products and flowers and use whole grains sourced from our PNW regional grain shed. I am known around town for a very light touch with sweetness, and my cakes tend to be significantly less sweet than others you may have had, and they sometimes even play a flirtatious dance with savory. Sweet Clover Baking was a community baking project born out of the early months of the pandemic meant to bring small moments of joy to folks at home wondering how to mark time, how to find rhythm and ritual in the midst of upheaval. Eventually, that project naturally evolved into a small custom cake business that I offer in my time away from the farm. It has been a way to keep me tethered tangibly to my life as a baker and the important meaning-making I find in that craft, even as I have switched to full time farming. Click here for current menu/ order form If you would like to discuss a special occasion or wedding cakes please contact me directly Why whole grains? Baking with whole grains for me means telling a story of how the flour we use is part of cultural heritage; of how pastry can be political; how breads are agricultural; and how our daily sustenance has just as much to do with soil health, community resilience, and beauty, as it does with making a tasty treat. Our modern loss of grain biodiversity is striking. However, many outstanding farmers and millers are counteracting this by revitalizing saved seeds from ancient varieties, many of which have long laid dormant in gene banks around the world. Join me in celebrating biodiversity and celebrating farmers who are giving heritage grains a new life! Let's bake the world we want to live in. |
