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Life’s a climb, but around here we fuel it with mini loaves, a little goat wisdom, and a whole lot of scrappy magic. Loaf + Lore is where bread meets story, where flour-dusted counters are a feature not a flaw, and where goats (both real and metaphorical) remind us not to take ourselves too seriously.

Fresh from the oven

Our bread begins the way most good things do; slowly and with intention. We bake small-batch sourdoughs that shift with the seasons, the weather, and the rhythm of daily life. Every loaf tells a little story of what’s happening in the kitchen that day – a new blend of flour, a tweak in timing, a handful of something unexpected.

We don’t chase perfection here. A good loaf should be honest: crackly where it got too close to the flame, soft where it needed more time, and alive with the kind of flavor that only comes from patience. These bakes are made to be torn, shared, and eaten while still warm – a reminder that joy is best when it’s imperfect, fleeting, and passed between hands.

Bread Meets Story

Loaf + Lore began with a simple idea: that making something by hand changes how you move through the world. Bread became our medium – part craft, part meditation, part rebellion against hurry. It asks for presence. For listening. For the quiet kind of focus that turns routine into ritual.

This space is where the act of baking becomes a metaphor for everything else we’re learning; about patience, resilience, and the strange beauty of starting over. Every loaf, like every story, has its own rise and fall, its unpredictable texture, its hard-won sweetness. Here, we explore how those small, tactile acts; mixing, shaping, waiting, can remind us what it means to build a life that’s both grounded and creative.

Between Bakes

Lore is where everything that happens outside the mixing bowl still finds a place to rise. It’s the in-between space; the quiet hum of daily life where stories, projects, and experiments unfold at their own pace. Some days it’s a renovation update or a DIY gone slightly sideways; other days it’s a piece of writing about parenting, partnership, or learning to make peace with slow progress.

This corner of Loaf + Lore is less about recipes and more about the life that happens around them – the walls we paint between batches, the kids underfoot while dough proofs, the way creativity shows up in ordinary routines. Here, we explore how home is both a work in progress and a living thing: equal parts mess, meaning, and making-do.

Not everything that comes out of this kitchen is soft or sensible. Some things start as accidents – a paint spill that turned into a print, a failed loaf that became a starter kit, a sketch scrawled in the margins of a recipe card. Not Bread is the feral twin of Loaf + Lore; the place where the ideas that didn’t fit in the oven found somewhere else to live.

Here you’ll find art prints with fingerprints still on them, sourdough starter kits built for the impatient and the curious, cookbooks scribbled in the margins, and whatever else crawled out of the creative chaos that day. None of it’s polished, but all of it’s real – proof that making something, anything, is how we stay alive to the world.

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Goat Notes is the newsletter for people who can’t stop making things.

Bread. Art. Trouble. Whatever’s rising this week. It’s equal parts recipe, ramble, and reminder that we’re all just winging it. Come for the carbs, stay for the chaos.

The Loaf and Lore Promise

We don’t do perfect. We do real.

Real loaves that crack weird and taste better for it.
Real stories that wander off halfway through because the timer went off.
Real goats — sometimes in the yard, sometimes in the kitchen, occasionally eating the props.

What we make here is equal parts heart and havoc: bread that remembers the weather, art that started as a spill, words written with flour still on our hands. It’s messy, honest, and built from whatever ingredients life throws our way.

No polish. No pretense. Just good chaos, shared generously — because the best things are the ones that rise a little uneven.

Fresh from the oven

Bread Meets Story

Between Bakes

The G.O.A.T. on Amazon (in this herd's opinion)

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Goat Notes is the newsletter for people who can’t stop making things.

The Loaf and Lore Promise