Our Bread

Our team takes pride in handcrafting naturally leavened sourdough breads from organic, Canadian grains. Our breads are made from the simplest ingredients: flour, water, sourdough culture and sea salt. The addition of various seeds, nuts and dried fruits and ancient grains gives us a broad pallet to paint from.

We use organically grown grains for all of our flours, much of it from our friends in a nearby Old-Order community. We use organically grown sunflower, sesame, and flaxseeds grown farther afield by farmers who care about sustainability and healthy communities.

Sesame Sourdough: The everyday wholesome-but-not-heavy bread we built our reputation on. Sifted and whole wheat flours, cracked rye, sea salt, culture, sesame seeds on top.

Country Bread: A classic French peasant levain. Sifted and whole wheat flours, whole rye flour, sea salt, culture.

Superseed: One bread to rule them all; our bestselling bread. Sifted and whole wheat flours, whole rye flour, toasted sunflower seeds, flaxseed, toasted sesame seeds, poppyseed, sea salt, culture.

Spelt: Undoubtedly these ancient grains would make this the Pharoah's Phavourite! Moist and earthy, the best way to start another great Guelph day! Spelt flour, kamut flour, cracked rye, flaxseed, sea salt, culture.

Breads from the Archives

Photos from the early days of Polestar Hearth. For nine years the bakery was attached to our home, with a huge brick oven I built in our back yard. It was a beautiful way to learn and grow, and to put our roots down into the Guelph community. People often ask if I miss baking in a brick oven. The answer is “I loved it then, but I do NOT miss it now!”. Our whole life as a family revolved around the rhythms of keeping that oven hot. Weekends were not weekends, holidays were not holidays. Baking outdoors had its own challenges from snow and rain to squirrels and skunks. Sometimes the loaves would freeze before I could score them with the razor! With a sourdough culture as a family member and a brick oven to fire every day, I shake my head now at what my wife endured for the sake of Good Bread! It takes a lot of love to build any small business, it took extra endurance to bring Polestar Hearth to life.