University extension class teaches sourdough bread basics in Morehead, Kentucky
Martin-Gatton College will teach sourdough basics in Morehead on July 23, with a 2.5-hour extension class built for hands-on troubleshooting.
The Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment will host a Sourdough Bread Class on Thursday, July 23, 2026, from 12:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. at Harry Clark Park - Extension Educational Facility, 600 Community Way off KY 801 in Morehead, Kentucky. For a home baker, the appeal is practical: a short in-person class where starter health, dough feel and fermentation timing can be shown, adjusted and explained face to face.
Rowan County Extension says it serves the people of Rowan County with resources and services based in university research, which gives the Morehead class a stronger community role than a simple hobby meetup. The 2.5-hour time slot is long enough to cover the bread workflow from feeding a starter and mixing dough to shaping, proofing and baking, the checkpoints where sourdough often goes sideways for beginners.
The setting adds to that value. Rowan County materials place the new Rowan County Cooperative Extension Service facility inside Harry T. Clark Community Park, and the Morehead-Rowan County Chamber of Commerce celebrated an open house and ribbon cutting there on Oct. 20, 2025. By 2026, the site was already being used for a range of public programs, including 4-H Youth Hiking Day Camp, 4-H Youth Photography Club, SET Club, Global Kitchen Adventures and Kids Art Classes, showing it has become a multi-use classroom for families and youth as well as adult learners.
The Morehead sourdough class also fits a wider Kentucky Extension pattern. Martin-Gatton College has listed a Sourdough Starter Class in Bell County for April 23, 2026, with participants going home with a starter, feeding instructions, recipes and the science behind it. In Hardin County, the college has listed a Gut Health and Sourdough Workshop priced at $25, with each attendee going home with a loaf to bake. Hopkins County has also carried a Sourdough Bread Course that names Bunny Wickham as the instructor.
That spread of county-based sourdough programming lines up with Kentucky Living’s June 11, 2026 note that sourdough baking is an ancient technique experiencing a modern resurgence. In Morehead, the lesson is likely to be less about trend and more about feel, timing and correction, the kind of help that turns a stubborn starter and a sticky dough into a loaf a baker can trust.
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