A Little Dirt Can't Hurt

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A Little Dirt Can't Hurt Growing confidence in women who crave an outdoor space to feel like home, full of food, native flowers and pollinators. Welcome! I am an Edible Backyard Planner.

Fort Bend County, TX

✨Book with me below✨ I'm Nicole, I live outside of Houston, TX, in Zone 9a/b. I host workshops locally, specializing in edible gardens, dog-safe plants, and Texas native plants. Message me to learn more about how I can help you build your dream garden!

10/06/2026

2027 Calendars will be available for presale soon!

Are you interested in the small desk calendar or the wall calendar??

10/04/2026

Sienna Mulch is one of my top 5 garden supply places in the Houston area.

They are kind, friendly, and have high quality products.

All of the pink stone in my garden came from Sienna Mulch!

They have a super cute gift shop inside, and they also sell pretty much everything you need to start a garden (other than the plants).

I highly recommend checking them out, if you haven't already.

10/01/2026

Cleanup after making sourdough is my least favorite part of the process.

I'm doing a series on how I make sourdough, so go back and watch previous videos of you're interested!

Even after cleaning with a scrub brush, scrub daddy or maybe other things I've tried, I can never get this very faint film off of my mixer bowls.

I use Barkeeper's Friend to get that stubborn layer off so they're nice and clean for next time.

Do you have any helpful cleaning tips when you're baking?

Almost everything I'm using in these videos is linked in my bio.

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I'm Nicole, in a garden coach in the Houston area that helps women feel more confident with growing and maintaining their own gardens. I also am a nature photographer and randomly bake sourdough bread!
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10/01/2026

We are ready to bake!

I'm doing a series on how I make sourdough, so go back and watch previous videos of you're interested!

The loaves were in the refrigerator for about 2 days.

I preheated the oven to 450 degrees convection for about an hour before the loaves went in.

Double loaf pans are used to trap the steam so we get that lovely bubbly crust.

Bake for about 25 minutes with the covers on, then make for about 15 off (you can optionally drop the temp 25 degrees here).

Let me know how yours turn out!

Almost everything I'm using in these videos is linked in my bio.

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I'm Nicole, in a garden coach in the Houston area that helps women feel more confident with growing and maintaining their own gardens. I also am a nature photographer and randomly bake sourdough bread!
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09/25/2026

We are almost ready to bake!

I'm doing a series on how I make sourdough, so go back and watch previous videos of you're interested!

In this video I finished bulk fermentation, shape the loaves, then they go into the fridge to cold proof.

The recipe I made was for two loaves but it ended up making larger loaves than I wanted so I split it into three. Each loaf weighed about 650 g.

The great thing about making sourdough is you have a lot of wiggle room.

I don't feel like baking right now so I am going to put them in the fridge until tomorrow.

I use a basket, organic cotton cloths, and disposable bowl covers and let them sit in the refrigerator for at least a day.

Almost everything I'm using in these videos is linked in my bio.

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I'm Nicole, in a garden coach in the Houston area that helps women feel more confident with growing and maintaining their own gardens. I also am a nature photographer and randomly bake sourdough bread!
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09/25/2026

I'm doing a series on how I make sourdough, so go back and watch previous videos if you're interested!

This is how I keep my drains from clogging with the sourdough gunk.

Keep a bowl, my mixing bowl, full of hot soapy water.

You can use it to clean dough off your hands and off all your tools.

After it settles, usually overnight, I dump the water off the top then dump the gunk in the trash.

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I'm Nicole, in a garden coach in the Houston area that helps women feel more confident with growing and maintaining their own gardens. I also am a nature photographer and randomly bake sourdough bread!
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09/25/2026

Time to make the donuts! Who else remembers that commercial?

Just kidding, it's time to mix the sourdough.

My starter sat for about 12 hours today after mixing early this morning.

You'll need:
100 g of starter
300 g of water
500 g of flour
15 g of salt

I use a mixer but you can certainly mix this by hand. Either way, you need to make sure it's mixed thoroughly.

After mixing we move it to a bin to sit for 30 minutes.

Then it's time for stretch and folds. This basically means that we are building up the gluten.

In this video I only needed one set of stretch and folds and coil folds, however, depending on the size of the batch you make or how your dough looks, you may need to do it three or four times and let it the dough rest about 30 minutes in between.

When you're dough is nice and smooth, it's time for bulk fermenting which means letting it rise.

People say it shouldn't rise more than double, I have mixed thoughts on that that I'll share tomorrow.

I'm going to let my dough sit overnight to ferment and then I will deal with it in the morning.

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I'm Nicole, in a garden coach in the Houston area that helps women feel more confident with growing and maintaining their own gardens. I also am a nature photographer and randomly bake sourdough bread!
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09/24/2026

Make sourdough bread with me, starter update.

If you're wanting to make sourdough and looking for some guidance, go back and watch part 1, this is an update.

The starters I'm showing you are about 5 to 6 hours after I fed them this morning.

If you are following along or if you make your sourdough later after you order the Heirloom Sourdough starter, send me pictures because I want to see them!

Also check out the link in my bio. It's got a link to the Heirloom Sourdough starter that you can buy and it also has an Amazon affiliate list with all of my favorite sourdough tools and packaging.

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