I have been making Lahey-method bread regularly for about the past six months, averaging about three per month. I always use at least 2/3 whole grain flour and have experimented with adding flax seeds, flax meal, oat meal, etc. I don’t proof the yeast, I just do it exactly as Lahey advises, with cool water. I add slightly more yeast and a little more water than his whole wheat recipe calls for (which has only 1/3 whole wheat), and it works perfectly every time.

This is Nicolette again. I just returned from a trip to South Georgia, where I visited Will Harris’ grass-based cattle farm and other farms. I think I now understand that Ed Bruske was not intending to mean that Will Harris uses fertilizers on his pastures, because he does not, nor do the other farms he is associated with. Will informed me that their current rotational grazing approach has dramatically improved their soil and its fertility, all without commercial fertilizers. There’s just no need for fertilizers on a well managed pasture.