What Makes Us A Value-Added Food Producer?

From Raw Ingredients to Real Food

At Home Cooking Is Better, we believe the best food starts with the simplest, raw ingredients and a whole lot of care.

What makes our bread special isn’t just that it’s sourdough. It’s how we take those basic ingredients like fresh herbs, grated cheese, real fruit and veggies straight from the earth, and turn them into a nourishing, value-added product your family can feel good about.

We Mill Our Own Wheat Berries

Every loaf is baked with organic wheat berries, we freshly mill ourselves just before baking, which means more flavor, more nutrients, and no unnecessary processing.

Fresh-milled flour still has all the natural oils and bran intact which is the good stuff that gets stripped out in most store-bought flours. It’s wholesome, hearty, and full of life.

Real Ingredients, Not Fillers

We keep our ingredient lists short, clean, and real.

  • Our cinnamon raisin loaves are made with real raisins not dried-out bits or sweetened impostors.
  • Our savory sandwich loaves are packed with fresh herbs, and garden-grown tomatoes.
  • We use wild yeast from our own sourdough starter—no commercial yeast, ever.

Every ingredient is chosen with intention. We never cut corners with preservatives or artificial flavors.

Just raw, real food.

What Does “Value-Added” Mean?

home cooking is better sourdough sandwich loaves

We’re taking farm-fresh ingredients and turning them into finished foods that are ready to enjoy.

We proudly hand you a beautiful loaf of naturally fermented bread, baked slow, with all natural ingredients.

From grain to loaf, from seed to slice, this is how food should be.


We’re also Common Grain Alliance Members!

Home Cooking Is Better is a member of Common Grain Alliance, a nonprofit that connects and supports farmers, millers, bakers, and grain artisans to build a vibrant, integrated, equitable and regenerative grain economy in the Mid-Atlantic.

Their work supports us in what we do and makes it easier for us to help customers enjoy regionally-grown grain in a fresh loaf of sourdough bread

I’m Andrea!

We care about what goes into your bread. That’s why we value quality ingredients, nourishing bread, and integrity. We believe bread should taste good and be good for you. Our sourdough sandwich loaves were created to do just that. You can choose from a plain everyday loaf, a hint of sweet and cinnamon, or a savory herbal loaf. You really can’t go wrong, every choice is a good one!

Our Products


100% Wild Yeast

This is how we bake. Read why.


Our Loaves Are Naturally Slow-Fermented


Baked With Real Herbs, Fruits and Veggies

We are local value-added food producers! – Read more about it here.


Raw Honey – Nothing Else

We found what works! Here’s what we have to say about it.


We are a Common Grain Alliance Member!

Milling fresh grains in every loaf.

Buying from us supports agricultural sustainability in the Mid-Atlantic. See how.