Wildflower Baking

Wildflower Baking Wildflower Baking is an underground bakery popping up around Portland, Oregon.

We do special order baking, small scale catering, and restaurant pop-ups featuring local whole grains, farm-direct produce, ferments, edible flowers, and foraged foods. Our goal is to highlight the incredible produce being grown by local farmers, creating seasonally inspired menus of pastries, platters, plates, and brunches. We hope to build community in the intersection of food and sustainable practices like buying local, growing food, working collectively, and riding bicycles.

While it doesn’t really feel like summer, (no music festivals, backyard parties, biking late into the night...) there ar...
07/16/2020

While it doesn’t really feel like summer, (no music festivals, backyard parties, biking late into the night...) there are certain unmistakable summer things that have been grounding me in this moment.

Watching fruit trees grow heavy with ripe fruit is one of them. If anything, 2020 has been a great plum year. There are the dark purple plums that stain everything they touch, these golden plums which became so abundant they bent the tree’s branch down over the sidewalk (a sort of offering for the passerby), the Italian plums that aren’t quite ripe yet, and many more, just in this neighborhood. Next will be figs, something I look forward to every year.

In other news, we will be open for pastries tomorrow out of ! This is the first day that we will be open at the same time, something we are planning on being a more regular thing. Tomorrow (Friday 7/16) we will be open at 8:30am for all your pastry needs. will be opening at 10am for sandwiches, deli salads and more! Don’t forget there is also a little market of selected items like Katz Vinegar, , halva, turmeric and much more! Come check it out!

Also, one more thing, in an effort to be totally transparent, we are sharing our COVID action plan with you all so you know what we are doing and what our response will be if something happens. Transparency is key to create a culture of honesty and vulnerability, something we really value. Swipe if you’re interested.

Hope to see you all tomorrow! 💞

@ Portland, Oregon

Juneteenth commemorates the day in 1865 when freedom finally came for enslaved Black people in the Confederate states wh...
06/19/2020

Juneteenth commemorates the day in 1865 when freedom finally came for enslaved Black people in the Confederate states when Union troops arrived to Galveston, Texas. This was TWO YEARS AFTER the Emancipation Proclamation was signed and two more additional months after the Civil War ended.

As the National Museum of African American History and Culture writes “Juneteenth marks our country’s second Independence Day. Although it has long been celebrated in the African American community, this monumental event remains largely unknown to most Americans.”

If you celebrate July 4th but have never learned about Juneteenth, interrogate why that is. Why is it that this year is the first time in history Multnomah County and this City of Portland have declared Juneteenth a paid holiday. Why isn’t June 19th a national holiday?

Today- particularly if you are white - honor that Juneteenth celebrates Black freedom and resistance and please take the time to learn about Portland’s enduring history of racial discrimination.

We will be posting lots of actionable items in the stories today. Things about how racism was written into the Oregon constitution, how reparations are vital to acknowledging and overcoming our history of violence against Black Americans.

And remember, you’re on stolen land.

Juneteenth commemorates the day in 1865 when freedom finally came for enslaved Black people in the Confederate states wh...
06/19/2020

Juneteenth commemorates the day in 1865 when freedom finally came for enslaved Black people in the Confederate states when Union troops arrived to Galveston, Texas. This was TWO YEARS AFTER the Emancipation Proclamation was signed and two more additional months after the Civil War ended. As the National Museum of African American History and Culture writes “Juneteenth marks our country’s second Independence Day. Although it has long been celebrated in the African American community, this monumental event remains largely unknown to most Americans.”

If you celebrate July 4th but have never learned about Juneteenth, interrogate why that is. Why is it that this year is the first time in history Multnomah County and this City of Portland have declared Juneteenth a paid holiday. Why isn’t June 19th a national holiday?

Today- particularly if you are white - honor that Juneteenth celebrates Black freedom and resistance and please take the time to learn about Portland’s enduring history of racial discrimination.

There will be lots of action points in the stories today as to what you can do to help uplift this holiday and learn more about how racism was literally written into the constitution of Oregon.

Also remember, you are on stolen land.

We know that this moment is leaving many feeling overwhelmed and scrambling. It is a moment of necessary and welcomed di...
06/18/2020

We know that this moment is leaving many feeling overwhelmed and scrambling. It is a moment of necessary and welcomed discomfort. We also acknowledge how important it is right now to take care of our physical and mental well-being in order to keep up the momentum to fight for what we believe in.

For this reason we decided to start offering a tea blend of herbs known for their stress-reducing and anxiety-relieving properties (they also all offer a much needed boost for the immune system!). The blend features hops, tulsi (also known as holy basil), lemon balm and ginkgo. Mixing up this tea blend for you and researching the properties of each herb also offered us an important opportunity to reflect on how the information we have been exposed to in our personal experiences has largely been filtered through a Eurocentric and colonial lens. This lens often upholds traditions of appropriation, cultural erasure, and stolen ancestral healing traditions related to plants and herbal medicine.

We invite you to join us in challenging this norm, to investigate how our daily encounters with information may be rooted in extractive histories of capitalism, colonialism, and patriarchy. We have a lot to learn to support movements to and invite you to help us.

There are so many Black herbalists that are doing amazing things with their wisdom of herbalism. has a list of Black herbalists to support, follow and buy from. Go check it out!

💌 There are a lot of reasons we want you to sign up for our newsletter, and just to incentivize you a little more, we’re...
06/17/2020

💌 There are a lot of reasons we want you to sign up for our newsletter, and just to incentivize you a little more, we’re offering 10% your next order to those who sign up now!

You could order these beautiful little galettes that will be made with cherries (but these guys from last week were made with strawberries from .dici and rhubarb from ).

The weekly newsletter will include updates from the kitchen on what we’re baking, musings on grains and pastries, and resources that we feel are important to share with you. These emails are lovingly written by .e.gourley.

Wildflower Baking is dedicated to being part of the radical change that is really sinking its teeth in right now. Learn more about future plans and more by signing up for our newsletter!

As always, thanks for following along on Instagram!

Did you know that you can order a cake from Wildflower Baking’s own .e.gourley?All funds are being donated to different ...
06/16/2020

Did you know that you can order a cake from Wildflower Baking’s own .e.gourley?

All funds are being donated to different Black-led community based organizations or projects, including and many more.

Katie has been creating these exquisite cakes that highlight whole grain profiles and include beautiful local flora. If you’re looking for a truly seasonal cake that goes to a great cause, this is it.

Keep these cakes in mind for birthday’s, other celebrations or “just cuz.” Please give at least one week notice by DMing .e.gourley on her Instagram page. You can pick your cake up at our kitchen at 833 NW 16th Ave...for the time being. 😉

Stay well. Feel your feelings. And take care of each other. We can create real change when we take care of ourselves and give permission for the change to happen first inside of ourselves. Love y’all.

@ Portland, Oregon

🍒 🍐 🍏 NOW ACCEPTING YOUR FORAGED FRUIT!! 🧺These cherries come from a customer in St. John’s and we will be making little...
06/15/2020

🍒 🍐 🍏 NOW ACCEPTING YOUR FORAGED FRUIT!! 🧺

These cherries come from a customer in St. John’s and we will be making little galettes with them for next weekend. Order through the link in bio! Sadly, the days of deliveries are over, but pre-order to pick up Saturday and Sunday from 9am - 1pm. 💗

In an effort to keep supply chains as simple as possible, connect with our community and enjoy the bounty that this land has to offer, we are calling on our neighbors who have lots of fruit with nowhere to go.

We will offer you trade credit for cherries, plums, peaches, apricots, figs, grapes, quince, apples and whatever you got too much of. The idea of using our customers fruit that is as local as possible is VERY exciting for us! We go through a ton of it and plan on using even more by dehydrating it and replacing the other dried fruit we’ve been buying. It usually comes from California and sometimes is treated with preservatives. Not our fave.

The past months have really demonstrated how strong we can be when we work together. Figuring out creative ways around systems where there seems to be no alternative is something scrappy people like us are doing on the daily. This fosters independence from all damaging systems that we have all been indoctrinated to depend on. How can we break free?

When we help each other, we realize there are alternatives to things like police and grocery stores. Mutual aid helps wean us off these systems that are ultimately damaging to communities, families and young people.

Step by step we can reimagine another future and it begins right in your own backyard. ⚡️
@ Portland, Oregon

Wildflower Baking has always been a lot of things, some people might argue TOO many things. How can a cute little bakery...
06/11/2020

Wildflower Baking has always been a lot of things, some people might argue TOO many things. How can a cute little bakery also be an educational resource and a radical tool? How can we challenge such oppressive systems through cookies and croissants?

The fact of the matter is, when we limit our business, we limit the parts of ourselves that show up to work. Bringing only a portion of myself to work has always felt inauthentic to me. Like yes, I can certainly be a friendly person selling cookies, but I also have this deeply analytical and radical side that I feel drawn to express through this business.

And as Katie has started working here it has become clear that she too feels the need to express more than just her recipe ideas through this business.

As a food business, our responsibility for transparency is becoming more and more important. We want to spark difficult conversations through comfortable food.

We will be doing some investigation into the ingredients we use on a daily basis: how are these things colonized, appropriated or stolen? Do we still need to use them?

We will also continue to question the white male dominated food industry that we are undeniably a part of. This MUST change and we really want to be a part of this change.

We will continue to recognize the privileges that have allowed us this opportunity (as two white liberally educated women from affluent backgrounds) to run an unconventional bakery.

In all of this, we hope to gain your support, the support of your friends and continue to build a community that resists the conventional food industry that is so damaging in so many ways.

So thank you for following us this far. If you’d like to sign up for our newsletter (Katie is writing this and it will include more thoughts and resources) you can do that at the bottom of our online store website.

Hope to see some beautiful faces at our pick up window this weekend. We are still here to nourish you. 💗


As always, changes are a-brewing.We are introducing this strawberry rhubarb galette with sourdough spelt crust. It will ...
06/08/2020

As always, changes are a-brewing.
We are introducing this strawberry rhubarb galette with sourdough spelt crust. It will take the place of the handpie in the Wildflower Baking Box, so be on the look out for that little stunner.

Also, this will be the last week we do deliveries. While it seemed like a useful function at the height of quarantine, it hasn’t seemed very high in demand and spending that energy driving around town doesn’t feel like the best use of time right now. There is still one more opportunity to have a delivery: this Sunday 6/14. So get those orders in now while you still can!

I’ve made a few updates to our website and online store to include resources on antiracist work. Right now that work includes centering the Black community, but don’t forget about the people indigenous to this land, the many tribes that thrived among the Willamette and Columbia Rivers before the land was stolen from them by white colonialists. On our website their is an entire tab entitled “ON STOLEN LAND” that includes the part of this story, as well as resources to learn more and how you can change this narrative.

In our store there is a donation link to , a Black woman run who “empower BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) communities in Portland by leveraging economic deposits from communities of privilege to empower BIPOC communities and begin to move towards economic equity.” I’ve also included a link to .cargle’s Public Address on the Revolution. She’s a bombshell and one of the first people who taught me about antiracist work. I highly recommend starting with her compiled resources and listening to her.

I’ve also started relistneing to the podcast portion of “The 1619 Project,” an interactive, multimedia by (Nikole Hannah-Jones) that reclaims the narrative of slavery and race in this country. I could not recommend it more.

Stay safe, stay well and stay out there y’all. Remember that all of this is just one gigantic act of LOVE.

Weekend Update:Pastries and breakfast sandwiches available for pick-up today from 9am to 1pm at our window located at 83...
06/07/2020

Weekend Update:
Pastries and breakfast sandwiches available for pick-up today from 9am to 1pm at our window located at 833 NW 16th Ave. We will have lots of extras today so please swing by!

There are many things you can do right now (and continue to do forevermore) to unlearn and dismantle racism.We have thou...
06/04/2020

There are many things you can do right now (and continue to do forevermore) to unlearn and dismantle racism.

We have thought a lot about how to respond in this moment as a baking business. Nothing short of radical policy change will be adequate but we have decided to encourage people to do their own research to find out what the Black community needs right now. This is part of doing the work.

In solidarity, we will be offering a pack of rye resistance shortbreads to anyone who signs up for reoccurring monthly donations to anti-racist organizations. This could be as little as $5 a month, a small step that can make a big difference. The focus is on the continued act of resistance.

And this is something we will continue to do forever because we want to reiterate: this is not new, this is not going to be “done” if the protests move out of your attention span, this is an enduring, lifelong fight that needs sustained commitment. Pledge a monthly reoccurring donation to an organization dismantling systemic racism, get rye resistance shortbreads.

I’ve tagged a few organizations to start out with, but there are many many more. Do your research, don’t be afraid to be uncomfortable, stay vigilant. Remember, your comfort is NOT the priority here.

But don’t stop there. Turn to Black educators like , and . Buy Black art. Support Black owned businesses. Follow local Black women in food like and .

Find all those lists that people are rattling off on Instagram and print them out to put them on your fridge.

Let people know you’re actively anti-racist. Normalize it. Let it become part of your identity. We’re all going to make mistakes doing these things, but that is how we progress. Try and fail and fail BETTER.

Black lives matter.
06/02/2020

Black lives matter.

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