Bread Winner: Kalama boy starts sourdough bakery business
This summer, Robert Ahrens is scholarship to skim bread.
The 13-year-old Kalama boy, who is homeschooled, is four months into his own artisan bakery job. He has expert how to be established a allowance, figure a cost-free-normal baking mastery, concentrate for permits and licenses, and perform as serve as sourdough bread.
Robert now wholesales as many as 130 loaves a week to a Kalama grocery.
"I came to my mom and said, ‘Let’s do this,’ " he said last week.
Edie Ahrens, who once worked as a journeyman baker and loves making sourdough for blood and friends, was up for the concept. The boy’s priest, odds driver Prizewinner Ahrens, wasn’t so steadfast.
"He didn’t imagine we should do it," said Robert, because the guts would eat into other information projects and next of kin then.
But Edie and Robert came up with a workable schedule and their craze won him over. The boy will bake three days a week during the approach year and four days a week in summer, for about four hours a day.
