Hello,
My name is Zaruba Doyle and I created Finding Foundations.
I have always loved the "Little House on the Prairie" lifestyle. I am a born and raised Southern Oregon native. I grew up playing barefoot outside, growing a garden with my family, learning to sew and crochet from my mom and milking my Papa's cow whenever we went to visit.
This was the lifestyle I loved, but like most people, I fell into the convenience of a modern life.
I never strived for the "homestead" lifestyle, I simply admired it from a short distance, dipping my toes in occasionally but never really "taking it on".
I married my husband, Luke, when I was 18, and he, 19, in 2018. We had our first son in 2020 and our second son in 2022. We love, and are blessed, that most of our immediate family, not only lives close to us, but we all get along really well. And, not just that, but we all, for the most part, admire the simpler/homestead lifestyle to some degree. That, and we are all a little hippie/crunchy at heart. At least a tiny bit, definitely some more than others!
I had tried making kombucha a couple times in 2020 with no success, mainly, because I had no motivation for it to succeed. I even tried sourdough, once, in 2021, with no kitchen scale and no experience. I decided to give up until I had more knowledge. In other words, I gave up. I didn't give it much more thought until my sister-in-law offered me some of her starter in the beginning of December 2022 and I decided to buy myself a kitchen scale and do this thing proper!
Needless to say I got hooked. I fell in love with the aspect of making my own bread and started researching different recipes and experimenting with different styles.
Growing up with a mom who let us 3 kids (which she had in under 3 years) just roam about the kitchen and make whatever we wanted, has really been beneficial. I see the fruits of having a "no limits" type of baking upbringing. Having learned my own mistakes in the kitchen has caused me to have a deeper sense of right and wrong when it comes to kitchen knowledge. I have a sense for what might work or what probably is going to flop! This may sound like pride, but really it is a deep feeling of gratitude towards my mom and her motto, "you can do whatever you want as long as you clean it up", It was such an amazing gift, and I don't think she even knows.
Having that as my background, I was able to fall, pretty easily, into the swing of sourdough, I will share my favorite recipes in another post, but that taste of, "I can do this. I DID this!", really set something off in me. I shared my first loaf on social media
and I got several comments from other women saying, "Teach Me!", so I put another post out there asking if the women of my area would be interested in attending classes based on Basic Skills women once knew and that a majority of the younger generations do NOT know. It was a hit! And thus, Finding Foundations, was born!
Since starting Finding Foundations mid-December 2022, I have been blessed, with so many women around me offering to teach the different skills classes and opening there home to host all of the classes! God has really showed up, and right when I needed a direction to put my energy towards(besides my kids, haha).
This was it, and I am so excited to see where He takes it and me!
If you have gotten this far and would like to see what classes we are offering this quarter, click HERE!
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