About DART
Daily Action & Rhythm of Tradition
A slower, steadier, more soul-rooted way of life.
Welcome. I’m Sarah Polk - writer, mother, spiritual misfit, baker of stubborn scones, and now, apparently, a miller.
DART is the place where I gather everything I’ve been learning (and unlearning) about how to live a life my ancestors would recognize. It’s a home for those of us who are tired of hustle, disconnected from our work, and wondering if maybe—just maybe—the wisdom we need isn’t ahead of us, but behind us.
After a fast-paced career in tech and strategy, followed by burnout, soul-searching, and a few existential crises (both theological and economic), I found myself pulled toward something older. I didn’t want to become a Trad Wife caricature—I wanted to reclaim the domestic arts as something real, valuable, and radically human.
I love baking. Spinning wool. Growing herbs. Learning how to clean with joy. And eventually, I found flour—not the white fluffy kind that makes your blood sugar spike, but the hearty, stone-ground kind that smells like life and earth and bread worth eating.
That led to the business side of the DART: a small-batch flour mill producing whole wheat flours grown and ground in Idaho, available locally through farm stands and markets. But this project is more than a business. It’s an attempt to live a rooted life—and to invite others along for the journey.
What You’ll Find Here:
Traditional recipes using whole wheat and seasonal ingredients
Reflections on slow living, domestic arts, and post-industrial burnout
Practical tools for reclaiming rhythm in a modern life
Musings on womanhood, work, and building a life that holds together
Experiments in sustainable, local community-based business
Guest contributions from others reimagining tradition
DART is not about perfection. It’s not about purity. It’s about practice—daily action, ancient rhythm, sacred ordinary life.
Whether you’re a full-time homesteader or a nurse in the city with a balcony herb garden, there’s room here for you.
I believe we can’t go back to the past. But we can bring the best of it forward.
Let’s remember who we are. Let’s reclaim what grounds us. Let’s bake some bread.
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