The mission of Fermenters Club is to improve people’s lives by teaching them why and how to make and enjoy fermented foods; and to create communities that are connected through their guts.

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About Austin, the Founder

Austin Durant has been fermenting food for over a dozen years. In 2011 he founded Fermenters Club, whose mission is to improve people’s lives by teaching them why and how to make and enjoy fermented foods; and to create communities that are connected through their guts.

Austin has taught hundreds of classes on a wide variety of fermented foods and their traditions such as sauerkraut, pickles, kimchi, kombucha, miso, and sourdough bread.

He writes and publishes recipes on his website, and hosts on-demand, self-paced food fermentation mastery courses through Fermenters Club Academy. He teaches live and virtual private team-building workshops to corporations and other organizations and hosts hands-on fermentation intensive workshops.

Austin has produced annual day-long fermentation festivals in San Diego, California and Portland, Oregon, with over 1,000 attendees.

Austin has also collaborated with some of the world’s leading researchers of the human gut microbiome at the University of California, San Diego, and has been featured in a research paper. He has been featured in Sunset Magazine, KPBS News, Savor San Diego (KPBS series), the San Diego Union-Tribune, Edible San Diego, Korduroy.tv and many other local publications and blogs.

Austin has given presentations at the Wise Traditions Conference in 2022 and 2024.

In 2024, he published his first book, Fearless Fermenting.

When not stuffing things into jars, Austin enjoys gardening, cooking, yoga, writing, practicing permaculture, and studying cosmology and esoteric traditions.