✈️ Traveling with Ferments 🚢
Air travel is a modern marvel, enabling us to safely traverse vast distances in short amounts of time. The act of traveling, though, taxes our body in unnatural ways. The …
Fermenting, Food, and Freedom
Last week, I went to Tennessee to learn about fermented foods. I came home with a deeper appreciation of not only food, but freedom itself and what it means in the …
Wild Microbes and Wild Weather at the 2016 San Diego Fermentation Festival
Written by Curt Wittenberg. Reprinted with Permission. Mead, beer, cider, sauerkraut, kimchi, and cheese were all in full bloom, blowing in the wind and dancing between the raindrops at the …
Around the World with Sauerkraut
You always remember your first 💚! For me, my first fermented love was sauerkraut. In fact, ten years ago this month, I experimented with my first batch of slow-fermented cabbage. …
Some Links on the Science of Fermentation
I’ve combed the interwebs to come up with some interesting sited and links relating to the scientific and biological processes involved in fermentation. In researching these links, I aimed to …
Yum us on Yummly!
Hey, Fermenters! We just joined Yummly, whose mission is to be the smartest and most helpful food platform in existence! It’s a feature rich platform where you can customize recipes …
Fermentation Device Comparison (aka “Smackdown”)
With the increased popularity in home fermentation, there is a slew of new gadgets available to assist in small-batch fermenting (for our purposes, “small-batch” means amounts a half-gallon or smaller). …
Ginger Beer Starter
I recently started a new ginger bug! It’s not really an insect ?, but rather a wild starter that’s made from water, sugar and fresh grated #ginger. Natural airborne yeasts …
Flies and Fermenting Kombucha
You’ve heard the old saying “You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar,” right? If you’ve brewed kombucha, you know that it isn’t true! In nature, vinegar (acetic …
Gut Wellness and the Workplace
Having worked in the corporate world in my first career, I understand and have experienced the demands, stresses, and lifestyle that most people in this environment undergo. Long working hours, …
