Workshop: Fermentation: Creating Kombucha and Sauerkraut
This hands-on session is an opportunity to learn about fermentation, the benefits of fermentation and how to create ferments at home to support a healthier gut and reduce food waste. We will introduce the basics of fermentation and how fermented foods and drinks can help support a happy and healthy gut and mind, We will be sharing knowledge, skills and tips for participants on how to make a kraut using seasonal and local produce, pickling to reduce food waste as well as making a probiotic fizzy drink at home. This session is ideal for anyone who wishes to understand more about fermentation’s health benefits and for those who want to create ferments at home. No previous fermentation skills needed! Together we will cover:
Health benefits of fermentation (‘gut-brain axis’)
Safety and equipment needed to ferment at home
Making a kombucha, first and second ferment
Preparing and making a seasonal sauerkraut
Discussion about flavours and other ferments to try at home
You will leave this session with two ferments and the understanding and basic skills to continue at home.
Meet Raoul
Raoul Rechnitz (ANutr) is a Registered Nutritionist and Chef and Founder of Picture of Health Nutrition, a consultancy for gut health and nutrition education. As part of the Fermenters Guild, he leads fermentation classes on sauerkraut and kombucha especially, teaching about gut health and the applications of fermented foods for our overall health.
In this session, Raoul will guide you through the minefield of terminology like probiotics and prebiotics before speaking about the ancestral beginnings of fermentation and the different ways that populations have been fermenting for millennia.
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Price: £92
Note for Southwark residents: Our weekend workshops are now available by paid booking only. We are no longer able to offer free places due to the discontinuation of external funding. We hope to offer free places again at some point in the future.