Fermenting Change Index to past posts
Find recipes, instructive posts, nerdy posts, and musings here
This newsletter has been around long enough that a few weeks ago I did my 100th post. I realized that it isn’t ideal to do the long scroll through every post if you are looking for something you remember seeing—how to ferment celery or ginger for example.
This index contains all the posts some are paywalled but many are not. I have astericked a few that were popular when they came out—if you need some ideas to get started. Also I will pin this post and continue to add new posts so that you can refer to it anytime. (Note: This post is too long to fit in the email. Head to Fermenting Change home page and you will see the complete post.)
Gut Microbes
Exploring our gut’s role in the food we crave
What are paraprobiotics and postbiotics?
Why our guts love cranberries (Meet Akkermansia muciniphila)
Our microbiome is with us from cradle to grave
Understand the relationship between your gut health and immune response
Going outside for our microbiome
Fermentation process posts and tips
How heat affects lactic acid fermentation
Reducing food waste with fermentation (video demo)
While you are away (what to do with ferments when you leave video)
Basics of vinegar making starting with fresh juice
Why some lactic acid ferments bubble and others don’t
Using flowers 🌸 to capture wild yeasts
Using dehydration for tastier ferments
Foraging for ferments with universal recipe
Fermented Foods and Health
*Understanding histamines in fermentation
Chocolate 🍫 (and why it's good for you)
Defining Lactic Acid, Lactate, Lacto-fermentaion, and Lactose
Ingredient + Fermentation
Cranberries (benefits and gut health)
Fermenting pumpkins and other winter squash
Mustard seeds (3 recipes for homemade mustard + video demo)
Salt Posts
Understanding Sea Salt and salt pans of Aveiro, Portugal
Using fermented vegetables to use less salt
Why salt is needed in fermentation
Black Salt (recipe)
Tempeh
About tempeh, tempeh research, + recipe for Tempeh Rueben
Health benefits of tempeh + recipe for tempeh bacon
Natto
Recording of making and enjoying natto
Recipes 🍆🥬🌶️🥕🥒 Vegetables and some fruit 🍋🍐
Digestive Bitters Kraut with video demo
Rosemary Grapefruit Daikon Spirals
Fermented eggplant preserved in oil
Lemon Quince Kimchi (video demo)
Fermenting Carrots 🥕🥕🥕Three Ways (Video + webinar recording)
Ferment baseball bat-size zucchini (Video demo)
Recipes 🍹🥂 Fermented sodas and beverages
Kefir Cultured Cider (fermenting 🍎 juice)
Tepache 🍍 (recipe + video demo)
Base process for an edible blossom shrub
Orangina recipe + making fruit sodas
Recipes Vinegar
Recipes Miso, Tempeh, Natto, Koji
Recipes *On the plate* (dishes using fermented ingredients)
Chocolate Beet Coconut Macaroons
2 recipes for prune plums (cake and preserves)
Recipes that don’t fit in a neat category
Fermented Buckwheat Crepes part 1
Fermented Buckwheat Crepes part 2
Make Injera + Teff info
Fermenting Herbs 🌱
Tips for fermenting with nettles
Nettle Kimchi recipe (and a little nettle research)
Miso and Koji
Visit to miso factory in Toyko
Sakadane: Where Koji Meets Bread
Fermentation on the road (travel posts)
Fermentation of Place: Cortes Island, BC
*Visit to miso factory in Toyko
Looking at culture on the Symbiosis Tour 2023
Musings
January 2025 (don’t be too hard on yourself)
*Ferment for the children in your life
Delights and overwhelms of spring (+ 🦫 rehabilitation)
The crazy lady who rushes out in the 🌧️ to build micro-dams
Conversation with our son at Kinward Moves on collaboration with life
Umeboshi and food as touchstones
June Fires in Oregon, slowing down, fermentation chat, 🦫 update
The little garden that (almost) could (+ video demo)
This is great! I’m planning on something similar once I reach a critical mass of posts (or whatever that feels like). Mostly so I can just find stuff again myself!
Kirsten! This is great! Thank you! So useful…..