Introduction to Fermenting Vegetables

Participants will learn the basics of fermentation, as a natural process that preserves food and increases the presence of gut-friendly bacteria. There will be an opportunity to taste at least five seasonal ferments and participants will make a classic sauerkraut (fermented cabbage) to take home. 

Themes discussed

• Food preservation

• Reducing food waste

• Gut health

• Seasonal food & growing fruits / veggies

Kelley works alongside her husband primarily offering health and wellbeing programmes both in-person and online to individuals, businesses and groups. Their work focuses on supporting people to make achievable and sustainable changes to their personal health practice. They fully recognise the health benefits that can occur when people spend time outdoors, and they firmly believe in cultivating a reciprocal relationship with the natural world to facilitate holistic healing. 

Kelley’s specific area of interest is in community gardening, growing at home and fermenting. 

Kelley coordinated a community garden on Drumnaph Nature Reserve near Maghera where she worked as a manager from 2013 - 2022. She also delivered a project called Growing Resilience across the Mid Ulster area for the charity, Social Farms & Gardens between 2022 - 2024 facilitating events for community gardeners to skill-share and connect. 

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