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Our Products

Kimchi
$13.00

SMALL BATCH MADE

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GUT-FRIENDLY

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SMALL BATCH MADE 〰️ GUT-FRIENDLY 〰️

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Come find us at select farmer’s markets and retail locations in Chicago!

Pick up a jar of your favorite fermented veggies, or take home a delicious roll of freshly made kimbap at our farmer’s market booths!

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An introduction

Co-creators, Alex and Jenny, started fermenting their food together over a decade ago. What started as a curiosity evolved into a fascination with making connections between gut health, the soil our food grows in, and respecting ancestral practice.

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Fermentation

Considered one of the oldest methods of food preservation, lacto-fermentation utilizes lactic acid bacteria (present on the skins of all fruits and vegetables), which converts sugars into lactic acid.

The resulting acidic environment prevents any growth of harmful bacteria, making it one of the safest methods of food preservation.

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