Lately, I have done a lot of lacto-fermentation on my blog! From pickles to ginger carrots to how to make whey itself; so I thought, how about a fermentation giveaway?
Here’s what one lucky reader could win:
The Giveaway Goods
1. “Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods” by Sandor Katz
With a foreword by Sally Fallon, author of “Nourishing Traditions“, this book is a must-read to get started on any real food fermentation journey. Sandor Katz’s book is full of information on traditionally fermenting foods and the amazing health benefits you will reap from fermentation, with a collection of easy and diverse recipes that will keep your kitchen full of fermentation fun!
You will never not find a use for these jars! They can help you make large batches of lacto-fermented foods, milk or water kefir, sprouting seeds…they can help you ferment anything you can dream of and be used for so much more. These are invaluable in a real foodie’s kitchen!
3. 1 lb. Bag of Celtic Grey Sea Salt
I adore this salt. I will put it in anything! It also helps to make a perfectly flavored lacto-fermented food. This salt in unrefined and has all the naturally occurring elements needed to keep your body nourished with the proper amounts of mineral. It’s from Europe’s coast and is dried by the sun and wind to maintain its natural mineral content.
What is Lacto-Fermentation?
Lacto-fermentation has been used by traditional people to preserve their food long before we had ways to chill our food, use artificial preservatives, or can with high heat. There was a time when just a little liquid whey or salt was added to the food to start producing lacto-bacillus bacteria cultures. These cultures help preserve the food via lactic acid which adds lots more vitamins content and nutrients to the food as well as wonderful probiotics that will allow your good gut bacteria to flourish!
Giveaway
There are several ways you can earn entries to win:
- The mandatory entry is to sign up for GMN via the subscribe tool on the top right of this screen, you will then get updates about real food and future giveaways! (worth 5 entries)
- Read about the prizes and then leave comments in the widget below about each prize, each worth 5 entries a piece!
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- Tweet about this giveaway, like it describes below in the widget to earn two extra entries, and you can do this once a day!
- Pin this giveaway to Pinterest to earn two extra entries, and you can do this once a day also!
The giveaway will end at midnight February 26th, 2013 and the winner will be announced on February 27th, 2013! If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
Cheerio!
Katie
Sources:
1. Food Renegade: Are Mason Jar Ferments Safe?
2. WAPF: Lacto-Fermentation
This post is a part of Simple Lives Thursday, Keeping it Real Thursday, Thank Your Body Thursday, Fight Back Friday, Link Love, Fight Back Friday.
I think the book wild fermentation would be cool to read. I’ve done 2 lacto fermented products: one if mixed veggies and one of sauerkraut. I think their yummy but I’m still trying to get my 1 yr old to eat them. I love mason jars! They’re my favorite. Do you prefer the grey sea salt over pink? Thanks
I am so happy you are excited about the giveaway!
I personally love the Celtic Grey Sea Salt but Himalayan Pink Salt is just as delicious and I believe would work just as well. Good luck in the giveaway!
– Katie
The rafflecopter didn;t ask for my pinterest name so I thought I would post the link here. Thanks for the giveaway.
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Good luck! Thanks for entering!
Book – I’m just learning about fermintation so I’m super excited to be able to have a whole book on the topic!
Jarst – I’d love to have everything I need to get started. Thanks for putting this prize together!!
Good luck and I am so happy you stopped by!
- Katie
Salt – we don’t have this salt in a store near us so I’d be excited to try it! thanks for selecting the finest of ingredients for this giveaway.
I am ready to get started with fermentation!!! Some places make it look so complicated with enormously expensive containers etc! Your set up looks great! Let’s do this!
Happy to host it! Thanks for stopping by!
I have had Wild Fermentation on my Amazon wish list for the last year! I would love to try new things. Right now I do kombucha, ketchup, and veggies. I still have so much to try. I love mason jars and try to collect the hard to find sizes. I use them for EVERYTHING but find that the quart size is my most used size. I have never tried the gray sea salt but love pink so I would be super stoked to try it out! Thanks for the chance! This is such a great giveaway!
It’s such an amazing book and fermenting is so much fun!
Good luck in the giveaway!
What a great giveaway. I’ve just become interested in fermentation and this would really help me get started. Thanks!
This is definitely a great way to start – good luck!!
What a great giveaway. I’ve just become interested in fermentation and this would really help me get started. Thanks!
Hope everyone has a nice day:)
Thanks for the giveaway =) I love your blog! Wanted to ask, did you get another Scoby?
Happy to host it and glad you stopped by! I am still doing some research on the best scoby to buy online but wanted to see if my friend had an extra one this weekend. On the hunt for a good one!
Good luck in the giveaway!!
Katie
I have never fermented but I WANT TO DESPERATELY!! I’m a newbie with trying to follow a Nourished Traditions way of life. So far, I’ve gotten cooking with coconut oil down and just signed up for raw milk through a herd share and going to begin making butter with the cream I’ll be getting with my milk. I’m baking bread with sprouted flour (I don’t know how to soak my grains yet), eating grass-fed meats and pastured eggs and been eating more and more veggies everyday!! Fermentation and soaking are my next steps!
I am a newby at fermentation but I am really interested in preserving more food this way. I have made yogurt and love it, but there seems to be the never ending amount of things you can ferment!!! The book looks very interesting and you can never have too many mason jars or celtic salt!!
Katie,
Friends can enter, right?? I haven’t done any fermentation lately but hope to soon and when I do I will be sure to follow your good advice on using the Celtic Grey salt instead of…other…salt.
Janina
Heck yes you can, Janina!
That…other…salt is so “ick!” Wishing you lots of luck in the giveaway and future Happy Fermenting! We must have a fermenting party one of these days, eh?
See you soon!
Katie
My brother introduced me to fermenting..love it!!!!! I grow a huge garden..so this year will be a good year for fermenting. Thanks…
I keep saying I need to start fermenting some vegetables but haven’t gotten around to it yet, so thank you for offering this kit.
I’m off to college soon and have been looking to get supplies for lacto-fermentation. These are great! I have specifically been looking for recipes, and I’m so glad to hear the book has some! And I need lots of quart-sized mason jars. Also, I have been wanting to get some celtic sea salt! This giveaway is perfect!
Good luck!
Wow, what a great giveaway. I have my first batch of kombucha brewing at home right now. I want to find a recipe for chow chow. My husband grew up on it and I can’t seem to find it in California. Just found your blog, so now I can go back through all of your posts.
I would LOVE to win this! I have already read the book and it was great. Not to mention, the salt is the best salt I have ever tasted, and who doesn’t need more jars in their crunchy kitchen?
Hi, what a great idea to have a give-away for something so healthy as lactofermentation.
I haven’t read the book “Wild Fermentation” but I am starting to read up on the whole thing – I know I will use the Mason jars soooooo much and the sea salt will be invaluable in beginning fermenting!!!
thankyou so much!
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I have been wanting to try to ferment things for a while now, I just asked a co-worker last week to teach me how to can. I would the book “Wild Fermentation”. I need someway to learn how to do this! The salt sounds wonderful and can’t wait to try some and who could not use mason jars?
Thanks for the opportunity!
I am working to start our new Homestead to be self-sufficient like I was raised. We have had the great opportunity to move back to the country, but our funds are low. I’m really hoping that I can win this giveaway so that I can have more resources at hand for our garden produce this year.