Welcome to episode 15 of the Simple Farmhouse Life Podcast.

Today we're going to talk about getting started with fermented foods in your home.

So everything from fermented vegetables to dairy and how to incorporate it in a way that feels easy and not overwhelming.

My name is Lisa, a mom of six and creator of the blog and YouTube channel Farmhouse on Boone. Join me as I share and an entrepreneur life along the way. I get this email a lot and DM where people say

where should I start so you do all of these things in your kitchen like make

sourdough and ferment your vegetables and make yogurt. I'm just

trying to transition out of getting takeout every night. Where do I even begin? I

totally completely understand how this world of making food from scratch and

fermenting is overwhelming. I remember whenever I first got married cooking in

general was new to me. I wasn't even near ready to start baking my own bread and fermenting

sourcrowd. The place that I started was just by getting some recipes. I

used to be subscribed to the real simple magazine. I remember they had an article where there was all these

different recipes that you could create with the same ingredients and I started there and

just got a basic understanding of which herbs and spices

taste good with which meats and how to cook a chicken properly. I didn't get

into fermenting foods for probably two or three years into marriage.

It took me a while to feel comfortable enough with the basic ingredients to even get to that point.

The first place that I started incorporating fermented foods into our family was with dairy.

So when Ruthie was about 18 months, I started learning about the benefits of raw milk and

lucky for me there was a dairy right in our town actually just

about 10 miles north but they delivered to our town that we lived in and they were

awesome raw dairy they also made raw cheese and so it was really easy for me to find access to that and I started making Milk Kiefer.

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