Fermenting 101

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Fermenting is perhaps the best way to preserve your food and promote better health at the same time. Not only that, there’s an extra dimension of flavor that results from the fermentation process. Here’s everything you need to know about fermenting food. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3Stqudk Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3ulKPtb Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3ShVHjC EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3HNBGNf Connect With Melissa Norris: Melissa K. Norris helps hundreds of thousands of people each month raise their own food and create a homemade and homegrown kitchen, home, garden and barnyard through her website, popular Pioneering Today Podcast, the Pioneering Today Academy and her books. She is a co-founder of the Modern Homesteading Conference as well as owner of Norris Farmstead. Melissa is a 5th generation homesteader and lives with her husband and two kids in their own little house in the big woods in the foothills of the North Cascade Mountains. Pioneering Today Academy Everything Worth Preserving book Blog YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including The Beet Podcast, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	One of the first things I ever fermented was actually kambucha, not a plant that I grew from my garden,
0:19.2	but as I have gardened, I have fermented quite a bit of different contraptions and fun things.
0:24.7	We have Melissa Norris back on the show talking about preserving this week.
0:28.1	She has a book coming out called Everything Worth Preserving.
0:31.4	We've talked about canning Melissa. Fermentation to me seems like almost an even more accessible way to get into this game.
0:38.4	Yeah, you know, aside from using the Root Cellar techniques, which I know we'll be talking about in an upcoming episode.
0:43.2	Fermenting is probably the easiest, like lowest barrier to entry and honestly
0:48.4	lowest risk for the most part of any type of you know food-borne illness in comparison to canning so fermenting is is one of my favorites and also like when we're talking health
1:00.5	I mean fermenting has so many health benefits so yes I am a huge fan of
1:05.2	fermenting yeah I am too and I don't know if you've noticed this and this is a form of
1:10.3	fermentation for sure but for me if I eat sour dough bread versus eat non sour doughed
1:18.0	bread or non fermented bread my digestive track just seems to enjoy it better. It seems to accept it more.
1:24.0	I don't know if that's the same for you.
1:25.8	Yeah, no, 100%. I mean, sourdough is one of those things that not only can it help people
1:31.7	with digestion, especially if you have some type of food sensitivities
1:34.6	to gluten and or to grains. But the other really cool thing is not only can you digest it better,
1:40.6	so usually most people have less bloating or what other issues you know you may have with it
1:44.5	but it actually because it pre-digests so the lactoseless bacteria and the yeast that we get in
1:50.8	wild fermenting which is sourdough, it actually starts to
1:53.6	pre-digest the wheat and it reduces the phytic acid.
1:56.8	So our bodies actually absorb the nutrients in sourdough bread in a way that they can't do for non because it's already
2:07.3	started to pre-digest it for it. So not only like you have easier digestion but
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