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Moved to Gascony for new adventures. Fermenting, growing and looking for old textiles to make into quilts and things.

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We’re super excited to announce our autumn weekend workshop - “Culture Club” 🫙✨

This September, we’re turning Maison de Haouret into a living, breathing fermentation lab — and you’re invited.

Join us for a hands-on weekend in the French Pyrenees where we go back to basics (the good kind):
🥕 preserving seasonal produce
🫧 mastering wild fermentation
🍞 working with natural cultures & traditional methods
🌿 learning the skills your grandparents never told you

This isn’t just a workshop — it’s about reclaiming knowledge, slowing down, and reconnecting with how food should be made.

Expect bubbling jars, shared meals, new friends, and plenty of “wait… I made this?!” moments.

Whether you’re already fermenting at home or just fermentation-curious, you’ll leave with the confidence (and cultures) to do it yourself.

📍 Maison de Haouret, French Pyrenees
🗓️ September — limited spaces
🔗 Full details on the website - link in bio

Come for the microbes. Stay for the magic.

#FermentationWorkshop #SelfSufficiency #SlowFoodMovement #LactoFermentation #TraditionalSkills MaisonDeHaouret PyreneesFrance HomesteadingLife FermentedFoods SeasonalLiving LearnByDoing

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Fabulous weekend of fizzing and fermenting females led by the inspiring @tracebridge who greeted @husskade and I with kefir hot cross buns. Have come back laden with good bacteria and knowledge #guthealth #kimchi #scoby #kombucha #kefir #kraut

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Just a few of the apples I prepped today with @the.umbel and @tracebridge - the first stage of making apple cider vinegar is the most laborious for sure!

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Making apple cider vinegar from scratch is a fascinating process, but also hard work!!

Having wrestled these lovelies from the trees in my garden (think apple grabber, ladder, being hit in the forehead by apples) I am going to process them for the first stage of acv-making tomorrow - the alcohol phase.

And @tracebridge and @every.good.thing are coming to play!!

#vinegar #acv #applecidervinegar #apples #harvest #satisfaction #stiffneck #health #herbalvinegars #fireciders #fireciderseason

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Some beautiful times were had in France..

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Another wonderful workshop in the bakery today full of Fermentation inspiration from katie of @tracebridge reminding us all to trust our senses, take time to connect our place within the land around us right down to our gut biota and get on board the endless fun of flavour discovery! I know today (like my first time at one of Katie’s workshops) will have sparked a few people’s journey into the many many! benefits of engaging with local food. And out to Fred @gothelneyfarmer who kindly stepped down from the tractor and spring planting to thread it all together in all we do here at Gothelney farm. So lucky to know these two brilliant people and bring them together for us all to learn. Also very proud that half the workshop were millers and @fieldbakery bread clubbers …the slippery slope of engaging in their grain system led them to more delicious foods, I love that!

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How to make the crispiest kraut, no massaging needed, just an hour of resting while you spend some time doing something else like topping up your (tan) vitamin D levels in the garden. I’ve included a whole section on fermentation in my upcoming Build a Happy Gut course, because although you can always buy them from one of my fellow Guild of Fine Fermenters, it’s good to know how to do it yourself. There are low FODMAP ferments in there too, because they are the ones that are hardest to buy in the shops, but gingery carrot sticks, celeriac kraut and courgette gherkins are perfect for sensitive tums. Check out some of my fellow fermenters tagged here. I’ll open enrolment in Early May 😆

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Since we did an amazing fermenting course @a_circle_of_sisters @tracebridge a couple of weeks ago, it's safe to say we've got the fermentation bug!!
Russell made cheese out of milk kefir over night and this morning I used the whey to make traditional lemonade!
A couple of days ago I made cultured butter and the left over buttermilk to make scones!
Fermented foods are so interesting and delicious!!
I'm so glad we decided to go and learn about this traditional way of preserving precious food!
Do you ferment food, have you got a favourite recipe? 😀

#fermentedfoods
#fermentingisfun #fermentation #guthealth #slipware #pottery #ceramics #northdevon #potterslife

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Day 2 and sadly our last @sian1968 @knapp_house. It’s been a wonderful weekend of fermentation, with generous and engaging tuition from @tracebridge Katie Venner on all things fermented! A strong sense of conviviality, generosity, spaciousness and well-being ran throughout. Good luck @a_circle_of_sisters with your new venture. My memories include cultured butter, coffee kombucha, coconut kefir yogurt, a fabulous range of fruit water kefirs, and delicious veggies fermented.. oh and the labneh with sourdough crackers.. plus the gorgeous meals together. #kombucha #goodgut #spreadingthelove #culturedbutter #mindfulliving #recommended ❤️

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A weekend away from pots ....
Wow, we have learnt so much about ferments and been fed the most amazing feast of absolutely delicious meals all including a fermented element... Such a beautiful setting, and it's not over yet, more amazing things to eat and drink and learn this morning.
Can't wait!
Gotta get those microbes!!

#fermentedfoods
#ferment #retreat #learningcrafts #foodmedicine #potterslife #pottery #ceramics #slipware #somerset #saurkraut

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