Food & Ferment ~ Homestead and Chill

Food & Ferment

Feeling hungry? Or looking for ways to preserve your harvest? Here you’ll find plenty of ideas – including seasonal garden-to-table recipes, tutorials to preserve food, make kombucha, bake sourdough, and more. Browse popular recipes and categories below.

Preserving Recipes

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Learn how to preserve your harvest with easy tutorials on dehydrating, pickling, freezing, fermenting and more.

A white ramekin is full of cowboy candy candied jalapeños. The ramekin is on a small cutting board along with a few slices of jalapeños, two whole jalapeños are around the surrounding area as well.

Best Cowboy Candy Recipe (Candied Jalapeños) Canning or Refrigerator

Two quart mason jars are filled with long spears of pickles. Surrounding the jars are onion, cucumber, fresh dill, and peppercorns.

Best Refrigerator Pickles Recipe: Quick, Easy, Crunchy Dill Pickles

Two rows of pint mason jars stacked atop one another with four jars on the bottom and three jars on top full of roasted tomato sauce.

The Best Easy Roasted Tomato Sauce Recipe (Freeze or Can)

A white ramekin container is full of zucchini relish. A few canned jars of relish lay around the outside of the ramekin.

The Best Zucchini Relish Recipe (Canning, Freezer or Refrigerator)

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Sourdough

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Browse our delicious sourdough recipes and helpful tutorials, including tips on caring for sourdough starter.

Simple No-Knead Sourdough Bread Recipe

How to Feed Your Sourdough Starter + Storage & Care Tips

Easy Sourdough Focaccia Bread Recipe (Overnight or Same Day)

Ginger molasses sourdough cookies are cooling on a wire cooling rack while a couple cookies sit on a small plat. two slices of sourdough pumpkin bread are resting on a plat and a pie with a sourdough lattice crust is resting on a wire cooling rack.

15 Best Sourdough Discard Recipes: Ways to Use Starter Discard

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Want to get started baking sourdough?

Bring Home a Starter Here

We offer organic sourdough starter in our s hop! With easy step-by-step instructions and recipes included, it’s essentially foolproof. Join the thousands of happy bakers using our starter culture and get started baking your own delicious gut-healthy sourdough bread today!

Seasonal Eats

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Enjoy our favorite simple and seasonal garden-to-table recipes, freezer-friendly soups, plant-based recipes, and more.

An oval shaped baking dish is full of baked artichokes that have been cut in half and topped with slices of lemon.

Oven-Roasted Artichoke Recipe: Easy Delicious Baked Artichokes

A bowl full of pumpkin chili garnished with avocado slices and cilantro. Surrounding the bowl are a few slices of sourdough bread, roasted halves of whole pumpkin, and a half of an avocado.

Easy Roasted Pumpkin 3-Bean Chili Recipe (Vegetarian and Vegan)

A white bowl with handles is full of tomato soup. Surrounding the bowl are fresh tomatoes, basil leaves, and a slice of bread.

Creamy Roasted Tomato Basil Soup with Fresh Tomatoes (Vegan)

A dish of zucchini fritters stacked high are surrounded by a few fresh squash.

13 Must-Try Zucchini Recipes: Clever Ways to Use Zucchini

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Fermented Foods

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Your gut will love these probiotic-rich fermented recipes!

A large glass crock with a red and white cloth lid is halfway full of apple chunks that are floating in sugar water. A few whole apples are surrounding the crock.

Preserving Apples: How to Make Homemade Apple Cider Vinegar

Easy Fermented Hot Sauce Recipe: How to Ferment Peppers

A pint jar full of garlic cloves and honey is sitting on top of a small wood cutting board. Bulbs and cloves of garlic surround the area.

Easy Fermented Garlic Honey Recipe + Benefits and Uses

Fermented Pickles Recipe (How to Make Lacto-Fermented Cucumber Pickles)

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Kombucha

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Learn how to brew your own bubbly kombucha at home!

How to Make Kombucha 101: Kombucha Recipe and Brewing Basics

Kombucha Carbonation Tips: How to Bottle, Flavor, & Second Ferment

The 18 Best Seasonal Homemade Kombucha Flavors for Second Ferment

Brewing Homemade Kombucha: Supplies List

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Holiday Recipes

Homemade Fresh Cranberry Sauce with Maple, Orange and Ginger

Easy Vegetarian or Vegan Mushroom Gravy Recipe

Sweet Potato (Yam) Apple & Fresh Cranberry Bake with Walnuts

A dining table is full of a number of different food dishes in various serving dishes and there are people seated surrounding the table.

20+ Satisfying Vegan & Vegetarian Holiday Recipes Everyone Will Love

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