Body care
Microbiome-Conscious Body Care
The same microbiome philosophy as our ferments, applied to skin instead of supper. And the baking soda in our deodorants is made right here in Cortland.
Natural Body Oil
Botanical Salt Spray
Natural Dry Shampoo
a note from the kitchen
Good things take time.
Small batches mean some jars disappear fast. If your favorite's gone, it's probably just fermenting, check back in a week or two!
After Sun Oil
Natural Bug Spray
Small batch, big opinions
What makes a Food & Ferments jar different
Every jar we make is fermented in small batches, by hand, in Cortland, New York: raw, unpasteurized, and alive. Where most supermarket kraut is quick-pickled with vinegar in a matter of days, ours ferments slowly, the old way, for weeks or months. No heat-treating, no vinegar, no preservatives, no rushing. Just real vegetables, real salt, real time, and the wild cultures that show up when you let good ingredients do their thing.
Raw & unpasteurized
Nothing is cooked or heat-treated, so the live cultures and their probiotics stay alive all the way to your fork.
Slow, never rushed
We don't rush good food. Our sauerkrauts wild-ferment a patient 4 to 6 months, building the deep, complex tang you cannot fake with vinegar.
Grown down the road
Cabbage from a multi-generational family farm in Central New York, organic beets from Chicory Creek Farm, napa cabbage and cucumbers from Plowbreak and Stick & Stone. Farmers we know by name.
The crossover shelf
From the ferment kitchen to the medicine cabinet
This is the crossover shelf: the same microbiome philosophy as our ferments, applied to skin and body instead of food. We got interested in natural body care while learning to make ferments on the West Coast. Once we figured out how to make a natural deodorant that could stand up to long days in the ferment kitchen, we were hooked, and started selling our Stinky Girl deodorants and body products at the farmers market right alongside the ferments.
The active ingredient in our deodorants, sodium bicarbonate (baking soda), is made right here in our hometown of Cortland, NY. Start with the Lavender Cream Deodorant, and grab the bug spray when summer rolls around.
Living foods
Why the wait matters
We don't rush good food. While mass-produced kraut is quick-pickled with vinegar or hurried out in days, ours undergoes a slow, traditional 4 to 6 month wild fermentation. That patient aging lets waves of beneficial lactic acid bacteria flourish, fully breaking down the cabbage for better bioavailability and developing a rich, complex, tangy flavor.
The long ferment also generates postbiotics: beneficial compounds and organic acids made by the probiotic microbes, associated with gut lining integrity and immune health. Raw, alive, and honest. That is the whole point.
Naturally gluten-free · no added sugar, vinegar, or preservatives · nothing you can't pronounce.
From real kitchens
What people keep telling us
Good to know
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From The Daily Brine
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Local History
Kraut Country
How a dairy valley in Cortland County became the cabbage capital of Central New York.
The Land
What the Glaciers Left Behind
Why the Finger Lakes Region grows cabbage worth fermenting, starting with the last ice age.
History
The Women Who Worked These Fields
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