Make: Kit Reviews

You don’t have to depend on commercial growers or expensive powders to get your spirulina fix. With this kit, you can have it fresh and alive, anytime. I made a few modifications to help mine grow faster and prevent clogging, like replacing the intake line with rubber tubing and swapping the bubble wand for a […]

Food: food, spirulina, superfood

While not exactly a “kit,” Cultures for Health has everything you need for making sourdough bread: 15 starters from all over the world, clear instructions, and a great selection of useful bread-making tools, like cookbooks, dough scrapers, bread bags, and baker’s blades for scoring that classic ridge down the middle of your loaf. I experimented […]

Food: baking, bread, bread-making, food, sourdough

To make sauerkraut, all you really need is cabbage, salt, and a jar with a lid, but you can make your life much easier with a mandoline slicer, vegetable starter culture, and fermenting crock from Cultures for Health. (A copy of Wild Fermentation by Sandor Katz will only help the cause.) They carry charming crocks […]

Food: fermentation, food, sauerkraut, vegetables