Practical Preseving at Home: Kimchi

PRACTICAL PRESERVING AT HOME: KIMCHI
with Ellen Schindler

Ellen Schindler is a passionate gardener and community organiser. Since 2006 she has nurtured her home garden in Sandringham into a productive food system with about 55 fruit trees of all types and sizes, beehives, chooks, and vegetable patches. Ellen believes that healthy food should be accessible to everyone, and teaching hands-on DIY workshops is one of her favourite ways to achieve this goal!

Keen on a way to boost flavour in your food while helping improve gut health? What about with a delectable, spicy condiment that you can add to almost any meal?

Join expert tutor Ellen Schindler at Kelmarna Community Farm for this crash course in kimchi, and find out how easy it is to make your own fermented kimchi at home. In this workshop, you'll learn about the ingredients and the recipe, you'll go through the process step by step, and you'll have a chance to take a portion of the result home to share and enjoy. Ellen will begin the session with information on how to create a basic ferment, before you get hands-on to prepare the cabbage, choko, daikon, chili, and other ingredients.

Tickets include:

• theoretical and practical instruction in making kimchi
• access to ingredients, equipment and tastings
• a portion of finished kimchi to take home

What to bring:

• a small glass jar or sealable container to take home some kimchi
• a hair covering for food hygiene like a hat or bandana
• a pair of single use gloves (if you have a pair; nitrile, not latex!)

This event is part of EcoFest, an annual month-long festival taking place Saturday 22 March – Tuesday 22 April 2025. EcoMatters, Kaipātiki Project, Beautification Trust and Waiheke Resources Trust are teaming up to collectively showcase all that Tāmaki Makaurau has to offer in the sustainability space. Visit ecofest.org.nz and join us

At Kelmarna, we strive to make education accessible for everyone. So, where possible, we offer a 35% discount on our workshops to valid Community Services Card holders. If you book one of these tickets, please email us a copy of your valid Community Services Card, and remember to bring it along to theworkshop. Please note that this option does not include Super Gold Card holders.


We look forward to seeing you on the farm soon!
Kelmarna Community Farm Workshops Program.


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