PRACTICAL PRESERVING @ HOME: KIMCHI

with ELLEN SCHINDLER

Wednesday 7 February - 5.30pm to 8.00pm (2.5 hours)

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.

What to expect:

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, daikon, chili, and other ingredients.

Ellen will guide you to bring everything together to create your kimchi, and you'll have a chance to taste the result. Of course, as you'll learn, ferments can improve with age as the beneficial bacteria continue to ferment the fresh ingredients to make a more mature, nutritious, and delicious kimchi over time.

Tickets include: theoretical and practical instruction in making kimchi; access to ingredients, equipment, tastings, and a portion of finished kimchi to take home

What to bring:

Essential:

a small glass jar or sealable container (to take home some kimchi)
a hair covering (for food hygiene; like a hat or bandana)
a refillable water bottle (to stay hydrated)
weather appropriate gear (to keep comfortable on the farm)

Recommended:

a pair of single use gloves (if you have a pair; nitrile, not latex!)
a pen and notepad (to take notes, if you like)

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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. She is also a committed volunteer who has been instrumental in establishing the Homestead and the Dignan Street Community gardens in Pt Chevalier and has been involved in planting and maintaining fruit trees in parks and grass berms across Sandringham.

Ellen loves to indulge her interests and push boundaries of what she can accomplish at home, applying knowledge and skills to put environmental values into practise for the benefit of health, community, and planet. 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!

In this workshop, Ellen is looking forward to sharing with you her experience in homemade healthy options for delicious, nutritious kai, and encouraging you to explore the process for yourself -- hopefully for you to find that it’s good fun and a lot easier than it looks!