Counterculture Partnership with Seedleaf

Counterculture and Seedleaf are partnering beginning this year to bring nourishing fermented vegetables and produce to local markets and households in Fayette County, Kentucky.  We share a commitment to work together with our community and each other to develop and nurture just, equitable and healthy interdependent connections between our land, the food we grow, our bodies and even the microbial communities living in our soil.  Counterculture will be purchasing vegetables and produce grown largely at Seedleaf’s new Headwater farmland, located at the headwaters of the Elkhorn Creek in NE Lexington, KY and then fermenting this locally grown produce using an ancient and largely forgotten food way, Lacto-Fermentation.  Our ancestors knew how important this was for producing healthy nourishing communities. Fermentation is important not only for preserving vegetables and promoting gut health, it also helps to increase the bioavailability of vitamins & nutrients in vegetables for better digestion. Happy farmers, happy fermenters and happy guts - this is a relationship where every(body) wins!

You can purchase Counter Culture Ferments at the Lexington Farmer’s Market and Good Foods Co-op in the dairy aisle. Check out www.Seedleaf.org to learn more about their work in central Kentucky of nourishing communities through growing and sharing food.