Signup for Our First Fermentation Membership Share (Oct/Nov/Dec 2024) limited to 30 households

Nourishing our Counterculture Fermentation Community with a Membership Share

In order to grow into our next iteration, we are offering a deeper connection for 30 Lexington / Fayette County households to commit to a monthly Fermentation Share in support of building & nourishing the Counterculture Community.

Who are we? Counterculture started in 2018 around our kitchen counter bringing together cabbage, fresh vegetables & spices with sea salt to create nourishing raw and alive fermented vegetables with a desire to nourish & build our local community.

How can you join? The cost for our first 3 month season is $55 / month or a one time fee of $150 for Oct-Dec 2024 season. You can join by clicking the subscribe button any where on our website (including on this page) and pay for your membership using our secure autopay platform through stripe.

What do you get? All Counterculture Fermentation Community Members will receive and share in the following benefits:

• A monthly box of fermented vegetables and produce including:
  • One (1) pint of your choice of our flagship ferments: Jalapeño Kimchi, Signature Kraut, or Smoky Kraut – You can email us at counterculture.ky@gmail.com with your choice after you sign up
  • Two to three (2-3) pints of our regular & seasonal ferments: Lemon Dill, Sunny Kraut, Golden Kraut, Naked Kraut, Curtido, Red Miso Kraut, Gingered Carrots
  • Four (4) or so half-pints that could include fermented ketchup, mustards, hot sauces, dips, relishes, spicy pastes, chutneys, garlic honey, dressings and even fermented crackers & heaps of other ferments we’ve been wanting to create
• Two (2) hands-on workshops in our Fermentation Kitchen in Lexington, KY (In October to make Naked Kraut & in December to make holiday Orange Apple Cran Kraut)
• We will be sharing recipes and ideas of how to eat fermented foods and building a community together that we all can learn and grow from
• You will be supporting Seedleaf as we partner & purchase their locally grown produce.
• You will be nourishing your health, our local community, and local economy

How does the pickup work? The pickup will be the second Friday of each Month (Oct 11, Nov 8, Dec 13) from 9 am - 1 pm and from 4 pm - 6pm at our Fermentation Kitchen location at 128 York Street, Lexington, KY 40508. We can also offer members a delivery on the following Monday for an additional fee.

Tell us about the 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!

The Kentucky Farm Share Coalition reports these health benefits of

participating in CSA​:

• Increased vegetable consumption
• Decreased consumption of processed snacks & meals
• Decrease in doctor’s visits
• Decrease in expenditures on prescription drugs
• Food preparation skills improved
• Overall increase in self-reported health

We would add that Community Supported Fermentation also provides these benefits:

• Increased consumption of pro-biotics to promote gut health
• Nutrient dense vegetables with increased bioavailability of vitamins & nutrients that are more digestible
• Building a more sustainable community by supporting one another and partners like Seedleaf working to nourish our local community