Are you a small business, an artist, or local expert interested in participating? Contact: fermentpittsburgh@gmail.com
Local, Small Business Fermentation Artisans featuring fermented foods and hand-made goods.
Make-Your Own Activities and demos: Sauerkraut, Shoyu, mozzarella and more!
Fermented Food Contest/ Culture Swap: Do you have the best kimchi is Pittsburgh? Or is sourdough bread your butter? Bring enough to sample and share by Noon on Sunday. Have extra cultures? Bring some to share! Contest voting and sampling all day with awards at 4pm. More information.
Fementer Olympics: Three events to challenge who is the Fermenter Champion. Winner gets a Cultures Kit. Learn more.
Family Fun: complete a Fermented Bingo card to be entered in a drawing for prizes! Peruse books or do some coloring in the “Ferment Library Pop-up” by the Carnegie Library. Craft your own “microorganism”- sponsored by The Center for Creative Reuse.
Awards: Fermenter Olympics, Fermented Food Contest, Mold Pageant, and Bingo drawing.
Performances: Watch Food and fermented acts, plays, songs, and comedy throughout the day. General festival attendees are encouraged to dress as their favorite food!
Growing & Fermenting with the Seasons: With support from Grow Pittsburgh, join local farmers to get the most out of our growing seasons! Expert growers will be on hand to help you make a garden plan, present plant varieties best for our region, and help with seasonal sourcing. Share your favorite seasonal recipes on our “Fermenting with the Seasons” timeline.
Workshops: Coming soon.
The Third Pittsburgh Fermentation Festival 2018
Open-to-all Fermented Food Contest, many categories
Have you got the best kimchi is Pittsburgh? Or is sourdough bread your butter? Bring enough to sample and share by Noon on Sunday. Voting and sampling all day with awards at 4pm. More information.
Pittsburgh’s beloved Fermentation artisans
Visit with our returning favorites and many new faces to share their passion-led fermentation products.
Workshops
The First Second ever Fermenter Olympics
Will you be the first-ever Fermenting Olympic Champion? Good luck, Mike The Winner is tough to beat. Take a chance and compete in a series of events to challenge your fermenting skills. More info.
The infamous “Let’s Get Comfortable with Mold” table
New to this year: Vote for winners of the Mold Pageant!
Make-your-own Kraut
Get ready to chop, salt, mash- and take your own home to ferment!
Culture Swap
Bring your extra kefir grains, kombucha scoby, yogurt, sourdough starter, to pass along!
Fermenting with the Seasons
Join area farmers in learning how to grow and preserver with the seasons. Bring your favorite recipes to share.
Sausage-Making
On-going demonstration with Franktuary
Gardening for Food Production
Love your tiny garden and the charished tomatoes and peppers? What would it take to begin to feed yourself from such a small plot? Our farmers are here to help you!
And so on and soforth and so much more! Check back often for updated details.
Interested in participating in this year’s festival?
- To volunteer: fermentpittsburgh@gmail.com
- To perform, show art of related, at the festival or the festival variety show (Sat 17th): fermentpittsburgh@gmail.com
- To be a vendor, presenter, demoer, or something of tabling nature send inquiry to fermentpittsburgh@gmail.com
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Ferment Pittsburgh is a project created to influence the growth of fermentation culture in our area. We offer classes, put on the annual Pittsburgh Fermentation Festival, and do activities to promote a better connection with harmoniously natural living. Please contact us with any questions regarding fermentation and culturing, whether you need advice or are looking for some starters.
