Starter Cultures

Make your own vegetable starter with sauerkraut! This starter is perfect for culturing all sorts of different fermented foods. Teaming with probiotics, it's a great replacement for store-bought starter!

How to Activate a Yogurt Starter {with recipes} | The Easy Homestead (.com)

Yogurt starter cultures are carefully balanced so that the strains work together, but different combinations of these bacteria produce different types of yogurt. Even non-dairy milk can be fermented with a starter culture.

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Tempeh Culture

How to Make a Yogurt Starter Culture from Scratch is a step towards self-reliant living. Make yogurt at home without outside inputs.

THE VERSATILITY OF STARTER CULTURES If you have a kombucha starter, you probably use that primarily for kombucha-making. If you have a sourdough starter, then you probably use that for making breads and baked goods. This makes perfect sense, since these cultures are kept and created specifically for that job. But in the kitchen where fermentation happens at rapid pace or sometimes in myriad of ways using a plethora of different foods, it is good to have a grasp of the what-and-how...

A ginger bug is a natural ferment that can be used as a starter culture for homemade sodas, ginger ale, or root beer. Learn to make your own!

Make a strong and tangy sourdough starter using flour, water and natural yogurt. Simple instructions for a healthy sourdough starter to make delicious sourdough bread.

In order to make your own kombucha, you need to have a starter culture otherwise known as a SCOBY (Symbiotic Colony of Bacteria and Yeast). That is the SCOBY floating on top in the picture above. If you have kombucha-making friends who can peel you off a layer from their own culture, or don't mind ordering online and paying about $10 or so, you can get started that way, but if you don't have access to a mother (that's another word