Instructor

Austin Durant has been fermenting food for fifteen years. In 2011 he founded Fermenters Club, whose mission is to improve people’s lives by teaching them why and how to make and enjoy fermented foods; and to create communities that are connected through their guts.

Austin has taught hundreds of fermented food workshops such as sauerkraut, pickles, kimchi, kombucha, miso, and sourdough bread.

He leads public workshops and private team-building workshops for corporations and other small groups, and hosts multi-day fermentation intensive workshops. Austin has spoken at numerous conferences in the U.S. and Europe.

In 2024, he published his first book, Fearless Fermenting.

When not stuffing things into jars, Austin enjoys gardening, practicing permaculture, cooking, yoga, writing, and studying cosmology, new physics and the natural world.