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Gut Health: Rewild Your Microbiome

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Support Gut Health with Fermentation at River Cottage

Spend the day learning how to naturally support your gut health through the art of fermentation at River Cottage, guided by expert tutor and author Rachel de Thample.

Your day begins by exploring how fermented foods can transform digestion and bring new depth of flavour to everyday meals. You will discover how to combine ingredients for better nutrient absorption and learn about the powerful role of wild and seasonal foods in supporting a healthy gut.

Rachel, author of the award-winning River Cottage Fermentation Handbook, Winter Wellness, and Teas and Tonics, will guide you through a series of practical fermentation techniques. You will make your own ferments and discover how a diverse, plant-rich diet can restore balance to the microbiome and promote lasting well-being.

This hands-on fermentation course at River Cottage will leave you inspired to bring more gut-friendly foods into your cooking. You will take away the skills and confidence to create delicious, living foods that boost energy, enhance flavour and make every meal more vibrant.

Is this course suitable for me?  We recommend this course for participants aged 12 and up. Under-16s must be accompanied by a paying adult. These guidelines are in place to ensure the safety, comfort, and enjoyment of all our guests. Please feel free to get in touch if you have any questions or need more information.

ARRIVE

If you choose to walk, enjoy a 10–15 minute stroll from the car park along scenic pathways to the farm, taking in the stunning valley views. A Land Rover lift is available in poor weather or if you prefer not to walk. Once at the cookery school, meet Rachel and start the day with tea, coffee, and a breakfast snack.

SESSION ONE

You’ll start the day with a tour around the farm to gather seasonal ingredients and forage for wild foods while learning the benefits of gathering a diverse range of ingredients. You’ll also learn about the healing power of herbs and how to use them to support gut health.

SESSION TWO

You’ll also learn how to construct creative and nutritionally enriched salad dressings, which you’ll use to make a salad with fermented pickles, sprouts and microgreens. You’ll also learn about food combining, pick up some clever knife skills, and other tips and tricks to maximise digestion and nutrient intake.

LUNCH

Enjoy a two-course lunch prepared by our River Cottage chefs using ingredients from our Kitchen Garden. Sample seasonal ferments, a probiotic salad, and finish with herbal tea and tahini fudge with dried lemons.

SESSION THREE

After lunch, you’ll learn all about sprouting and easy-to-grow micro greens and how they boost flavour, texture and nutritional benefits of your meals. You’ll taste an exciting palate of delicious flavours and take home a sprouting and micro green project to start at home.

SESSION FOUR

You’ll make a seasonal ferment such as sauerkraut, kimchi or lacto-fermented pickles using herbs and produce from the garden which you can take home. During the session you’ll learn more about how to use fermented foods to boost gut health as well as flavour in dishes.

SESSION FIVE

You’ll make a sweet treat without refined sugar which we’ll enjoy with homemade teas and tonics. You’ll be able to take some of your sweet offering home to share with loved ones (or keep you going through the week).

DEPARTURE

You’ll have time to chat with fellow participants and the River Cottage team before wrapping up at 5pm. Take home a jar of fermented vegetables, a nourishing sweet treat, seeds to sprout at home, and a recipe pack full of tips and recipes from the day.

Course highlights

  • Get hands-on with expert Rachel de Thample learning creative ways to incorporate fermented foods into your meals
  • Explore the River Cottage farm and find inspiration from the seasonal produce around you
  • Discover probiotics and prebiotics and how to use them to support a thriving gut
  • Explore the role of wild foods in gut health and overall well-being
  • Find out why eating greens is essential for health and how to boost their nutrient absorption
  • See how pulses and grains can be made easier to digest while improving their flavour and texture
  • Practice sprouting, growing microgreens, and fermenting at home and understand why these practices are so beneficial
  • Create delicious, gut-friendly recipes designed to ease inflammation and nourish the body
  • Enjoy a two-course lunch featuring fermented creations prepared by the River Cottage chefs
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Rachel De Thample in the River Cottage kitchen teaching a class.
A plate of fermented vegetable dish served on a table.
A white farmhouse named River Cottage with a lush garden in front.
A table displaying an assortment of fresh vegetables, including carrots, peppers, and leafy greens.
A group of people collaborating in a the River Cottage Cookery School.
Rachel De Thample in the River Cottage kitchen teaching a class.
A plate of fermented vegetable dish served on a table.
A white farmhouse named River Cottage with a lush garden in front.

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Support Gut Health with Fermentation at River Cottage

Spend the day learning how to naturally support your gut health through the art of fermentation at River Cottage, guided by expert tutor and author Rachel de Thample.

Your day begins by exploring how fermented foods can transform digestion and bring new depth of flavour to everyday meals. You will discover how to combine ingredients for better nutrient absorption and learn about the powerful role of wild and seasonal foods in supporting a healthy gut.

Rachel, author of the award-winning River Cottage Fermentation Handbook, Winter Wellness, and Teas and Tonics, will guide you through a series of practical fermentation techniques. You will make your own ferments and discover how a diverse, plant-rich diet can restore balance to the microbiome and promote lasting well-being.

This hands-on fermentation course at River Cottage will leave you inspired to bring more gut-friendly foods into your cooking. You will take away the skills and confidence to create delicious, living foods that boost energy, enhance flavour and make every meal more vibrant.

Is this course suitable for me?  We recommend this course for participants aged 12 and up. Under-16s must be accompanied by a paying adult. These guidelines are in place to ensure the safety, comfort, and enjoyment of all our guests. Please feel free to get in touch if you have any questions or need more information.

ARRIVE

If you choose to walk, enjoy a 10–15 minute stroll from the car park along scenic pathways to the farm, taking in the stunning valley views. A Land Rover lift is available in poor weather or if you prefer not to walk. Once at the cookery school, meet Rachel and start the day with tea, coffee, and a breakfast snack.

SESSION ONE

You’ll start the day with a tour around the farm to gather seasonal ingredients and forage for wild foods while learning the benefits of gathering a diverse range of ingredients. You’ll also learn about the healing power of herbs and how to use them to support gut health.

SESSION TWO

You’ll also learn how to construct creative and nutritionally enriched salad dressings, which you’ll use to make a salad with fermented pickles, sprouts and microgreens. You’ll also learn about food combining, pick up some clever knife skills, and other tips and tricks to maximise digestion and nutrient intake.

LUNCH

Enjoy a two-course lunch prepared by our River Cottage chefs using ingredients from our Kitchen Garden. Sample seasonal ferments, a probiotic salad, and finish with herbal tea and tahini fudge with dried lemons.

SESSION THREE

After lunch, you’ll learn all about sprouting and easy-to-grow micro greens and how they boost flavour, texture and nutritional benefits of your meals. You’ll taste an exciting palate of delicious flavours and take home a sprouting and micro green project to start at home.

SESSION FOUR

You’ll make a seasonal ferment such as sauerkraut, kimchi or lacto-fermented pickles using herbs and produce from the garden which you can take home. During the session you’ll learn more about how to use fermented foods to boost gut health as well as flavour in dishes.

SESSION FIVE

You’ll make a sweet treat without refined sugar which we’ll enjoy with homemade teas and tonics. You’ll be able to take some of your sweet offering home to share with loved ones (or keep you going through the week).

DEPARTURE

You’ll have time to chat with fellow participants and the River Cottage team before wrapping up at 5pm. Take home a jar of fermented vegetables, a nourishing sweet treat, seeds to sprout at home, and a recipe pack full of tips and recipes from the day.

Course highlights

  • Get hands-on with expert Rachel de Thample learning creative ways to incorporate fermented foods into your meals
  • Explore the River Cottage farm and find inspiration from the seasonal produce around you
  • Discover probiotics and prebiotics and how to use them to support a thriving gut
  • Explore the role of wild foods in gut health and overall well-being
  • Find out why eating greens is essential for health and how to boost their nutrient absorption
  • See how pulses and grains can be made easier to digest while improving their flavour and texture
  • Practice sprouting, growing microgreens, and fermenting at home and understand why these practices are so beneficial
  • Create delicious, gut-friendly recipes designed to ease inflammation and nourish the body
  • Enjoy a two-course lunch featuring fermented creations prepared by the River Cottage chefs
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  1. Jeanette
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    Great food and all fresh and local, fabulous staff, we picked up plenty of tips

  2. Claire
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    Excellent course. Rachel is charming and her knowledge is encyclopaedic. A really enjoyable day and I learnt so much and feel inspired to re-wild my gut biome!

  3. George
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    Brilliant chef for the day, it was amazing thankyou, and really appreciate the hard work and effort that must go on behind the scenes everyday to organise all you do, as well as to do the day itself thankyou.

  4. Diana
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    “Our chef teacher was enthusiastic, friendly and very helpful and informed. I love cooking and I really enjoyed myself. However long you’ve been cooking you can always learn new things and the dishes we made were all delicious.”

  5. Hannah
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    Rachel de Thamples knowledge is amazing and her teaching skills are brilliant, she is very open and enthusiastic.

  6. Rose
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    Rachel De Thample is a superb teacher, absolutely dripping with knowledge and tips.
    An excellent day. And with notes to refer to when memory doesn’t quite hold everything.

  7. Rose
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    “I forgive the fact that, for me, the workshop is a high price because it is so well executed and I felt totally supported in my learning.”

  8. Hannah
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    “Rachel de Thamples knowledge is amazing and her teaching skills are brilliant, she is very open and enthusiastic.”

  9. Zoe
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    Well organised, relaxed, great environment to learn – I enjoyed the course and it was inspiring too!