Evita Shen is a passionate permie who is enthusiastic about healthy good food. She's been on a Permaculture journey with her husband for the last 15 years in Australia and in Tuatapere since 2023.

Over time, she's been mastering the art of sourdough bread, fermenting everything she grows for kimchi, sauerkraut, or lacto-veggies, she makes yogurt, cheese and tofu, brews kombucha and more. She loves growing nutrient dense foods and then turning them into delicious, gut-friendly delicacies, as well as promoting the benefits of fermented foods on gut health and overall wellbeing.

Grow Wānaka is thrilled to host Evita again this season beginning with a Lacto-Fermented Vegetables Workshop where she walks us through the health benefits of lacto-fermented veggies, which vegetables work best, the method of lacto-fermenting, and then we'll be making our own jars of LF-veggies to take home. We'll be running a Kombucha Workshop after this one if you'd like to participate in both.

The Workshop will run from 3pm to 4:30pm on Friday Sept 25th at Grow Wānaka Community Garden.

To value Evita's time, travel, preparation, and ingredients plus getting to take a jar of LF veggies home the workshop is $20.00.