Pay What You Can: Make Your Own Pickles & Sauerkraut!

Join plant-based chef and nutritional therapist Asa and discover the delicious art of fermentation. Learn to make crunchy pickles and tangy sauerkraut from scratch, with plenty of tips and troubleshooting along the way, so you can start fermenting confidently in your own kitchen.

Including even small amounts of fermented foods in your diet can help balance your gut microbiome, supporting not just your immune system but your overall health. Come away with new skills, a happy gut, and a full heart.

All ingredients are included, along with a meal that highlights the fermented flavours. Please remember to bring your own jars so you can take your creations home!

About Asa Simonsson

Åsa Linéa Simonsson is the author of ‘Fermentation – How to Make Your Own Sauerkraut, Kimchi, Brine Pickles, Kefir, Kombucha, Vegan Dairy, and More’ published by Anness Publishing Ltd. Asa grew up making ferments in her native Sweden; a trained nutritionist, naturopath and nurse, she runs a busy natural nutrition and health practice, Linéa Nutrition, in the UK combined with popular workshops and retreats.

The process of fermenting foods is as old as humanity. Fermenting preserves food and makes it more digestible and nutritious. Valued for its complex tastes, fermented foods are a powerful aid to digestion and a protection against disease.” Asa Linéa Simonsson from Linéa Nutrition. Asa Linéa Simonsson from Linéa Nutrition.

About Pay What You Can Tickets

At Made In Hackney, we love bringing people together through plant-based cooking. For over a decade, we’ve offered free community cooking classes open to all. But with 1 in 3 households in Hackney experiencing food poverty and demand growing, we’ve introduced a Pay What You Can model to ensure no one is excluded.

If you’re able to give a little more, your generosity directly funds ingredients, classes and resources for people who might otherwise miss out. This approach helps us reach more people, run more classes and make the best use of our limited resources — while keeping our classes inclusive and welcoming.

Importantly, we’ll continue to run free community classes alongside this model. This is a trial, so if you have any questions or suggestions, please contact us at classes@madeinhackney.org.

PLEASE NOTE: This class is for adults only.

Suggested contributions per place

• £10 – Minimum donation
• £15 – Partial contribution
• £20 – Covers the full cost
• £30 – Pays it forward for someone else

If you cannot afford the minimum donation but would still like to attend, please email classes@madeinhackney.org. We will try our best to ensure that no one is turned away for lack of funds.

When you come to a Made In Hackney cookery class, you enjoy an enriching culinary experience and help us fight hunger in our community.

Refunds: Please understand that our charity needs time to resell your tickets as we rely heavily on the income generated by our classes. We require a minimum of 7 days’ notice for any cancellations or transfers once you have booked onto a class.

At Made In Hackney we believe access to good food is a human right – not a privilege. If you would like to learn more about our work, please click here.

For information: classes@madeinhackney.org / 020 8442 4266 / WhatsApp message +44 07833685894