Austin Durant has been fermenting food for over fifteen years. In 2011, he founded Fermenters Club with the mission of improving lives by teaching why and how to enjoy fermented foods, while fostering communities connected through their guts.

He has taught hundreds of workshops on sauerkraut, pickles, kimchi, kombucha, miso, and sourdough, and regularly leads team-building events for corporations, small groups, and multi-day fermentation intensives.

Austin published his first book, Fearless Fermenting, in 2024 and has presented at the Wise Traditions Conference in 2022 and 2024. When he’s not teaching or filling jars, Austin can be found gardening, practicing permaculture, cooking, doing yoga, writing, or exploring big questions in cosmology, new physics, and the natural world.