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A log of bright green ramp butter on parchment paper, with three thick coins sliced off, a torn baguette, and two bread slices already spread with ramp butter on a marble surface.
April 23, 2026

Recipe: Ramp Butter

Ramp butter is three ingredients and no cooking — the fastest way we've found to stretch a two-week ramp season into a year.

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  • How to Make Cultured Butter - FarmSteady
    August 30, 2019

    How to Make Cultured Butter

    Cultured butter is rich, tangy, calls for only two ingredients and is incredibly easy to make. In this recipe you’ll learn the whole process from cream selection, culturing, churning and washing your homemade butter so that you can make your own cultured butter from scratch.
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  • Recipe: Fermented Cherries - FarmSteady
    June 19, 2019

    Recipe: Fermented Cherries

    Fermented cherries are salty, tangy and super savory: kind of like the love child of a maraschino cherry and an olive. Which is probably why one of our favorite uses is plunked into a cocktail. If you’re looking for something sweet: make pie. But if you want to take a walk on the savory side these fermented cherries are excellent on a cheese board, as a tangy pizza topping (think white pies) and as a fun twist on a cocktail garnish.
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  • Tips for Fermenting in Hot Weather - FarmSteady
    June 13, 2019

    Tips for Fermenting in Hot Weather

    Fermenting in the summer heat can be tricky. If you have been fermenting for a bit, you may have noticed that recipes you make all the time are suddenly behaving quite differently when temperatures rise. But with a few adjustments you can successfully ferment all summer long.

    And really, were you going to pass up on fermented hot sauce, classic dill pickles, and freshly made kraut with all the peak-season produce? We didn’t think so. But keep these tips in mind when you are fermenting in the heat.

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  • Recipe: Fermented Pineapple Habanero Hot Sauce - FarmSteady
    June 5, 2019

    Recipe: Fermented Pineapple Habanero Hot Sauce

    This vibrant hot sauce with pineapple and habanero is spicy, tangy, and deep. Fermenting your hot sauce gives it an umami depth and knocks just a bit of the edge off the chiles for a complex and bright hot sauce you’ll want to put on everything.
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  • How to Grow a Sourdough Starter from Scratch - FarmSteady
    May 22, 2019

    How to Grow a Sourdough Starter from Scratch

    Have your homemade sourdough dreams been on hold because you’re waiting to get your hands on a starter? You know a good sourdough starter is what makes the bread, and you might be thinking that you need to have inherited...

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  • Recipe: Lacto-Pickled Radish Slices - FarmSteady
    May 15, 2019

    Recipe: Lacto-Pickled Radish Slices

    We wanted to find a way to get the wonderful flavors of the taqueria without, you know, the actual taco. These lacto-fermented radishes fit the bill. Sliced paper thin and brined with red onion, cilantro and jalapeño, they nail that magical cross section of flavor: tart, crunchy, bright, funky, and spicy.
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  • How to Make Yogurt - FarmSteady
    April 29, 2019

    How to Make Yogurt

    Making yogurt is easy. Now that we have that out of the way, we can tell you why. First off, you need very little to get started. The only ingredients you need are milk and a little bit of live-culture...

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  • Q+A: All About Fermentation Weights - FarmSteady
    February 27, 2019

    Q+A: All About Fermentation Weights

    When lacto-fermenting veggies, we try to keep everything submerged under brine to keep it healthy and free of grossies. After lots of trial and error, we designed what we think is the perfect fermentation weight.
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  • February 20, 2019

    Recipe: Hibiscus Kombucha

    When we started making kombucha we followed the rules: black tea, sugar, starter, SCOBY and nothing else until after fermentation. But as our SCOBY replicated, cloning itself every batch, we got a little less precious with it. What was the...

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  • Recipe: Dill Pickle Kraut - FarmSteady
    February 13, 2019

    Recipe: Dill Pickle Kraut

    We love dill pickles. Real dill pickles. The ones ordered as full-sours or half-sours and pulled from a barrel in New York's Lower East Side. That's how we fell in love with pickles. So when we got into food fermentation,...

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  • Recipe: Fermented Jalapeño Hot Sauce - FarmSteady
    January 23, 2019

    Recipe: Fermented Jalapeño Hot Sauce

    When it comes to hot sauce our mantra (usually) is the hotter the better. So to achieve maximum heat, we've made 100% habanero batches that we doled out with an eye-dropper and still brought all taste testers to tears.This Jalapeño...

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