The Grower & The Fermenter
Reinvigorating the Craft
The Fermenter’s Garden: A Stunning Companion for Cabbage
Our regenerative system thrives when symbiotic and commensal relationships between plants are optimized. For example, planting French marigolds alongside cabbage for pest management, improved soil health and ecosystem biodiversity.
Fermented Cabbage: Your Flu Season Survival Guide
As we navigate through flu season, protecting our health starts from the inside out. While handwashing and rest are vital, one of the most powerful “flu-fighting” tools might already be in your refrigerator — sauerkraut. A nutritional powerhouse for building natural resilience.
Fermented Foods to help you Thrive
Elevating everyday meals and making snacking healthier with lacto-fermented foods has never been easier. Why aren’t you doing it?
Hot Pepper Paste: Going Beyond Just Heat
An ULTRA-natural fermented chili-garlic paste. Kres Wildfire unites a potent capsaicin experience with layered flavors and all the functional benefits of traditional lacto-fermention. Thick and robust, a little paste goes a long way for personalizing appetizers, spicy dishes or for homemade swicy sauces.
Soil, Seasons and Style of Cultivation
Kres Kitchen’s key drivers of quality and flavor. Psst: it all starts long before we arrive at the professional kitchen.
Soil, growing season, and a regenerative style of cultivation collectively play a big role in driving quality and flavor in fermented sauerkrauts. By focusing on these variables, Kres optimizes all that nature has to offer in terms of artisan flavor, crisp texture and overall nutritional value.
Spiced Turmeric Sauerkraut
At Kres Kitchen, we love fermenting with audacious ingredients when it means raising the bar on FLAVOR and FUNCTIONAL HEALTH BENEFITS. Local exotics transform common sauerkraut orthodoxy into a wild culinary adventure.
Kraut Toast
Functional foods don’t have to be complicated, expensive or boring. If you’re looking for big flavor that also promotes gut health, brain function, and overall wellness, Kraut Toast is one way to have it all - fiber, flavor and gut healthy.
Breakfast Kraut
Breakfast Kraut is a gutsy Kres Kitchen original, specifically made for elevating the first meal of the day. We’re taking ordinary breakfast fare to new heights with a fiber-fueled probiotic boost. Adding fermented vegetables to your morning routine is a nourishing way to break the nighttime fast while moderating blood sugar spikes… naturally. The ultimate GLP-1 hack.
Community Supported Sustainability (CSS)
In 2024 Kres worked with market-goers to promote and execute a glass recycling program; a local closed-loop model, driven by voluntary customer returns and Kres in-house reprocessing. Over the course of the year, we more than doubled the number of jars that were recovered, re-sanitized and refilled compared to the prior year. An encouraging trade-off between financial and sustainability outcomes with real savings passed on to our most loyal participants.
Six Exotic Plants for Making Artisan Sauerkrauts
At Kres Kitchen, we believe that in order to ferment the highest quality sauerkrauts, more focus is needed on how the ingredients are grown. Some of our favorite krauts are made with fruits and vegetables that aren’t native to Northeast Ohio. Nevertheless, we’ve learned to assimilate these exotic plants into our local terroir; our seasons, our soils, and our microbiological communities. The results have been spectacular.
KRES! more than a name
Although we didn’t realize it at the time, the name “KRES” signifies so much more to the Cleveland, Ohio community than our small craft food business. After serious consideration, here’s why we’re not changing.