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Sauerkraut and kimchi
from the smallholding
at Hjuksebø

Organic cabbage, fermented for fourteen days in a stoneware crock on our farm in Notodden. No sugar, no vinegar, never heat treated.

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Organic and Debio certified

Fourteen days in the crock

The sauerkraut most people know is not fermented. It is boiled with vinegar and sugar. Ours makes its own acid.

The cabbage is shredded, salted and kneaded well, which wakes the lactic acid bacteria that are already in the cabbage. Then it is packed into a stoneware crock and weighed down with half stones. A water lock in the lid lets the gas out without letting air in.

After fourteen days the cabbage goes into jars and into the cold. Fermentation almost stops there, but the flavour keeps developing, and after two or three months it is rounder.

Marta shredding red cabbage on a wooden mandoline
Cabbage being packed into a jar, seen from above, next to a tureen of kimchi
Cabbage being filled into jars through a funnel in the kitchen

What we make

You will find the jars at the REKO rings, at Life helsekost and in farm shops around Telemark. Where to buy

Berit and Freddy laughing under the apple tree, she with a basket of cabbage, carrots and ginger, he with a bowl of kimchi

It started with an article in Aftenposten

Many years ago Berit read about fermented cabbage in Aftenposten and made some. It worked, but she did not like it much, and the jar stayed at the back of the fridge.

Then she met her husband, Freddy, who had eaten it growing up. Her sister went on a course with a neighbour who made something like kimchi, and around 2010 Berit made her own, using Norwegian white cabbage. At a work lunch a colleague tasted it and wanted to buy some.

In late summer 2019 she stood at the market square in Bø for the first time. Today we sell at five REKO rings across Telemark and Buskerud, and the jars are in many farm shops.

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Berit at the worktable with the fermentation crock, a wooden tamper and vegetables

Where to buy

At five REKO rings: Bø, Skien, Porsgrunn, Notodden and Kongsberg.

At Life helsekost on Tuven in Notodden, which was the first shop to sell the jars, and in many farm shops around Telemark.

Three catering companies in Telemark also use three of the products in a lefse roll where every ingredient is from Telemark.

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Become a stockist

Sell our jars in your shop, or use them in the food you make in your catering business or restaurant. They are already in many farm shops in Telemark.

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All the jars in a row on the blue table in the greenhouse