COAST FORK CHRONICLES: LET’S GET ‘START’ED!
We now carry more of the goods to help the kitchen do-it-yourselfer!
Yearning to make your own yogurt? Tempted to try to throw tempeh together? Pleased to make your own cheese?
Then Coast Fork Feed Store can help you get started! Recently, we were thrilled to find a regional source for fermentation products that make it easy to make homemade yogurt, kefir, tempeh, sourdough breads, cheeses and more.
Oregon City-based Northwest Ferments provides quality starter cultures for home production.
“Our goal is to enable people to improve their own health while saving them money,” says the company’s website. “By making our own healthy foods, we help ourselves as well as our planet.”
“We’ve waited to find products that are locally sourced, and we found them in a small women-owned manufacturing plant that shares our values — of bringing the best products to our customers and the community, people who want to do more for themselves,” said Coast Fork Owner Dale Smith.
Smith said customers frequently ask about such products as rennet, gluten-free sourdough starters and seed starters to grow sprouts at home, adding that Coast Fork is thrilled to expand its offerings. Finding companies that market their products specifically to area small businesses, she says, has greatly expanded the way Coast Fork can source its own products.
Among these new fermentation products, you will find:
- Chèvre Cheese Culture
- Crème Fraîche Cheese Culture
- Mesophilic Direct-Set Cheese Culture
- Thermophilic Direct-Set Cheese Culture
- Vegetable Rennet (tablets)
- Animal Rennet (liquid)
- Matsoni Yogurt Starter
- Greek Yogurt Starter
- Kefir Starter
- Tempeh Starter
- (ask us for ideas on assembling a cheese making kit!)
As always, our own Jason Smith can help you get ‘start’ed and answer your burning questions, so stop by Coast Fork today and plan your next DIY culinary adventure!
