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🫧 Living Bubbles: Jun & Water Kefir for Everyday Vitality 🫧

For years now, I’ve been sharing our ferments one bottle, one market, one conversation at a time. Next week, I’m excited to pull back the curtain and share some of the methods, lessons, and practices that have shaped ApotheCulture’s journey.

I’m especially honored to be teaching alongside Hannah Ruhamah Crum, founder of Kombucha Kamp and one of the most influential voices in modern fermentation. Her work has inspired countless brewers—including many of us who now teach and make fermented beverages professionally. I literally owned her book before we met and became friends.

And now together, we’ll explore two of our favorite living beverages: Jun and Water Kefir.

Throughout the evening, we’ll cover:

✨ How to confidently brew Jun & Water Kefir at home
✨ Flavoring techniques and recipe development
✨ The role of living ferments in supporting the gut microbiome
✨ Common mistakes and how to avoid them
✨ Practical knowledge you can immediately apply in your own kitchen

We’ll also be tasting a variety of finished ferments and discussing how these simple traditions can become part of everyday life.

Whether you’re completely new to fermentation or looking to deepen an existing practice, we’d love to have you join us.

📅 Tuesday, June 9th
⏰ 6:30–8:00 PM
📍 Hennessy & Clark, Los Angeles
🎟️ $60 | Space is limited

Come bring your curiosity and explore one of my favorite probiotic obsessions! 🤩

✨🍂 Autumn Equinox is calling… and we’re answering! We’re rounding out the season with our version of BBQ, your favorite Jun, red light, sound, speakers, and a lineup of therapies to recharge you head to toe.

September 21st, 5–9PM at Transformational Healing Universe, Los Angeles.

Your $33 ticket includes food, community, free red light sessions + your choice of a full hour of Ceragem, HBOT, PEMF, and some other awesome healing tech. Spaces are limited, and yes—they’ll go faster than that summer sun chasing the harvest moon. 🌞🌙

🎟 Grab your spot before it’s gone. Link in bio.

Fries? Hand-cut. Burger? Loaded. Ketchup? Fermented. 🔥

Meet the probiotic upgrade your plate didn’t know it needed.

This is Cultured Ketchup—crafted the old way, with living bacteria and bold tomato tang.

🍅 It’s raw.
🧄 It’s real.
🧬 It’s alive.

Traditionally, every meal came with something fermented—for flavor and digestion. We’re just bringing it back.

Your childhood condiment just hit its final form.

🌞 Summer Solstice Celebration 🌿
Come mark the longest day of the year with good people, good food, and a little bit of old-world wisdom. We’re bringing the community together for an evening of flavor, movement, and good ol’ fashioned reverie.

🎛️ Live music by Naethexia
🥋 Martial arts demo by Stephen Brown
🏮 Red light sessions with Transformational Healing Universe
🥒 Pickling workshop by In a Pickle
⚗️ Fermentation workshop by ApotheCulture

Lite bites, tastings, and Jun on tap will be flowing.
It’s a free event—bring a friend, bring your partner, just don’t miss it.

📍This Sunday 6/22 5-9p
📲 RSVP here: bit.ly/3HHDwCF

Just in time for the dry winter… ❄️

Beef Tallow Balm is here! Nourishing, moisturizing, and silky smooth to the touch, our first foray into cosmetics may be the only skin conditioner you’ll need.

Non-comedogenic, bio-identical to skin oil, and loaded with vitamins A, D, E, and K, this particular grass fed and finished beef tallow is blended with just the right proportion of organic jojoba, frankincense, sandalwood, and Bulgarian rose oils.

We call it C H A L E U R for its subtle warming notes, to imbue you with a lasting, radiant glow! 😇

Suitable for the face & body, we use only the finest ingredients for a purity your skin will love.

We dare you to try it. 😏

Currently available at all our farmers markets in SoCal; online coming soon.

Happy Holidays! 🎄⛄️🕎

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This weekend! Come have some fun in the sun and get ready for a wild week in Black Rock City. 🔥

We’ll be in the kitchen serving up (among other nourishing delights) our gourmet grilled cheese: organic sourdough with raw and grassfed cheeses, black garlic, and our homemade “Roots” Sauerkraut and Cultured Ketchup. Option: grassfed 12-hour bone broth-braised brisket FTW. Yeah, it’s like that, y’all. 🤤

Tickets are on sale now with several tiers for entry. Use promo code APOTHECULTURE for 20% off your ticket while they’re still available.

We’ll be starting up in the afternoon serving our nourishing comfort food till late. 🌝

See ya there!

Pancakes have been a diet staple in cultures worldwide since grain has been ground into flour. From our American flapjacks to the Dutch baby to the Japanese okonomiyaki, these fried balls of batter take so many forms you would hardly believe they were all related. Whatever the shape, the problem is not the flavor factor.

The bigger issue is that although pancakes are filling and objectively delicious, many include anti-nutritious phytates and lectins. Whole grains, legumes, seeds and nuts all contain these invisible enemies which not only prevent the absorption of crucial minerals like iron, zinc, magnesium, and calcium but also contribute to the breakdown of the gut lining, causing all kinds of cumulative digestive issues, including the notorious “leaky gut syndrome.”

So after years of experimentation, we are delighted to offer our Superfood Grain-Free Pancake Mix! A bountiful blend of flours eliminating those grains that leech minerals from the body, you can say goodbye to traditional pancakes and hello to a healthier alternative. Made with only the finest organic ingredients, this pancake mix is packed with superfoods like chia seeds, maca, lucuma, shilajit, and real Madagascar vanilla. Not only is it gluten-free, but it's also grain-free, making it the perfect choice for those following a paleo or keto lifestyle. With a light and fluffy texture, these pancakes will leave you feeling satisfied and energized all day long, with none of that feeling of inflammation or bloat.

Now you can have your pancake and eat it, too. Start your morning off on the right foot with a stack of ApotheCulture superfood pancakes. Your taste buds and your body will thank you! 🤩🥞🍁

Come join us this weekend at the Conscious Life Expo! We will be celebrating life with some unique, like-minded spirits, and for the first time, offering one of our favorite ways to enjoy our sauerkraut: sourdough grilled cheese with black garlic and cultured ketchup! 🍅🧀 🧄

We will also be serving purple sweet potato fries, lightly fried in olive oil alongside our usual staples, Jun Kombucha, Coconut Yogurt, and more! 🍹🥥 🍦

Event starts tomorrow, Friday 2/10 and goes through Monday 2/13. It will be full of incredible booths, speakers, concerts, and energy all around. ✨

Go to consciouslifeexpo.com for tickets, lineup, and more info.

See you there!

Yuletide Greetings!

Winter is here, and the time has come to settle in, ground down, and warm up with nourishing, healing foods. 'Tis the season for introspection, lining the nest, and gathering with loved ones to round out the year with the Autumn's harvest.

Our Chinese Master Stock Bone Broth makes the perfect winter warmer, full of complex flavors and alleviating to those aching joints and bones. Loaded with collagen, glucosamine, hyaluronic acid, minerals, and finished with herbs, spices, and reishi mushroom, it's just what we wanted for a seasonal sipping. So now we offer it to you. ☺️

Braise it with meats, add to a pho, or enjoy all by itself.

Sending love, warmth and mirth on this Winter Solstice from all of us here at ApotheCulture. 🪅⛄️✨