The Preserving Chef

15/09/2026

🫙✨ Day 1 is here!

Get ready — Vegetables & Fermented Skincare kicks off our Fermentation Summit, packed with insights on gut-loving ferments and fermented beauty secrets. 🥬🧴
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https://www.makesauerkraut.com/summit/connor

14/09/2026

🍑🎂 No better way to spend your birthday than prepping peaches! 🎂🍑
While some people might be celebrating with cake, Connor spent his birthday getting a head start on peach jam for the months to come! 😂 Joking! He got cake 🎂
🥳🍑🫙

13/09/2026

🎉🎂 Happy Birthday to the man behind The Preserving Chef- Chef Connor Flynn! 🎂🎉
Today we celebrate Connor- husband, dad, teacher, Red Seal Chef, Certified Master Food Preserver, and the person who somehow manages to turn just about anything into something delicious. 😂
From fermentation and canning to sourdough, pickles, dehydrating and all things food preservation, Connor has a passion for sharing the knowledge and skills that connect us to our food, our families and our traditions. 🥖🥒🫙
Wishing you a happy birthday, Connor!
Your family loves you very much, Connor, and we are so thankful to have you to lead our family! 🙏🎉❤️

13/09/2026

🌿🍇 The end of the harvest… but not the end of preserving! 🍇🌿
There’s something a little bittersweet about reaching the end of the growing season. After months of planting, tending, harvesting, and preserving, we’re finally gathering some of the last treasures from the garden.
🍇We got our last few elderberries today. ❤️
And of course, the thyme grew beautifully 🌿 Some will be dried and saved for the months ahead, ready to bring a little taste of the garden into our winter cooking.
There’s something pretty special about turning this season’s abundance into something we can enjoy all winter long.
Here’s to the final harvests, full shelves, and a winter stocked with the goodness of summer! 🫙🌿🍇
We still have a few more things to preserve! Stay tuned!

12/09/2026

The Ripley Agricultural Society has got great news! 🥫

Our friends The Preserving Chef , are coming back to Ripley for another canning course!
They’ll be here October 24 from 8AM-4PM at the Ripley Community Centre!

As you know, these courses fill up very fast so be sure to grab your spot before all the seats (or jars!) are full!

Sign up here! 👇🏼

12/09/2026

🫙We are excited to be heading back to Ripley for another canning class. 🫙

We’ve got great news! 🥫

Our friends The Preserving Chef, are coming back to Ripley for another canning course!
They’ll be here October 24 from 8AM-4PM at the Ripley Community Centre!

As you know, these courses fill up very fast so be sure to grab your spot before all the seats (or jars!) are full!

Sign up here! 👇🏼
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf9iA4JxIcmuo3QEQrkaMZsqq32dwlphyAelMs41CCq5M0Hxw/viewform?usp=embed_facebook

11/09/2026

🌿💜 Our very first elderberry harvest! 💜🌿
Last summer, we planted our elderberry bushes with hopes of one day harvesting our own berries… and look at this! 🥹🙌
Our first harvest of elderberries is officially in, and we couldn’t be more excited!
There’s something pretty special about growing something from the ground and finally getting to enjoy the harvest. 🌱➡️💜
And now… up next: elderberry syrup! 🥄✨ Just in time for cold and flu season.
Homegrown, homemade, and made with love. ❤️

10/09/2026

🫙🌿 THE FERMENTATION SUMMIT IS COMING! 🌿🫙
If fermentation is something you love or something you’ve been wanting to learn more about you’re going to want to check this out!
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🥒 Pickles
🥬 Sauerkraut
🧄 Fermented vegetables
🍞 Sourdough
🫙 And so much more!

👉 Check out Connor’s Fermentation Summit page here:

https://www.makesauerkraut.com/summit/connor

We’re pretty excited to be part of this one! ❤️
Who’s ready to get fermenting? 🫙
Make Sauerkraut
makesauerkraut

09/09/2026

🍄 What do you do when someone gives you a beautiful puffball mushroom?
You make pasta so delicious that the kids don’t even realize there are mushrooms in it! 😂🙌
A little creativity, a little blending, and suddenly that gorgeous puffball has become a delicious pasta sauce that the whole family can enjoy. 🍝❤️
The best part? They ate it. They loved it. And they had NO idea they were eating mushrooms! 🤣
That’s what I call a preserving/foraging win! 🍄🌿

08/09/2026

🥒 When your stand-up fridge is FULL of fermented pickles… you know it’s going to be a good year! 🙌
The pickle production is officially out of control… in the BEST possible way! 😂
Crocks, jars, and shelves packed with all that delicious, tangy, crunchy goodness. And just when you think you’re looking at ALL the pickles… think again! 👀
This isn’t even all of them! We have another fridge full of our already-jarred pickles… AND we still have 4 more crocks sitting on the counter! 🫣🥒
Apparently, we may have gotten a little carried away with the cucumbers. 😂
Feeling pretty grateful for this abundance! 💚
Here’s to a year full of crunchy, fermented pickles! 🫙✨