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Bringing people together to share the joys of foraging, fermenting, pickling and producing. Jarring out of

Harnessing the seasons and surplus of Sheffield, and sharing it out in jar sized portions.

30/09/2026

The harvest moon is waning and that can only mean… PICKLE FEST is just around the corner. And with that we have some very exciting workshops to announce! 🌝

If you’re not sure where to start with pickling and fermenting, Lacto-fermenting 101 with Kiosken på Odden might be the workshop for you! Or if you want to get a little bit deeper into the world of pickling, rebecca echevarria will take you on an exploration of pickle beds. Or you can fill your bellies and your hearts with miso under the wise tutelage of koji witches and all round good apples Wild Combination !!

There are only limited spaces on these workshops so PLEASE BOOK if you would like to attend. The links are in our bio!

A note on accessibility: whilst Steamworks has full step free access, these workshops are scheduled to take place next door at Portland Works, up a steep flight of stairs. If this would be a barrier to you being able to attend, please let us know and we can try to relocate it! More details on the eventbrite page.

23/09/2026

We’re looking for lots of friendly faces and helping hands to pull off a mega special pickle festival in just THREE WEEKS AND THREE DAYS!!

The countdown is on to the 17th Oct and we’ve got signs that need painting, jars that need de-labelling, banners that need sewing, and vegetables that need chopping. Pickle Fest is a big old community effort and if you want to be a part of it please sign up through the volunteer form (link in bio!)

Bonus points if your name is Alex, Alexi, Lexie or Al, just because things aren’t quite confusing enough in the pickle fest organising team (big love to this trio for all the work they’ve put in so far! What a lovely bunch you’ll be working with 💚)

Come join us! 🫙 🎨 🎀 🫧

Peace and pickles,

Poppy, Emily, Matt, Matt, Alex, Alex and Alexis
😘

06/08/2026

Ticket link in bio!!

02/07/2026

🫧 🥬 🫙 🌟 SAVE THE DATE 👀

We’ve been having lots of meetings (with tasty food) and planning away, and thanks to a BEAUTIFUL community effort we raised £500 to secure the venue for Pickle Fest 2026. So we are delighted to announce…

🫧Pickle Fest is officially making its big return on
*Saturday 17th October 2026*
2pm - 10pm
@ Steam Works, S2 4SJ 🫧

Get those competition entries fermenting pickle babes, we can’t wait to taste what’s in those jarrrrsss! 🫐 🥕 🍅 (Categories coming soon)

The kraut-funder is still live and if we can raise another £250 it will help us to fund the festival itself and keep social pickle’s community workshops and other activities bubbling away until October.

Please chuck your coins in that kraut-jar if you haven’t already (link in bio) and BIG THANK YOUS to everyone who already has. We love you 🦠 🫶

28/05/2026

Like a scoby at the back of the fridge, Social Pickle has been a little dormant recently. But now it’s out, bubbling away again, and in need of feeding 🫧

The question you’ve all been asking: is Pickle Fest happening this year? The answer is: hopefully!!

We want to celebrate all things pickled, preserved and fermented with Sheffield’s many pickle fans once again — while keeping the festival safe, sustainable and accessible to everyone 💚

But we’re a very small team of volunteers organising the festival (and we still don’t have a kitchen space from which to generate income), so we need some help covering the up-front costs of making Pickle Fest 2026 happen 👀

Please don’t be put off by the £5000 target! It was a random number we initially put in before realising Crowdfunder doesn’t let you change it once you’ve released it into the world. Any amount is helpful, even if it’s small!

If you’ve got a few coins rattling around at the bottom of your pocket, consider chucking one in the kraut jar. 🫙

Link in bio / on our website 🥒

crowdfunder.co.uk/p/kraut-funder

04/12/2024

Social Pickles alternative Xmas gift guide! ✨🎄🤶🎁 ✨ If you’re not on our mailing list, this was our most recent newsletter and we’ve saved a link to it in our bio for you to check out.

A small list of wonderful things made by the wider creative ecology of our project. Seeing as it’s the run up to Xmas it’s a great time to support them through buying gifts!

30/09/2024

The final session of Acid Seasons is coming up on the 2nd November, 10am-1pm at the lovely

As the dark months draw in we will be harnessing the power of deep roots and bulbs to spark fire in our bellies and keep out the cold. Our winter tonics will be made using the Apple C***r Vinegar with this years beauty apple crops. Learn about plants that are forgeable when it seems like most of life is retreating, as well as remedies that are probably sitting right there on your spice racks!

There are already only 2 tickets left for this event!! So if we have a lot more interest after it sells out, we could release a second afternoon session. Please let us know if you’re interested in that! 🔥

24/09/2024

Thanks to everyone that came to join us at the weekend, digging down to our elbows in apples, letting the rhythm of the chopping and coring guide our conversation and learning. We celebrated the change in seasons by sacrificing the sweet flesh of our harvest to the microbial deities, making wishes along with our scattered sugar offerings, embracing life as it turns sour. We shared poems and stories, the label on the first image is titled with a line from a wassail song that one participant brought with them and we particularly like. Finally we baked soft apple cake and drank warm spiced vinegar while contemplating the ancient tradition we had connected in with.

Thanks to for having us 🏠

The final session of the series is on the 2nd November and there’s still some tickets left! 🦠

18/09/2024

Photos from our first Acid Seasons session, late summer berry tonics! We got hit by a tropical downpour, but we are so so grateful to everyone that came along for staying in such high spirits throughout the soaking. Having harnessed the summer sun rays that were stored up in all the berry flesh and juices, now slowly infusing into our vinegars at home, means that next time we get cold and wet we’ll have a warm berry embrace to keep us feeling soft and loved, as well as boost our immune systems! Snacks can always break through any rain cloud too and we shared blackberry scones flavoured with dried and ground hogweed seeds and meadowsweet, slathered with haw berry and star anise jam. Nettle “cola” helped too 🍻

Just a couple of tickets left for our next Acid Seasons session this Saturday!! (And this one we’ll be safely positioned at Union Street with a roof over our heads!). For this Autumn workshop we will be having a celebration of our most bountiful harvest in this city - apples. Learning how to make apple c***r vinegar, the base ingredient for all our other seasonal tonics. Link in bio!

15/09/2024

Next weekend is our vinegar making workshop! On Saturday we’ll be celebrating the abundance of apple season, learning to embrace life when it turns sour, co-creating a collective mother (of vinegar) to nurture us through the rest of the seasons. We’ll gather to learn about the double fermentation process, how to make vinegar with scraps and bake a warm apple cake together to eat and chat about autumn 🍂 only a few tickets left! Grab yourself one, link in our bio xx

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http://www.socialpickle.co.uk/

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