New to TF, & Need Help!

[Sundance_11]

Hi! I'm so glad I've found this forum.

I've always eaten a somewhat traditional diet--homemade, from scratch stuff made with non-processed, healthy ingredients. But this whole kefir, lactofermentation, sprouting stuff is new to me (I'm just recently a mom, and recently married...so I have a lot to learn about cooking and stuff still, since I only had limited exposure growing up--my stepmom was pretty traditional, but I didn't spend a ton of time with her).

So, can you educated people help me out? Tell me the benefits of this stuff, and what a newbie can do to get started?
It doesn't sound to appetizing to me from what I know so far, but I could be WAY wrong. My DH is pretty fussy, I am not...and DD doesn't have much of a choice, if that's what she's used to from an early age.

TIA
Melanie

[spughy]

There's a "getting started" sticky at the top of the forum, you'll probably want to read through that - but I have to say, once you get into the lactofermented veg, you'll never pickle in vinegar again!!! They're really tasty. Kefir is awesome too - makes the best smoothies ever.

And welcome! I hope you enjoy the forum! Whereabouts in Canada are you, if you're comfortable saying? What kind of foods are local to you?

[Sundance_11]

I'm in NB...so pretty much across the country from you!
I don't know what you'd call local to us, really! I've lived in NB, NS, PQ and ON, and could grow pretty much the same things in all those places...I can't think of anything we can't grow here!