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## [It takes guts to be healthy](https://foodfuture.co/harvestblog/2017/7/6/it-takes-guts-to-be-healthy)

July 6, 2017

 Mara and Willow King are probiotic alchemists. They started making live raw krauts and kim chi in their home kitchen and have built their passion into Ozuké, a raw fermented foods and beverages company based in Boulder Colorado and a member of FoodFutureCo’s Cohort 2. Along with author Sandor Katz, Mara recently launched a video series called The People’s Republic of Fermentation, in which Sandor and Mara travel through southwest China to learn more about the art of fermentation. In the first episode, they discover how to ferment vegetables the Chinese way (pao-cai) from Mrs. Ding in Chengdu. Follow their

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