Farmented Foods – Bozeman, Montana entrepreneurs turn ugly vegetables into fermented food

To two local entrepreneurs, all vegetables are beautiful.

That’s why Vanessa Bakken and Vanessa Walsten spend hours chopping, peeling and dicing all the “ugly” vegetables they can get their hands on to make fermented goods for their business, Farmented Foods.

The two came up with the idea while in a class at Montana State University a few years ago, and the idea was simple: Eliminate food waste on small, local farms by using excess and ugly vegetables that farmers can’t sell.