Small Town Female Entrepreneur Goes National With Her Fermented Food Brands

A decade ago, Cori Deans was told by doctors that she’d likely have to be on meds for the rest of her life, and would have to manage her Crohn’s disease through diet and lifestyle. Instead, she turned to foods to improve her health, and in the process built a business that’s rapidly expanding across the East Coast.

Small Town Cultures, which specializes in small batch fermented foods, started with Deans learning about her own gut. “I was put on a diet that was low on fiber and a gnarly cocktail of immunosuppressant meds plus antibiotics and steroids. None of it really was helping or made sense

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