About

The Urban Monk is dedicated to producing high-quality cultured food products.

The Urban Monk

The Christchurch earthquakes opened up the opportunity for enterprising start-ups, many of them environmental in focus, and on Boxing Day, 2012 we launched The Urban Monk as a Facebook page. We registered The Urban Monk as a company in 2014 and in 2015 we launched our special range of cultured vegetables. Since that first little box we sold in Christchurch, we are now all over the country – you can buy our range of krauts from Auckland to Dunedin!

What Makes Urban Monk Krauts So Special?

• Urban Monk is the FIRST maker of locally produced and certified organic fermented vegetables in New Zealand.
• Urban Monk live cultured vegetables are guaranteed vegan. – We do not use a starter culture. (Starter cultures are sometimes derived from dairy.)
• With Urban Monk krauts, you are guaranteed to receive ALL the nourishing goodness a live cultured vegetable can offer. – We do not pasteurise!
• We use only the best ingredients. – Did we mention the Himalayan rock salt? It’s pink!
• Urban Monk’s philosophy embraces simplicity and a minimal environmental footprint every step of the way. – Our products are hand-crafted and our vegetables are sourced as locally as possible.
• Urban Monk’s philosophy places value on people and social justice. – We support local growers, and wherever possible our spices are sourced from Trade Aid.
• We offer a number of unique flavours of sauerkraut, based on our own lovingly perfected recipes.
• Sauerkraut and beyond! – In addition to our several flavours of sauerkraut, we offer a range of unique non-cabbage based cultured vegetables, such as our Glorious Carrot & Ginger, our Blessed Beetroot and our newest recipe, the Eternal Onions, with more to come in the future…

Our Place – The Urban Monk Fermentary & Takeaways

The Urban Monk Ltd is based out of the Urban Monk Fermentary & Takeaways, out at beautiful New Brighton Beach in Ōtautahi Christchurch.

Come and visit us at Shop 3, 140 Brighton Mall, grab some bulk krauts or one of our famous toasties!