GoodBugs are award winning producers and retailers of artisan fermented food. All our delicious, gut loving products are made with spray free or organic local produce. Our flagship Zesta fermented pesto is a taste sensation you'll not experience from any other producer in NZ.
Your health journey is our business, we help you improve your and your family's health and wellbeing, with probiotic rich, fermented foods, every meal, every day.
Hi, I'm Marea Verry the main face of GoodBugs, and a self-styled health advocate. I have been interested in fermentation and nutrient dense food for the last 20 years.
After teaching a class about making pesto from all the wild and wonderful herbs and greens found in the garden, I experimented with fermenting pesto and it became a firm favourite because of it superior taste, shelf life and nutritional properties.
I saw potential in producing fermented pesto commercially and being the market leader. GoodBugs started out at the Hamilton Farmers