Gina's Kombucha Journey

Hello there! I’m Gina Rieg in Columbia, Maryland.
You may know me from my nutrition coaching practice, Simplified Wellness for You, or you’re a friend, acquaintance or perhaps you don’t know me at all, until now!

Well, I’m here with my gofundme campaign to jumpstart my journey of making kombucha commercially.

Kombucha is a fermented tea beverage.  It's been said that kombucha has several health benefits.  It tastes great too!  

Here's my story... In 2010, I embarked upon my transition to a traditional, nutrient-rich, ancestral food lifestyle.  It was then that I realized the KEY to vibrant health and the KEY to recovering from the digestive disease that I had struggled with since I was 19 years old, was to embrace a traditional, nutrient-rich, ancestral diet and lifestyle.  Fermented foods and fermented beverages are a part of that food lifestyle.

From my journey, I began my nutrition coaching practice, Simplified Wellness for You, in order to help others.  I also fell in love with fermenting vegetables and making my own fermented beverages, including kombucha.  So, kombucha came into my life!...


About my kombucha passion!  I have been making/brewing it at home for about 5 years now.  I’ve discovered my passion for sharing kombucha with others and experimenting with different flavors.  



Check out my video above to see the increase in jar size that has occured along the years, as I've made more and more kombucha!  

So, for a while now, in the back of my mind, I’ve had the thought of making kombucha commercially.  Then, this past August, I was in Boulder, CO for the Ancestral Health Symposium conference and I was even more inspired.  There, in Boulder, I saw kombucha available at restaurants, kombucha ON TAP at a crossfit gym called Crossfit Sonitas and some friends and I even went to a kombucha bar called Rowdy Mermaid!

And it hit me!  I realized that I wanted to be a BIGGER part in this! And bring kombucha even more to MY community.  WHY aren’t MORE people around me drinking and enjoying kombucha? ESPECIALLY instead of soda and sugary drinks?
 
So, I've been sharing my homemade kombucha with others and GUESS WHAT? THEY LOVE IT!  People want MY kombucha! MORE PEOPLE keep asking for MY kombucha.  Everyone is saying “You should sell this!”...

And so, I’m on this journey to see what I can do to take my kombucha to the next level by bringing it to MY LOCAL COMMUNITY.  This campaign will help me get started.  

And, I need your support!  The funds raised in this campaign will support me with some essential first steps.  I will use the funds to join the “Kombucha Brewers International” association and to cover expenses to get to their annual conference in EARLY FEBRUARY, so I’m in a little bit of a time crunch!  But, this will get the ball rolling!

Your contribution will go directly towards MY PASSION of bringing Kombucha to MY LOCAL COMMUNITY, to support their health journeys.   This would mean so much to me because it's another way that I will support and strenghen my own local community...
 
Thank you so much for your consideration and I greatly appreciate your support.  Any amount will help!  

If you have any questions at all, please reach out! 

Thanks again!

- Gina Rieg