After a long Vermont winter, the arrival of wildflower season is celebration-worthy! Fields of dandelions, grassy meadows dotted with violets and strawberry flowers, abandoned farmsteads and roadsides lush with lilac hedges all beg to be smelled and sampled. How to best enjoy this bounty of edible wildflowers? In a sweet, fizzy wildflower kombucha that tastes like summer! If you’ve already sampled my Elderflower Kombucha recipe, you know that making a flavored kombucha to rival the expensive store brands is quite easy. You simply jazz up your fermented booch with the addition of whole fruit, juices, flowers, roots, herbs, spices, sweeteners, and/or syrups. For this Wildflower Kombucha … [Read more...]
How to Make Kombucha in 3 Simple Steps!
Kombucha is a tasty, easy to make fermented beverage that delivers a probiotic kick. If you've ever purchased kombucha at the grocery store, you know it is delicious, but expensive! I'm going to show you how to make kombucha at home - for pennies a serving - and in just three simple steps. If you want to take the kombucha love up a notch, you can continue the process with a secondary ferment. I'll give you some suggestions for flavor combinations below, and also check out my super delicious wild-foraged elderflower kombucha recipe! What is Kombucha Anyways? If you haven’t yet experienced kombucha, it is a fermented beverage made from tea, sugar, and a culture called a SCOBY, or a Symbiotic … [Read more...]