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Megan Burrows, a production crew employee at Aqua ViTea, labels bottles at the company’s facility in Middlebury. Tthe Flex Fund made a $300,000 investment into Aqua ViTea, which Jeff Weaber used to build out bottling capacity. Photos by Erica Houskeeper.
by Janice St Onge, president of the Flexible Capital Fund At the core of Jeff Weaber’s business lies a simple idea: that kombucha a fizzy probiotic drink made from tea promotes good health and can change lives.
It was with this idea in mind that Weaber, formerly a brewer for Lucky Labrador in Oregon, started making kombucha in the basement of his Salisbury, Vermont farmhouse back in 2005, primarily to support his wife’s newly opened naturopathic clinic.