Pictured (left to right): Jeannine Buscher Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Zane Adams Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Sarah Schomber, Co-Founder & Chief People Officer
From a small kitchen in Asheville, NC, two mothers with a purpose and passion for fermentation began making kombucha as a healthy alternative for their kids.
From gifting jars to friends, families, neighbors and eventually selling through farmers markets—their shelves and countertops were quickly overflowing with kombucha.
So they took a big leap—a leap that sparks fear, curiosity and can alter a person’s life forever. Buchi took their small-batch home production to a warehouse on a 180-acre farm in the mountains of Southern Appalachia. Unwaveringly dedicated to their mission, the whole team decided this wouldn’t just be their office, but their home. Brewing together, working together, living together, and taking on every hardship together.
In 2016, Buchi opened the first commercial kombucha brewery in the Southeast. As we continue to grow, we remain forever committed to brewing the highest quality living drinks, filled with flavor and purpose—and to using our business as a conduit for positive social impact.
We seek out new ideas that support the improvement of our processes, products, and services—especially as a means to limit our ecological impact.
We recognize and harness the unique knowledge and strengths of each individual on our team—forming shared goals and reaching those goals is an essential part of our collective success.
We assume best intentions and lean into openness. Effective and thoughtful communication creates synergy, a synthesis of diverse ideas, and a platform for effective and positive change.
We are in a persistent pursuit of new knowledge, embrace challenges, incorporate feedback, and turn failures and mistakes into opportunities. We believe everyone has the ability to change, learn and evolve.
We believe in creating a space where meaningful connections within our team are forged, nurtured, and respected—so we can encourage a productive, engaging, and positive work culture.
We show gratitude for our team members through conscious and deliberate actions that celebrate our successes and support each other through struggles or obstacles.
Creating resilient systems in the body, the community, and the natural world takes all of us!
This is why we are so proud to be a Benefit Corporation.It means that “doing good” is a core part of our identity, and as a result, our company can act purposefully at all states of decision making — balancing transparency and taking deliberate action to be an agent of positive impact for our planet, our people, and our community (you!)
Healthy forests give so much back to us: they clean our air and water, support health and biodiversity, stabilize our climate, and more. We donate a percent of our profits from every order to One Tree Planted, because we believe replenishing the world’s forests is one step towards protecting our home planet.
We vet and validate each supplier we work with, giving preference to those that meet robust third-party social and environmental criteria. Preference is also given to independent, woman, and minority-owned suppliers, as well as those located within 150 miles of our brewery – when price and quality are equal.
We believe that everything is interconnected and are very mindful of our footprint, especially when it comes to sourcing. Our Sugar supplier has the only closed-loop sugarcane process in the world and is carbon neutral.
Motivated to make good on our sustainability mission, we redirected our business to a domestic manufacturer— reducing our carbon footprint by up to 85%.
