Our Hand Crafted
Micro-Brewed Kombucha
We are excited to offer our living kombucha brew both on tap and in recycled glass bottles. Our glass is cleaned and sanitized right here in Missoula by our local Bayern Brewery. You can enjoy a beverage that comes in a recyclable packaging. Together we can keep a valuable resource out of the land fill and lighten our personal impact on the environment. This is how our organization is rooted.
As you may have noticed from our label of Yerba Mate flavor, we want to teach everyone how to brew kombucha by growing their very own mother. Sound like a bad business model? We are more interested in sharing all the wonderous things kombucha has to offer.
All our products are brewed with Yerba Montana's Yerba Mate! They are a local Missoula made company. They work with importers that have their employees in mind. Employees enjoy safe working environments, health insurance, and education for their families. From farmers to exporters, they all enjoy wages that provide a living income. It's up to us to follow the chain of production, ensuring our consumption isn't harming others on the planet! We are one Family!
For Sale at these locations!
Good Food Store Grizzly Grocery
Orange Street Food Farm Market on Front
Both Fresh Markets Roxy Theater
Draught Works Wordens
Stay Wild BnB Liquid Planet
Natural Grocers Rosauers Huckleberries
& Camas Foods in Hot Springs Montana!
Our First Line of Flavors!
Back to the Mother Ferments
Ferment your food, Love your Mother!
ABOUT US
The Mother Circle
Together, our board decided to first organize as a 501 c3 organization. Though we are registered through the state, we are not federally recognized. We did, however, acquire a fiscal sponsor so that we could operate as a fully-recognized Non-Profit.
Our focus is on local economic development; specifically, mentoring worker-owned cooperatives. We then launched our first project: BttM Microbrewed Kombucha. Our intentions are to open-source our research, saving like-minded individuals the time and effort it took us to navigate Montana Law. It is time to change how businesses are organized. Together we can raise the bar and empower workers to become owners of the organizations for which they work so hard.
While we collect and share our findings, we also have a few other projects we are working on in hopes of creating a more sustainable future for us all. We have come across some wonderful things, and we're passionate about moving forward with these projects.
Let us be very clear: each one of these projects in the Incubator are at various stages of development. Most of these projects were worked on for years and then fell into dormancy as we set out to launch the Kombucha Project. We are very passionate about building these projects when the time, hands, and resources become available to see it done. If you want to get involved, we are always looking for like-minded, heart-centered folks with whom to share our findings.
Sociocracy - It's how we run our meetings!
Sociocracy is a method of governing that produces greater commitment, higher levels of creativity, distributed leadership, deeper harmony, and dramatically increased productivity. This is why we choose to manage our business with sociocratic models of operation. After learning about this type of governing, we adopted it as our main practice in cultivating our values and moving forward on projects. With this tool we make sure everyone's voice is heard and that all concerns are handled with care and focus. We have adopted the method outlined below from an organization called Sociocracy For All. Click here to learn more about what they have to offer. There is also an introductory video of what they teach that can be found below.
