Have you heard of water kefir?

Here’s some great info to get you started from the Healthy Home Economist, Cultures for Health, and Keeper of the Home (her photo).

I have been reading about this fr a while, and was interested… But not willing to shell out to purchase the starter grains online, since I had no idea how it would work out.

Then I saw an ad on our local Freecycle list – someone offering starter batches of water kefir grains, since hers had multiplied. Yay!

We exchanged emails, and I learned that she was a kindred spirit. She said,

BTW, I saw your blog. We are also a gluten free, Christian, homeschooling family of wannabe homesteaders! Very cool.

Hopefully we will get to know her and her family better!

So I now have a batch of water kefir happily fermenting on the kitchen counter.

We’ll find out how well it works out in a couple of days…