Meet Our Members – Rogue Kombucha

Willie Kennon, Rogue Kombucha, Grants Pass, OR

Q: When did you first discover kombucha?

A: I started drinking kombucha around 2011

Q: Why did you start your own kombucha company?

A: A friend of mine started Rogue Kombucha back in 2013 and was making the best-tasting kombucha I had ever tasted. Unfortunately, in 2020, when the pandemic hit, he had to close his doors. He presented the opportunity for me to purchase the company from him, and I couldn’t stand to see such an amazing product that so many people loved disappear from our community. The price was right, and I saw the potential to create something big that could ‘Cultivate Change from Within.

Q: What is your favorite flavor of kombucha? 

A: Hopped Grapefruit by Humm

Q: What is your former/current other life or career? 

A: I am currently a Recreational marijuana farmer and father of 3

Q: What is a saying that you live by?

A: Don’t talk about it, be about it.