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We sit down with the OG Kombucha Mama, Michelle Mitchell, co-founder of Bend’s own Humm Kombucha, to learn about Humm’s humble beginnings in Mitchell’s kitchen experimenting with brewing kombucha, to how big the kombucha market has become and where it fits into today’s wellness drink landscape.

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This article appears in Source Weekly April 17, 2025.

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LISTEN: Grand Craft Bend: Michelle Mitchell

by Brian Yaeger, The Source - Bend, Oregon
April 17, 2025

<h1>LISTEN: Grand Craft Bend: Michelle Mitchell</h1> <p class="byline">by Brian Yaeger, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />April 17, 2025</p> <p>We sit down with the OG Kombucha Mama, Michelle Mitchell, co-founder of Bend's own Humm Kombucha, to learn about Humm's humble beginnings in Mitchell's kitchen experimenting with brewing kombucha, to how big the kombucha market has become and where it fits into today's wellness drink landscape.</p> <p><a href="https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/source-weekly1/episodes/Grand-Craft-Bend-Michelle-Mitchell-e31m5bf" target="_blank">Click here to </a><a href="https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/source-weekly1/episodes/Grand-Craft-Bend-Michelle-Mitchell-e31m5bf" target="_blank">LISTEN NOW</a></p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full aligncenter aligncenter"><a href="https://www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/michelle_mitchell_digital.webp"><img src="https://www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/michelle_mitchell_digital.webp" alt="" class="wp-image-4194" /></a></figure> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/listen-grand-craft-bend-michelle-mitchell-23017986/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=4193&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/listen-grand-craft-bend-michelle-mitchell-23017986/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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