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This guide covers everything you need to know to make probiotic-rich milk kefir using milk kefir grains. With over 15 years of experience, we share proven methods to help your grains thrive so you can enjoy healthy kefir for life.

Available as:

• Downloadable PDF
• Printed booklet (A5, with shipping cost)

Please choose your preferred format below.

If purchasing our KoruKai Milk Kefir Grains or our Milk Kefir Kit this Guide is included with your purchase.

One of the most powerful things you can do for your health, well-being and longevity is fasting.
During fasting you are giving your digestive system a rest and allowing your body to literally take the rubbish out.

In this eguide you will find helpful advise in regard to juice fasting. It will cover the benefits of fasting, the transition period, juice fasting guidelines, recipes and a shopping list to prepare you and guide you on your journey. Please see more details below.

This eguide is also part of a Juice Fasting Support Pack. To view and buy the support pack please click here.

This is an ebook and will be available as a pdf to download once you placed your order.

Everything you need to start making refreshing, probiotic water kefir at home. This complete kit includes dried water kefir grains, a glass fermentation jar, airlock system, strainer, kefir food, and a detailed guide with instructions and recipes.

Water kefir is the vegan cousin of milk kefir and the caffeine-free alternative to kombucha. These live cultures can be used again and again to create refreshing, naturally fizzy probiotic drinks at home.

Easy to make and endlessly versatile, water kefir is a great way to support gut health while creating delicious homemade sodas, fruit ferments, and flavoured drinks.

The Ultimate Dairy Yoghurt Guide

Learn how to turn dairy milk into healthy and delicious natural yoghurt without any additives.

With recipes turning yoghurt into a variety of soft cheeses and dips and using it for baking to enhance nutrient availability and flavour.

This eGuide contains 40 pages of detailed instructions and links to demonstration videos on how to make thermophilic and mesophilic yoghurt on a perpetual basis as well as recipes to turn your yoghurt into special dishes - from yoghurt icing for a cake to yoghurt cheese balls and labneh (please find the table of contents below).

This is an ebook and will be available as a pdf to download once your order is placed.

Available again in July 2026. Sign up below to join the waiting list.

Bulbine frutescens
Family: Asphodelaceae
Common names: Burn jelly plant, stalked bulbine, snake flower, cat’s tail

Burn Jelly Plant is a hardy, waterwise perennial valued for both its ornamental beauty and traditional medicinal uses. With its succulent foliage and cheerful star-shaped flowers, it makes an excellent ground cover, especially when planted en masse or used in rock gardens and dry landscapes. Easy to grow and drought tolerant, it is a popular addition to low-maintenance gardens.

pH strips are a quick and easy way to check the acidification of your cheese and ferment.

In a lactic ferment and in cheese making beneficial microbes are underway to turn plant sugars and lactose into lactic acid.

This acidification can be measured and ensures your ferment or your cheese is on the right track.

For most cheeses timing of salting is really important; you want the fermentation to be just at the right acidity before you apply salt to slow it down.

Available again in March/April 2027. Please sign up below to join the waiting list.

Elephant Garlic (Allium ampeloprasum)
Family: Alliaceae

Elephant Garlic is becoming increasingly popular for its large bulbs and mild, distinctive flavour. Easier to grow than true garlic, it produces reliable crops in a wide range of home gardens and is well suited to New Zealand conditions.

Each pack contains 3 seed cloves.

Organically grown at KoruKai Herb Farm without the use of chemical fertilisers, pesticides, herbicides, or fungicides.

100ml capacity, 10ml increments starting at 20ml.

We find this beaker ideal to measure your natural mesophilic and thermophilic cheese making culture, where you will need 100ml for 10 litres of milk. With spout for easy pouring. 

Measurements: 7cm high, 5cm diameter

Available again in July 2026. Sign up below to join the waiting list.

Rumex acetosa
Family: Polygonaceae
Common names: Sorrel, Garden Sorrel, Lemon Sorrel

Sorrel is a hardy perennial herb known for its fresh, lemony flavour and vibrant green leaves. It is supplied as a dormant root cutting during winter, with little or no foliage visible at the time of purchase. The plant will re-emerge in spring and grow into a lush, productive clump.

In the first season, harvest leaves lightly to allow the plant to establish well, and remove any flower stalks to encourage ongoing leaf production. After approximately one year, the plant can be lifted and divided to produce multiple new plants.

Bamboo mat suitable for natural cheese making and sushi making.

Can be cut to size to suit your container.

Measurements: 24cm x 24cm

We’ve created this DIY kit for anyone wanting to make their own raw apple cider vinegar at home.

Making apple cider vinegar is simple, rewarding, and a great way to enjoy its many natural health benefits. Unlike many supermarket varieties that are pasteurised and filtered, homemade vinegar retains the “mother” — the living culture and beneficial microbiome that give raw apple cider vinegar its full character and potential benefits.

Available again from July 2026 — sign up below to join the waiting list.

Jerusalem Artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus), also known as sunchoke or sunroot, is a hardy edible sunflower grown for its delicious, nutritious tubers.

Our Jerusalem artichokes are grown naturally at KoruKai Herb Farm without synthetic fertilisers, pesticides, or herbicides.

Each order contains 3 tubers. Choose either 3 small or 3 large tubers using the options below.

Growing instructions can be found here and below.