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  • Conventional Tea Farming Practices - Happy Earth Tea
    February 23, 2022

    Conventional Tea Farming Practices

    In our last blog post we talked about why we prefer organic methods of growing tea. This time we look into the common practices in tea gardens where tea is grown using "conventional" methods. Conventional farming is a term applied to agriculture where synthetic chemicals are used for crop management.
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  • Why Organic Tea? - Happy Earth Tea
    February 15, 2022

    Why Organic Tea?

    We prefer organic teas over conventional teas because of the positive impact it has on the ecology. The taste of the tea is even better, especially when you learn all the good that organic tea farming can bring. In place...

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  • Location matters for a tea garden - Happy Earth Tea
    September 19, 2019

    Location matters for a tea garden

    The quality of fine tea is dependent on many qualities, with sunlight, soil content, and elevation drastically effecting the finished product. A lesser known factor, however, is the direction a hill slopes while growing tea.
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  • What is Pu erh Tea? Part 1 - Sheng and Shou - Happy Earth Tea
    March 28, 2019

    What is Pu erh Tea? Part 1 - Sheng and Shou

    This is first of a 3 part series on Pu-erh tea.

    Pu-erh is fermented and aged tea that comes in a compacted form. Produced exclusively in Yunnan, the South-Western province of China, the tea is produced in two broad styles - raw (sheng), and ripe (shu). Sheng pu-erh is left to ferment naturally, while the fermentation in ripe or shu pu-erh is done in controlled factory settings.

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  • What is Pu erh Tea? Part 2 - Terrace vs Trees and the Packaging of Pu erh - Happy Earth Tea
    March 27, 2019

    What is Pu erh Tea? Part 2 - Terrace vs Trees and the Packaging of Pu erh

    In Yunnan, where the pu-erh exclusively comes from, there are a lot of very old tea trees. The tea plant, camellia sinensis, can grow to be tree if allowed. But it is a rare sight because in most parts of the world the tea plant is regularly pruned to keep it waist high for convenient picking of the leaves. Only in Yunnan, which also happens to be the birthplace of tea, old tea trees are a common occurrence.
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