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  • Benefits of Green Tea - Happy Earth Tea
    March 3, 2023

    Benefits of Green Tea

    Keeping our body and mind in balance can be challenging, especially when facing illness. Taking a holistic approach to understanding the underlining conditions of poor health rather than just treating the disease leads to better health ultimately
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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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  • Health Benefits of Drinking Tea and Herbals - Happy Earth Tea
    August 6, 2021

    Health Benefits of Drinking Tea and Herbals

    Many of you are interested in using plants to bolster health and combat disease. Therefore, I am excited to share that I recently completed a Medicinal Plants Certificate Program from Cornell University to increase my own knowledge, but also to...

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  • Health Benefits of Echinacea Tea - Happy Earth Tea
    March 2, 2021

    Health Benefits of Echinacea Tea

    During winter, we are always trying to find ways to stay healthy so for the past several months we have been routinely drinking our Echinacea tea and can happily report that we have not had a sniffle! As I began doing research on this botanical, I was astounded about how widely used it has been for hundreds of years.
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  • Learn More About Our Ceylon Black Tea - Happy Earth Tea
    October 9, 2020

    Learn More About Our Ceylon Black Tea

    Way back in the late 1800’s Sri Lanka, formerly known as Ceylon, started growing and producing tea. It was a sleepy little enterprise until it gained the attention of an entrepreneurial Scot. This individual whose name would become synonymous with tea was none other than Sir Thomas Lipton. Sir Lipton was already rich because of his chain of grocery stores which started in Scotland and eventually spread throughout Britain. Though as a shrewd businessman Lipton wanted to cut out the middle-men and buy tea directly from producers to make tea affordable for the untapped working class market.
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