Tea 101

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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January 27, 2023

Why is tea good for you? The health benefits of tea.
In this article we will focus on the health benefits of tea, a glorious infusion of leaves from the tea plant, camellia sinensis steeped in hot water. Tea is one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world and...
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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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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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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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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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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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September 17, 2020

Teas for Intermittent Fasting
For the past couple of months there has been quite a lot of buzz about intermittent fasting. Sadly, COVID has disrupted many of our daily routines and forced us to adopt more sedentary lifestyles which has resulted in weight gain for many of us. We’ve had a number of inquiries asking which teas should be used during fasting periods and we’ll share our insights today.
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July 14, 2020

Baozhong Wenshan Oolong and Best Ways to Prepare it
One of our favorite teas to sip on when the mercury starts scaling the roof is Baozhong Wenshan oolong. There was a heat wave this past week here in upstate NY, and after a few days of respite, we have another one in the forecast. If you are looking to cool off with tea, reach for Baozhong.
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