Steep It Loose — WHOLE LEAF TEA

As a tea manufacturer with an active online store and customer support team, we’ve listened to thousands of customers looking to buy tea online over the past 15 years. Below are some brief guidelines to help make this process easier for beginner online tea shoppers. Happy sipping!

The story of tea begins in Yunnan, a mountainous and remote region of southwestern China. In 2737 BCE the revered Emperor Shennong (meaning “Divine Farmer”) discovered that the leaves of wild tea trees, when brewed, made an invigorating and enlivening elixir.  Folklore has it that one afternoon, Shennong sat down to take a rest under a Camellia sinensis tree and boiled some water to drink (he is credited with saving his population from the plague by mandating that all water be boiled before it was consumed). Leaves from the tea tree above him floated down into the pot of boiling...

Tea is a plant-based beverage, of course. It is harvested from the leaves of Camellia sinensis, one of the few woody evergreen plants to go dormant in winter. Winter dormancy, which happens in Camellia sinensis when days are shorter than 11 h 15 minutes, lasts for at least six weeks every year. It’s an important biological feature for Camellia sinensis to survive cold winters, and also affects the economic output of the tea plant.  The new growth, tender shoots and buds of the plant, are what’s harvested and processed as tea. Tea is picked during specific growing seasons - early and late Spring and then...

Our company exists to help empower wellness through tea. We develop every product with this mission as our goal.  For 2021, we've reformulated our beloved Cold Buster herbal blend to a base of elderberries. The berries and flowers of elderberry are packed with antioxidants and vitamins. It has been used medicinally for centuries to fight infections, clear up complexions, and boost immunity. This rich source of phytochemicals is considered by some to be a holy grail solution for treating colds and the flu. Elderberries come from an elder tree variety indigenous to Europe, known as Sambucus. *Please note that elderberry...