Natural teas, brighter days
Four teas, each from one garden, in a carton that tells you how to steep it and nothing else.
One garden per tea, bought by name
We do not blend across gardens. Each of the four teas comes from one place we have visited, picked in one season, at a price the garden sets. The relationship is the quality control, and the name of the garden is on the back of every carton.
When a harvest is not good enough, that tea skips a year. It has happened twice.
Water, time, a small cup
Peach Blossom and Earl Grey take boiling water. Jasmine and oolong want it off the boil by a minute; wait, it is part of it. Three minutes for the herbal and the black, two for the white, and the oolong will take a second and third steep, longer each time.
Use a small cup. Tea tastes better in less. Hold it in both hands; that is the mindful part, and it is not complicated.
The four marks
A thin outlined circle with an accent dot. The cup, seen from above.
A scatter in varied sizes, in the colour of the tea.
A fine line with circular nodes: leaf, stem and blossom without drawing any of them.