Tea Blog - Learn All About Tea — Eco-friendly Teas

5 Key Takeaways from this post:  Refill for Discounts: Customers near the store can refill their empty tea tins and enjoy a 5% discount, promoting sustainable reuse instead of single-use bags. Creative Gift Packaging: Old tea tins make great small gift boxes. After cleaning, they’re sturdy enough to protect delicate items and can be decorated with a bow for a festive look. DIY Plant Containers: Tea tins can be converted into mini planters for small plants like basil. By adding drainage holes, these tins can hold soil and serve as a creative herb garden or even be stacked for a...

Because We Care About Quality Many of our customers ask us why we don’t carry bagged tea.  It’s easy and convenient, and they consider themselves to be too busy to make loose tea a part of their lives.  The short answer is that it’s because we care about our customers, and the quality of our tea.  Tea bags constrict the leaves, preventing them from fully opening, and from fully imparting their flavor.  This isn’t a problem for most bagged tea, though, because it is already ground to dust.  Whole, loose-leaf tea has to be harvested more carefully in order to avoid...

Our customers occasionally ask us for tea bag and tea pyramids.  Our response is "Sorry we don't carry those." The reasons are quite simple.  Tea bags, while they are quite easy, they do not provide the best tea flavor possible. The tea in tea bag teas are called fannings, or tea dust, and they are produced mostly to give color and not flavor.  Open a tea bag up and look. You will find fine tea dust. It's a bit like comparing instant coffee to quality roasted coffee beans freshly grounded.  Tea bags, if you haven't guessed, is the instant coffee...