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Happy Earth Day  At Good Life Tea, like everyone else, we care about mother earth. Here are some of the things we have done. All our lighting is LED - Saves tons of electricity.  Added benefit - The old light bulbs were hot and in the summer our A/C does not have to work as hard - saving on peak electricity - the most polluting kind. Our suppliers pitch in too.  Our Canadian supplier generates most all their electricity through solar panels.  Another gives 1% to to organizations to protect our earth.  We stock organic teas.   Organic teas are more environmentally friendly...

Become Internet Famous Post a picture of yourself enjoying a cup of tea prefereably, Good Life Tea and use the hashtag #GoodLifeTea on your instagram. We will find it and repost it on our Instagram and maybe on our FB page too. Visit our Instagram account to see what others are posting. Win a Prize We will randomly choose 3 winners for a $15 Gift Certificate on Saturday 5/28/16 at 5 PM EST.  It can be used in-store or online. Make sure we see your smile and your cup of tea. Put something interesting in the caption too and don't forget...

Call it popped rice tea. If America is symbolized by baseball and apple pie, then Japan's symbols are rice and tea. Genmaicha is just that.  It's green tea blended with roasted and popped white rice. This blended tea creates a nice balance of the vegetal flavors of the green tea with the nutty, somewhat sweet flavor of the rice.  The roasted rice sometimes pops, not unlike popcorn, leading to the nickname "popped rice tea". Genmaicha is also called "poor man's tea".  Rice was added to green tea as a filler, to make the very expensive tea last longer.  It also added a...

The Japanese Cherry Blossom Festival  Every spring all across Japan, as the weather gets warmer, there is great anticipation for the blooming of the Cherry Blossoms which marks the passing of winter and the arrival of spring.  The anticipation is just like when you were in school and counted down the days to summer vacation or counted the days to Christmas. You just couldn't wait for it happen.   When the trees blossom, the party begins. All over Japan people flock to parks to sit under the trees and take in spring and the joy of winter passing.Having lived in Japan as a...