#tea farms

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📷 Makena G.

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Camping and day visit experience in the tea farms of Tigoni in Limuru, Kenya.

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Darjeeling Oaks Autumn Floral | Tea Farms

A limited-edition Darjeeling Autumn cup is picked from Oaks Tea Estate, Darjeeling an Organic Tea Estate located at an altitude of 5500 FT tucked in the valley of Eastern Himalayan range also known as Muscatel Valley. This tea is made from rare Clonal bushes plucked during October when Autumn approaches in the upper ranches of the Himalayan valley. The tea brews into an orange coppery cup with a fruity note and gives you a sweet flavoury taste. Best time to drink A cup of Darjeeling Black Tea can be best enjoyed in the morning, during breakfast and during evening.

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11 Things to do in Wayanad - Kerala

11 Things to do in Wayanad – Kerala

1. Go on a road trip around Wayanad!

Wayanad can be best explored through a road trip with your all time buddies. I did the same and the outcome was outstanding. Few glimpses of our recent road trip to Wayanad…

Either side of the road would have such breathtaking landscapes!

Fall in love with misty weather of Wayanad (clicked in the month of July)

2. Visit Tea and Coffee farms

Wayanad is full of…

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Tea farms

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Mauna Kea Tea - Organic Green Tea Grown in Hawaii

When you think about Hawaii, you are not necessary thinking of tea growing. Mauna Kea Tea is a family-run organic tea farm which offers rare and unique loose leaf teas from grown on the Big Island of Hawaii. After extensive travel and study in tea production and culture, Take and Kimberly Ino founded Mauna Kea Tea to devote their lives and raise family, following the way of nature. Nature-centred farming encourages respect and appreciation of the plants as they are. Crops produced by natural farming methods have very little potential for contributing to pollution, and the soil fertility can be maintained indefinitely.

"Tea does not judge, it does not tell us if what we are doing is right or wrong. It is a mirror that reflects the attention and practices of the tea farmer."

Currently they are offering eight different tea which can be purchased online though their web site. Coconut Green Tea is made with real toasted coconut, this green tea is mild and subtle, yet deliciously sweet and rich. Organic Island Green Tea offers young tender leaves, picked and pan-fired for a fresh sweet flavour. Organic Sweet Roast Green Tea has natural sweetness and offers ease of use. It is also refreshing when iced. Organic Premium Green Tea has tender tips, it is hand-picked and pan-fired for delicate fresh flavour. Organic Premium Green – 2016 First Flush is fresh off the bushes, rare tips with pungent character. Organic Premium Oolong Tea has rare tender tips slowly roasted for floral aroma and smooth finish. Ginger and Turmeric Green Tea is fresh, fragrant Hawaiian ginger and turmeric add spice and richness to our very own Hawaii green tea. Organic Premium Green – 2015 First Flush has rare spring tips with pungent winter character. If you are interested in trying any of their teas, visit their web site.

By joining the USDA National Organic Program, Mauna Kea Tea testified that they adhere to a set of legally binding regulations set forth by the USDA. Being certified organic requires them to submit and follow a pre-approved production plan, which is reviewed by the certifying agency annually. Farm inspections occur periodically to guarantee they are following the pre-approved growing, production, storage, and handling methods as outlined in the national organic standard protocol.

Below are couple of notable loose leaf teas we liked from their collection:

Hawaii’s rich volcanic soil, abundant rain and warm tropical climate provide the optimal growing conditions needed for ginger and turmeric to become highly potent and flavourful.  Big Island ginger has an elegantly clean spice.  Turmeric’s mild bitterness blends well with distinct spice of ginger.We believe that great the health benefits of ginger and turmeric ultimately come from understanding their unique culinary properties, using them fresh to best preserve them, and being able to enjoy the complexity of flavours in this unique blend.  In many traditional cultures, use of such ingredients are deeply embedded into the food culture, where consuming healthy tea is just part of the daily ritual.Skillful production of tea is two fold, taming the inherent bitterness of antioxidants present in the raw tea leaf and expressing the subtle nuances of flavour through the presentation of brewed tea.  Blending tea is also an expression of balancing the flavors of a variety of beneficial compounds.  In addition to the Ginger and turmeric in this blend, we added Ceylon Cinnamon to highlight the clean taste while bringing out deeper flavour.

Ingredients:  Green Tea, Ginger, Coconut, Ceylon Cinnamon, Turmeric, Black pepper

Sweet Roast Green Tea is where our humble yet innovative minds meet the old tradition of tea making. It is our process of finding extraordinary characteristics in otherwise forgotten varieties.We start with selecting tea varieties with strong body, sweetness and low astringency. Our unique drying and roasting process make these characteristics release more easily while enhanceing the natural sweetness of the tea. While it makes excellent hot tea, it is exceptionally refreshing chilled.Selection of plant varieties is not only cruicial for developing the unique flavor of Sweet Roast Green Tea, but also makes plants which are less susceptible to pests and disease. Their natural resistance minimizes the need for outside inputs and keeps them clean.

$6.00–$12.00USD

Selected for natural sweetness and ease of use. Also refreshing when iced.

Tea: Green Tea - Pan fired; Leaf: 100% Hawaii Grown, Certified Organic; Field: Honokaa, Hawaii; Harvest: Summer-Fall

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Even being at the paradise of tea farms, my tea buying adventures are still very strenuous. Today, I have been mosquito food for maybe the entire village of mosquitoes already. I am also fighting the desire to suddenly pass out into sleep, whilst drinking some of the strongest tea known to mankind. Mr.Zhang and various villagers drop in to find out about some real information they are curious about but can’t get, such as how much cars cost in the U.S. An average automobile that costs $35,000 USD can cost $75,000 easily in China. The middlemen make a killing. Yet their income tax is something like 3%. What about that election next year, they want to know? As long as it’s not a Bush again, they mused. Why hasn’t the U.S. attacked North Korea if they are so against Communist governments? Simple, I replied, without any basis for my opinion. No oil there, and it’s a monarchy, not a Communist country. It’s impoverished as hell and it will implode anyway, the tea villagers reasoned. The conversation turned once again to Xi Jin Ping’s crackdown on the corruption. Government offices can no longer buy 1000 RMB a Jin teas for office consumption( about $180 a lb). The offices I know in the U.S. serve Lipton teabags at 10 cents each.... Well, the cultural exchanges at every farm are always very interesting. According to the villagers, no foreigners ever come there to buy these authentic, but expensive, highly prestigious Wuyi teas. They buy fake stuff from import companies. No one even goes there from Hong Kong, or Beijing, for that matter. I might as well be Alien Visitation. I am teaching myself to master the final hurdle, I told them - the strongest tea in the universe, Rougui tea. For that reason alone, I just travelled some 10,000 miles, fighting mosquitoes and possible purse snatchers along the way. Why not? What would I be doing in the Bay Area today otherwise? Go get tomatoes at the farmer’s market?

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Mauritius-Lake And Tea farms