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Origins: Tea Cultivation Takes Root in Oregon’s Willamette Valley
Tucked away near Oregon’s Willamette River in Salem, is Minto Island Tea Company: a nearly half acre plot of land containing Camellia sinensis var. sinensis bushes. More botanic laboratory than tea farm, it’s a 29-year-old science project and the only place in the state of Oregon where tea is being cultivated and sold.
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The Matcha Revolution: Baby Powder, Plastic Blankets and ¥3,000 Yen
The thousands of articles and blogs on matcha fall into two main groups: “Wow!” and “What?” Wow focuses on some […] Read More
Tea Nuances: Exploring the World of Green Tea Blends
We all know that green tea is healthy. However, most of us have only unearthed a fraction of the green […] Read More
Old Age: Live Well – and Drink Tea
The health benefits of tea are increasingly established. Even discounting the extreme claims of its being a magic cure for […] Read More
Of Family & Tea: Novelist Lisa See’s Tea Journey
Six-time New York Times bestselling author, Lisa See, loves tea so much that she wrote a novel with Pu-erh tea as its historical background. This comes as no surprise if one knows the See family’s journey, of immigrants in the Wild West and Chinatown with a dash of Hollywood, intertwined with tea.
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