Combining tradition and science to create natural and effective remedies.
As has been stated prior, sometimes new tea happens somewhat randomly here. The day the first test blend of this was created had been a pretty bad one for me. By the time Mister Tea got home I could barely form words, the pain was so bad. I certainly had Continue Reading →
We’d known we wanted a cinnamon cocoa from the moment we realized we could make cocoas. Given our experiences with trying ground whole herb for our ‘Wicked Cocoa‘ we initially shied away from using cinnamon powder. Thought it might make the end result a bit chewy. Eventually we realized that Continue Reading →
This tea is another first for us. Mister Tea made the first test batch. This is his first tasty tea creation. I’d had a truly terrible day. The sort of day that is made of so much pain and angst and misery that there’s not enough processing left for anything Continue Reading →
Being a caregiver for someone with a chronic illness sucks. There, I said it. Watching someone you know and love live in constant pain, or watching them slip away from themselves and who they’ve always been is a battle in and of itself. Nothing can prepare you for watching Continue Reading →
If you are familiar with Desert Sage Natural and our work, you are aware that I create a lot of teas. Possibly too many teas. At least when considered from a storage perspective. For each new blend, we create a loose tea sample, a teabag sample, a single teabag, Continue Reading →
‘Embers’ was a first for me. Not our first chai, we’ve created quite a few of those, due to my semi-fixation on the spice set involved. This was, however, the first time Mister Tea had actively sought a chai for himself. It began, as many of our teas do, with Continue Reading →
Chronic illness is hard. Strangely enough, that is actually something that needs to be said. In the first world we are trained to expect answers. Honestly, I think that this training is part of why chronic illness is so hard to deal with – both by the people living with Continue Reading →
Many many moons ago, in the vicinity of when we began the whole adventure that is Desert Sage Natural – a friend wanted to use one of our standard teas – but was hoping for a pregnancy. The tea in question had a warning regarding pregnancy. So she asked if Continue Reading →
From time to time I pick up a new ingredient somewhat randomly. Our suppliers sometimes offer free shipping for over a certain amount, that kind of thing. Cranberries were one of these “I bet I could work with this” choices. The first test for strength of taste from the cranberries Continue Reading →
Back in the early days of Desert Sage Natural, we made ‘Beauxbaton’s Blend‘ – and the thought occurred at the time that we should make teas for the Hogwarts houses, as well as for Durmstrang. It got added to the burgeoning tea ideas file and… sat there. For a really Continue Reading →