Combining tradition and science to create natural and effective remedies.
The tea survey was, on some levels, a brilliant idea. Most of the feedback I’ve received indicates that my skillset, when combined with the questions I asked, allows me to curate teas for other humans quite well. One way in which it is incredibly helpful is also one of the Continue Reading →
The story of Eureka: Smoky Monkey began more years ago than I want to think about right now. It started, as many of my teas do, with a tea survey. In this particular case the list of favourite teas quite frankly terrified me. Silver Needle. Golden Monkey. Things I had Continue Reading →
2-116 is a blend of orange peel, cinnamon, and High Mountain Green Tea. The reason for its creation was a fairly simple one. When someone I care about is sick, helping them to feel better is rather a priority. When there’s a specific request for something I can make or Continue Reading →
If you’ve been following the process of rebuilding Desert Sage Natural at all, you’ve probably caught at least a couple of mentions of the Tea of the Month Club. Each month I plan to write up a brief introduction to the tea chosen for the prior month’s standard tea club. Continue Reading →
There are a handful of teas that do not have a tremendously detailed backstory. In the beginning, there was a hyper-focus on purpose, especially in the days of making only useful teas that tasted good, rather than teas specifically for taste. Frankly, at the very beginning, the teas didn’t have Continue Reading →
The story of this tea is a relatively short one. In my quest for decaffeinated versions of the teas, I realized that I could make my own decaffeinated genmaicha. This was a staggeringly cool concept as I need to cut back on the amount of caffeine I intake and one Continue Reading →
Hershel’s Gift has been around for so long that it is hard to process that there was a time when I did not have it easily to hand for sickness – whether it was for me or for someone close to me. I’ve jested for years that I would feel Continue Reading →
Sometimes when I get to the bottom of a tin of something there isn’t enough left to make a proper cup. However, I hate wasting tea. Depending on what was in a tin, I will drop it in on top of one of my foundational teas. In the case of Continue Reading →
The Tea of the Month Club has been around for quite some time now. It wasn’t an idea that was there in the beginning, it was something that came up later, after the realization that I create a lot of teas. So many teas. Possibly even too many teas, depending Continue Reading →