Combining tradition and science to create natural and effective remedies.
Gift of the Gloaming’s story began, as many of the tales of my teas do, with a combination of desire and need. I wanted a comforting tea taste, in this case one specifically involving smoke – but I also very desperately needed to relax. As Into the Dark Woods combined Continue Reading →
May’s theme was chosen the moment I decided the Soft Reopen was going to happen on the 6th. May was about reclamation. May was about rediscovery. May was also about being completely overwhelmed by some of my more ambitious choices and high expectations for myself. These things combined, even Continue Reading →
I love it when randomness turns into really good tea. 8-393 started, as so many of my blends do, with a tea survey. In this case it was for a single teabag sampler, rather than the more frequent Tea of the Month Club. It continued as a reason to throw Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →