For the Wounded & the Lost (Baker Street Blend, Elderberries, Vanilla)
The origin story of For the Wounded & the Lost, an organic blend of black teas, elderberries, and vanilla. Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Fruit
Monster Slayer: Purple Worm (Guarana, Alfalfa, Elderberry, Eleuthro)
Some tea series have specific (and often long) stories for each of the teas made with the initial foundational blend. So far, the Monster Slayer series does not function like that. The primary reason for this is that so many flavour options spun out of the initial conversations that they Continue Reading →
Wednesday’s Child (Organic Coconut Elderberry Black Tea)
The story of Wednesday’s Child begins with a mood board. A friend has been on a stash-busting kick, and said over-arching project has produced many awesome things. The gnomes that are heading out over the of the week are one, and the scarf that the mood board was created for Continue Reading →
Fire in the Sky (Organic Smoky Elderberry Herbal Chai)
I love the tea of the month club. This is a thing that is likely painfully clear if you’ve been with me on this tea journey for any length of time. I love curating the selections, I love all the ideas that have been inspired by the surveys, I love Continue Reading →
Traveller’s Porridge (Organic Elderberry Genmai)
This tea began in a rare place. The seeds of it came from the sense of being listened to – but not in the moment. This was a circumstance where I felt like I had been listened to in a prior life-frame and that things I had said had trickled Continue Reading →
Hershel’s Gift (Organic Elderberry Mint Herbal Tea)
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 →
(Named) Journal 2, Page 97 – Teas in Progress
One of the recurring inspirations for tea ideas is people talking about food on Twitter. I will read a description and some aspect of it (sometimes the entirety of it) will provoke the thought of “I bet this would make a good tea.” Most of the time when this happens, Continue Reading →