Combining tradition and science to create natural and effective remedies.
Tea of the Month Club (Curated) Teas are selected specifically for you, according to your personal preferences as indicated by your answers to the tea survey. A handwritten note explaining the why of the tea choice, further personalized depending on the extent of our interaction. Tea is sent consistently Continue Reading →
This tea exists for a very simple reason. I wanted to drink it. St. John’s is part of my everyday hot beverage rhythm and is probably my favourite workday black tea blend. I love the taste. This means I rig up a lot of cups of St. John’s plus other 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 →
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 →
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 →