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Chinese Green Tea Essay: How Poor Wilting Makes Ugly Tea

Chinese Green Tea Essay: How Poor Wilting Makes Ugly Tea

Finding Your Dancong Producer

Finding Your Dancong Producer

Dancong Production Dancong tea is unique in China primarily for its variety. Over 100 botanically distinct varietals are cultivated and marketed, w...
Jingdezhen 2022

Jingdezhen 2022

Jingdezhen, a small city in Guangxi province in mainland China, has been a major producer of Chinese porcelain for the past thousand years.  To this day, young artists and learned ceramicists flock to this city to study, experiment, learn, and sell their works.  However, when we visited in Summer of 2022, many locals we met and talked with had a very different opinion about this history of fame and its modern manifestations.

Tea starts here, in the fields, with the pickers, the farmers, the producers

We are committed to knowing as much as we can about each of the farms we work with.  We visit every farm, spend time with the producers, talk with the pickers, ask about farming techniques and local histories.