My Guest for episode 30 is Katherine Boucher one-half of the founders of The Jersey Tea Company, who are growers and producers of handcrafted organic single estate tea in Jersey. The Jersey Tea Company began in 2016 and is owned and run by two couples, Katherine and Terry Boucher and Michelle and Cardin Pasturel. As well as working on the tea farm they also have other careers as health professionals (Psychologists and Chiropractor) and in the finance industry. The Jersey Tea Company was foun...

Thomas Langnickel-Stiegler is a tea educator & consultant with over 10 years of experience working as a product specialist, educator and industry consultant with various projects at the forefront of what is sometimes referred to as the renaissance of loose-leaf tea in the Western world. Thomas was a founding partner and chief teaist for Paper & Tea based in Berlin, and from there went on to work as a Tea Specialist at Temial. A copywriter and public relations specialist by original p...

Annabel Kalmar is the founder of the Tea Rebellion which was started in 2017 to change the way tea is traded and to connect tea drinkers with tea farmers. Annabel developed a passion for improving farmers’ market access and incomes while studying agriculture and working in the fields of El Salvador and the Dominican Republic, harvesting coffee and interviewing farmers. Annabel believes in transforming things that don’t work. She noted that coffee and chocolate seemed to have gotten all the lo...

Anna Ye is a tea educator & speaker for private, corporate tea experiences and community tea events based in New York. Anna comes with years of hospitality and fine dining experience, having previously worked at Chikalicious and Restaurant Daniel. In 2017, her growing passion for tea lead her to join the team at In Pursuit of Tea– a high-end purveyor that sources loose leaf teas from around the world– where Anna came across the opportunity to curate and lead educational workshops ...

On today's show, I have Diana Zheng one-half of the founders of Three Gems Tea based in Los Angles. Ayumi and Diana started Three Gems Tea to make tea breaks easy and wanted to create something but keep it good, simple, and fun by sourcing delicious loose leaf teas from family farms and designing teaware with a pop to brighten your table. Their teas are grown in China and Taiwan, on family farms that use holistic growing practices and forgo pesticides. The teaware that they provide is...

This weeks show's guests are Vivian and Lorenzo the founders of Eastern Tea Leaves. The couple fell in love with an ancient tea forest ensconced in the dreaming mountains of southwest Yunnan. Eastern Leaves owns thirty hectares of wild tea plantation land in the mountains, which flourishes naturally in the undergrowth of centuries-old Yunnan high mountain forest. Their teas are fully organic, and they interfere as little as possible with the growth of their trees. This is the reason th...

Today's guest is Sergei Pegushin the founder of Chánnagasse Tea House, located in Vienna Austria. His tea house offers a variety of Chinese teas. Based on the traditional Chinese tea ceremony Gong fu Cha (工夫茶, Gōng fu chá). The premise of the teahouse is to offer guests a special tea experience, where they can sit and brew top-grade quality tea, inside the tea house. I came across Chánnagasse via Instagram and was immediately impressed with their humorous and out-of-the-box stori...

Today's episode is with Alessandra Rovetta a Tearista/ Tea Expert who works at Fortnum and Mason. Fortnum and Mason is a famous upscale department store in central London well known as an “essential destination for anyone in search of extraordinary food, exceptional service, and joy-giving things”. I'm a big fan of Fortnum and Mason and really enjoyed having afternoon tea there. Fortnum & Mason have recently launched a Bespoke Tea Blending Service which allows customers to cre...

In this one off coffee episode (It'll be back to tea next episode, I promise) I have the founders of Mikah Blue Coffee company, a family owned business lead by Investment Banker and Second generation Coffee Trader, Michael and his wife Shenika, both Jamaicans who now reside in the United Kingdom (UK) and Jamaica. The history of Mikah Blue Coffee company dates back thirty (30) years since 1990 when Michael's Uncle and Mentor Donald acquired lands in the Blue Mountains of St....

Today's guest is Regina Rivero the founder of OHA tea based in Mexico. Regina spontaneously started her tea business and has been running the business for 6 years, using a mix of local Mexican herbs and teas from around the world. Regina infuses live events with poetry, arts, and tea tasting sessions. Follow OHA on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oha.mx/ Check out Regina's website here: Website: https://oha.mx/ Support the show