Verdant Tea

Tea craft starts in the fields. To really appreciate how tea tastes, you need to ask: how is tea grown? Planting and farming practices make the differ[...]

Most of the tea industry in Fuding relies on either greenhouse heat or actual applied heat to dry their tea quickly enough to stop it from oxidizing. [...]

This article is a bit more “behind the scenes.” If you’ve browsed our site, you might have noticed quite a bit of Tibetan teaware - including Ni[...]

Most roasted teas are simply baked to get that dark flavor. The electric ovens common in the industry might make roasting faster, but as Mr. Li explai[...]

Over hundreds of years, people realized that tea was sweeter and more delicious with processing than it was fresh or simply dried. Now, this insight i[...]

The yixing pot is surprisingly “faithful” to the tea, bringing in all the aromatics and textural complexity that you get out of porcelain, but end[...]

The best value in porcelain teaware comes from De Hua, the site of dozens of ancient kilns that rivaled Jingdezhen. While Jingdezhen porcelain’s fir[...]

“This year is unique. The Da Tian harvest (picked after the greenhouses come down) is much later. Normally, it is mid-April. This year, it is two we[...]

In March and April of 2020, we outlined our plan to continue our mission: to serve and advocate for the talented and passionate small family farmers t[...]

The He Family is pleased to announce that they have wrapped up a great 2020 spring harvest. This year’s weather was very cool. The persistent coo[...]