Tea of the Month Club
Tea Club
Sharing the gift of tea is easy with a Tea Club subscription!
Just choose send this as a gift at checkout to include a personal note!
a MONTHLY CSA
from SMALL FAMILY TEA FARMERS
PACKED & CURATED
by our farmer partners
Our Tea of the Month Club Subscription box is full of hyper-seasonal teas and fresh, limited harvests. Teas are selected each month by a single farmer to highlight their family’s work, including club-exclusives and first looks, rush-shipped in for club members.
June's tea club box is picked, finished and curated by the He Family,
small family farmers based in Laoshan, Shandong
What do you get in your club gift box?
This is no ordinary Tea of the Month Club subscription box. This is a true tea CSA - a chance to support small, passionate tea farmers and enjoy their stunningly unique hand-picked, hand finished teas from beautiful, biodiverse microclimates.
Every month, your loved one will get at least three to ten teas that brew up dozens of pots of tea. Every tea is sourced straight from tea farmers who grew the teas, so they'll feel great knowing their new favorite cuppa supports sustainable agriculture and small family farming!
The first special gift box includes three classic favorites and an easy tea brewing guide. Upcoming boxes include fresh spring harvests, rush-shipped right after picking.
Enjoy 75g of loose leaf tea or more every month - enough for 30+ cups
Taste 3 to 10 teas picked out
by that month's farmer
Get free shipping
to the US
Subscription Plan Options
Tea of the Month Club Subscription
Available as a $35 monthly club box,
or reserve your box for 3, 6, or 12 months at a time and save extra.
Monthly clubs bill on the 15th each month, and ship within a week of billing. Free shipping is included with all US subscription boxes and tracking is provided by email once your box ships.
Tea of the Month Club Gift Box
Give the gift of tea with a monthly recurring subscription
or a three month, six month, or twelve month term gift shipment.
Gift boxes ship with your greeting card note, with messaging you can choose at checkout, and gift boxes include free shipping and tracking provided between the 15th and 20th each month.
Want to keep your gift a surprise? Select a date at check out to choose when your favorite tea lover gets a virtual card.
We are here to support your tea discovery with personal service for every plan.
Get in touch, and we’ll be there with tips and recommendations on all things tea. Who reads your emails? The owners, and our small team.
Verdant Tea of the Month Club Reviews
“Best Tea Subscription to Support Small Farms - As if a warm cup of tea didn't make you feel good enough, how about supporting only small tea farmers in the process? Verdant Tea Club functions like a CSA with teas that are selected each month from a single farmer to highlight their family's work."
– CNET.com, 6 Best Tea Subscriptions for National Tea Day
“I had such a fun time sampling the various teas from the Verdant Tea, Tea of the Month Club! I appreciated learning about the farmers and there was more info, and even some videos, of the teas and growers on the Verdant Tea website."
– Hello Subscription, Verdant Tea March 2022 Review: Celebrating The Birthplace of Black Tea!
“Whether you’re a casual tea drinker or an avid expert, it’s always lovely to enjoy exciting and rare teas that you might not be able to find anywhere else. Verdant Tea offers a variety of leaves that are sustainably and responsibly sourced. In addition, it’s clear that they ensure quality in every aspect...”
– Honest Brand Reviews, 10 Best Loose Leaf Tea Brands
“Tea Clubs that Help You Explore ... This small tea CSA offers an appealing tea subscription program. [Verdant Tea] focuses on sustainable farming. This includes an emphasis on biodiversity and economic sustainability. The individual farms even use traditional techniques when working with their fields to ensure the best possible outcomes.”
– Foodfornet, 35 Delicious Tea Subscription Boxes to Choose From
“What is most unique about this tea club, is that each month is entirely different from the last. Because each farmer gets to assemble the box, there will be anywhere from 3-15 different samples in each box. Some farmers decide to offer a wide variety of samples, while others want to give you a good taste of what they do.”
– Tea Perspective, Best Tea Subscription Box
“The folks at Verdant Tea have been importing and brewing seriously thoughtful flavors for years now, and their Tea of the Month Club offers a fascinating gateway into some of the best and most unusual teas that China has to offer.”
– The Heavy Table, 2017 Local Food Gift Guide
May 2024
special Mother's Day box!
In May, the Special Mother's Day tea club box includes three classic favorites and an easy tea brewing guide. As a bonus, Verdant Tea is running a special for Mother’s Day: share a 6-month or 12-month subscription, and we'll send you a $25 gift card!
This special club box will also include a unique coupon code to save on their favorite teas from May's club box!
June 2025
curated by the He Family
in Laoshan, Shandong
In June, the Tea Club box will be curated by the He Family in Laoshan, Shandong. This club box wil be filled with fresh 2025 spring harvests of classic Laoshan teas!
Club members will also receive a unique coupon code to save on teas in the He Family's Laoshan tea collection.
May 2025
curated by Li Xiaoping
in Shi Feng, Longjing, Zhejiang
In May, the Tea Club box will be curated by Li Xiaoping in Shi Feng (Lion's Peak) in Longjing Village, Zhejiang. This special seasonal club box will be filled a fresh 2025 spring tea harvests of Shi Feng Longjing teas!
Club members will also receive a unique coupon code to save on teas in Mrs. Li's Dragonwell tea collection.
April 2025
curated by the Li Family
in Wuyishan, Fujian
In April, the Tea Club box will be curated by the Li Family in Wuyishan, Fujian. This upcoming club box will be filled a variety of Wuyi oolong teas!
Club members will also receive an exclusive coupon code to save on teas in the Li Family's collection.
March 2025
curated by the Dongsa Coop
in Qianjiazhai, Mt. Ailao, Yunnan
In February, the Tea Club box will be curated by the Zhenyuan Dongsa Cooperative in Qianjiazhai in Mt. Ailao, Yunnan. This upcoming club box will be filled three small-format custom 100g pressings of pu'er tea created just for club members.
Club members will also receive a unique coupon code to save on teas in the Zhenyuan Dongsa Cooperative's collection.
In March, the Tea Club box will be curated by the Zhenyuan Dongsa Cooperative in Qianjiazhai in Mt. Ailao, Yunnan. This upcoming club box will be filled with black teas + more for club members.
Club members will also receive a unique coupon code to save on teas in the Zhenyuan Dongsa Cooperative's collection.
February 2025
curated by the Wu Family
in Wuyangcun, Fujian
In February, the Tea Club box will be curated by the Wu Family in Wuyangcun, Fujian. This upcoming club box will be filled with the family's white tea harvests, including new offerings!
Club members will also receive an exclusive coupon code to save on every tea in the Wu Family's collection.
January 2025
curated by Xingyang Workshop
in Pu'er, Yunnan
In December, the Tea Club box will be curated by Xingyang Workshop based in Pu'er, Yunnan. This upcoming club box will be filled with a variety of pressings and aged teas!
Club members will also receive an exclusive coupon code to save on every tea in Xingyang's collection.
December 2024
curated by Zhang Rongde
in Daping, Anxi, Fujian
In December, the Tea Club box was curated by Master Zhang Rongde in Daping, Anxi in Fujian. This club box was filled with all new fresh picked 2024 autumn harvests of Anxi oolong teas, along with a special aged tea!
Club members also received an exclusive coupon code to save on every tea in Master Zhang's collection.
March 2023
curated by the Cheng Family
in Guixicun, Qimen, Anhui
In March, the Tea Club box will be curated by our newest partners in Qimen, Anhui! We are super excited to get to introduce the Cheng Family and their wonderful Qimen black teas. Club members will be the first to taste their teas in this special club box!
Club members will also receive a unique coupon code for exlusive member only savings.
November 2022
curated by the He Family
in Laoshan Village, Shandong
In November, the Tea Club box will be curated by the He Family in Laoshan, Shandong. This upcoming club box will be filled fresh new 2022 autumn harvests of reserve Laoshan teas!
Club members will also receive an exclusive coupon code to save on every tea in the He Family's collection.
August 2022
curated by the Lu Family
in Laoshan, Shandong
In August, the Tea Club box will be our newest partners, the Lu Family in Laoshan! Friends and neighbors of our oldest partners, the He Family, the Lu Family will be filling their first box with a variety of their unusual and creative native Laoshan teas.
Club members will be the first to taste teas from our newest partners!
March 2022
curated by the Li Family
in Wuyishan, Fujian
In March, the Tea Club box will be curated by the Li Family in Wuyishan, Fujian. This upcoming club box will be filled a variety of Wuyi black teas - including both classic and more unusual cultivars!
Club members will also receive an exclusive coupon code to save on teas in the Li Family's collection.
February 2022
curated by the Liu Family
in Longjuan, Anxi
In February, the Tea Club box will be curated by the Liu Family in Longjuan, Anxi in Fujian Their upcoming club box will be filled a variety of Tieguanyin teas - including both new and aged oolong as well as experimental black teas!
Club members will also receive an exclusive coupon code to save on teas in the Liu Family's collection.
December 2021
curated by Zhang Rongde
in Daping, Anxi, Fujian
In December, the Tea Club box will be curated by Master Zhang Rongde in Daping, Anxi in Fujian. This upcoming club box will be filled with all new fresh picked 2021 autumn harvests of Anxi oolong teas!
Club members will also receive an exclusive coupon code to save on every tea in Master Zhang's collection.
Coming up: Winter 2024
Upcoming tea clubs feature new harvests of autumn tea along with cozy picks for cold weather! Club members will enjoy new seasonal teas from Zhang Rongde in Daping, Anxi as well as aged + pressed offerings from Xingyang Workshop and beyond!
Want to see what we shared in past months? Review past shipments (coming soon!) >>
SPOTLIGHT:
our oldest partners -
the He Family in Laoshan Village
Mr. He in Laoshan Village remembers when his father struggled to even grow enough food on their land to feed the family. Now Mr. He’s work in tea has raised up the whole village, and helped to establish a shared workshop space for tea finishing.
By partnering with Verdant, Mr. He is able to take risks on new growing techniques like Laoshan oolong that are bringing national attention to the new growing region. Today, his now internationally famous tea provides a living for his entire family and the cooperative that has grown up around it, and inspired local regulations to declare Laoshan an environmentally protected growing region.
Mr. He in his tea fields
He Qingqing and her mother in the workshop
Mr. He works while his granddaughter watches
What makes good tea?
Ms. Li and her mother climb their trees to pick in Qianjiazhai
Good People
The best tea in the world takes the skill and care of people committed to what they do, people who own their land and control their entire process without being hidden or controlled by a brand.
Craft starts in the fields.
Our partner farmers work over generations to care for their land, encourage biodiversity, plant the right tea for their climate, use clean organic and sustainable techniques, and pick every bud and leaf entirely by hand.
Native plants grow alongside tea in the Zhang Family's fields
Craft continues in the workshop.
It takes generations of accumulated knowledge to perfect the skills to finish tea. Our partners craft every batch by hand and adjust their technique to match the harvest and the weather. Some of their teas take over 40 hours of straight finishing work to bring one batch from fresh leaf to finished tea, and months or years more for some aged teas.
Shui Huamin finishes Dragonwell for his featured green tea of the month club
All this so that - no matter how you brew - your tea tastes perfect.
Brewing great tea takes no fuss. Our partner farmers got all the hard work out of the way!
Our partners pick and finish their teas with smooth, rich flavor and aroma in mind - no matter how you brew.
Try our one simple loose leaf tea challenge:
Take the leaves, put them in your favorite mug or tempered glass, add hot water and enjoy. No timers, no thermometers, no scales, no worries.Even brewed this simply, these teas are packed with rich flavor and aroma.
That’s because they are the true work of real small farmers - our partners and co-founders - not the work of big plantations with a mechanized processes. These will change the way you think about the tea you drink, and about tea farming.
ABOUT VERDANT TEA
Verdant Tea is a farmer-first tea company and community founded in 2011 after co-founders David and Lily met co-founders Weiwei Ren and Wang Huimin on a research grant to collect the folklore of tea and interview farmers about their craft.
Verdant has represented many of the same farmers for over a decade, and has offices in China and Minnesota to serve both the farmers we export for and the tea lovers we ship to.
Verdant is co-owned in China by tea farmer He Qingqing, ensuring that farmers decide how much they need to be compensated for their craft and what teas they want to create and share.
co-founders Lily Duckler, Weiwei Ren, Wang Huimin
Verdant Tea co-owner He Qingqing
co-founders David Duckler and Lily Duckler
What makes this the best tea of the month club out there?
What makes this tea club program unique?
Verdant’s CSA-style tea of the month club is unlike any other subscription tea box in the world.
We’ve been working with many of the same farmer families for over fifteen years, and turn over complete control each month to our farmer friends and partners to curate. This means that every member gets to benefit from our decades of relationship building by getting direct access to the freshest, most unique teas in the world, direct from award-winning small farmers growing tea on stunning, clean and biodiverse land, hand-picking and finishing every leaf.
When our partners can plan on sending you a tea box ahead of time, they can take risks with daring and experimental new processing and finish styles that push the boundaries on the art of tea, or allocate unusual cultivars that normally never make it to market. Their outreach and curation brings recognition back to their community, and in return, we all get to enjoy teas unlike anything else out there, from the hand-fired oolongs to unique herbal teas finished using traditional tea craft.
Where do your teas come from? Is this an organic tea of the month club?
Our loose leaf tea is picked crafted and packed by small family farms we’ve been working with for over a decade all across China.. All our partners exceed organic standards, employing biodiversity strategies, wild-foraging, and environmental stewardship. Learn more about organic tea practices>>
Our partners send their tea to our fulfillment center near Laoshan Village in Shandong, where it is then sent on to our US-forwarding center in Minnesota.
Your loose leaf tea of the month club boxes are assembled and sent directly to you from the United States, where our customer service team is based in Saint Paul, MN.
We give you the direct-from source transparency and unique product of a China-based company with the support and care of a US-based company.
The best tea of the month club and the best of both worlds!
What is normally included in a monthly shipment?
Because each box is curated by the farmer like a CSA, each month’s offerings will look a little different. This club is an opportunity to connect with a real farmer, learn more about their goals and taste and sample their teas.
Every member will receive at least three kinds of tea and at least 75 grams of tea total, enough for about 30 cups of tea. Some farmers may choose to offer a wider array of samples to give you the best exposure to what they do, so you could receive up to 15 different samples in a given box. The total tea will still be 75g or more.
As directed by each of our partners, we will include any information they want you to know about what they do, and usually, coupons to use on their collections on our website.
Expect anything from white tea, green tea, oolong, single-origin pu’er to workshop pu’er blends to select herbal teas finished using traditional tea craft - every selection represents the very best of whichever farmer is curating each month. That said, our partners always avoid a strictly herbal tea of the month club, including traditional loose leaf tea in every box!
How does shipping and payment work?
When you sign up for a recurring monthly subscription for the tea club, you will enter your payment information.
Recurring subscriptions will be billed $35 at check out upon sign up; this first charge will apply to your first box, which will ship around the 15th of the month without billing your card again. For all subsequent months, subscriptions will bill on the 15th of each month. You can update your credit card information or change your shipping address any time before your subscription bills each month.
Shipping is free to all US addresses.
When you sign up for a bulk subscription of the tea club, you will enter your payment information and complete payment for either 3-months, 6-months, or 12-months at checkout.
Your tea club boxes will ship around the 15th of each month.
Personal bulk subscriptions will renew after the original period - we will contact you at the end of your original bulk subscription period before renewal. Please let us know at this time if you would like to update your subscription at this time or put in on hold and take a break.
Gift subscriptions will receive teas for one bulk subscription term by defualt, without an automatic renewal and without a renewal reminder.
When will I receive my tea?
Tea club boxes will be shipped within one week of the 15th of each month.
Select club boxes - for example April, May and September club boxes - will usually ship later in the month due to the timing of the very fresh seasonal harvests that are included in those months. We will alert club members via email whenever the ship date will not occur within one week of the 15th of that month.
Once shipped, transit times vary by country. Every monthly box ships with full tracking info to ensure that they arrive promptly at your door.
For select international destinations, we can bundle your monthly tea club boxes together bi-monthly or quarterly in order to minimize your shipping costs. Please contact us directly if you would like us to use a custom international shipping option for your subscription.
Can you ship outside of the United States?
Yes, we can!
International delivery costs vary by country, and the monthly delivery charge will show at checkout based on your specific destination. See our full shipping FAQ to learn more.
For many international destinations, we can bundle your monthly tea club boxes together bi-monthly or quarterly in order to minimize your shipping costs.
Please contact us directly if you would like us to use a custom international shipping option for your subscription.
Transit times vary by country. Every monthly box ships with full tracking info to ensure that they arrive promptly at your door.
How should I brew my club teas?
Every club box comes with brewing instructions recommended by our partner-farmers.
Looking for iced tea tips? We’ve got you covered with iced tea recipes on our blog and more tea brewing tips.
Every club box comes with enough tea for at least 30 cups, so feel free to experiment. You’ll discover new flavor notes and aroma in every sip.
Can I give this as a tea of the month club gift?
Absolutely! This unique subscription box celebrates the complexity and art of tea from small family farmers and makes for perfect loose leaf tea sampler gifts.
Simply select one of the Gift Subscription options and enter your lucky recipient's info at checkout. We will ship their first box with your message included, with the option to send a virtual greeting card to the recipient at whatever time you specify at checkout.
Will I see my subscription if I sign into my account?
Club members who subscribed before November 15th, 2021 will be able to see their tea club subscription under the "Tea Subscription" section of your customer account page.
New members will not yet see your club subscription under My Account - we are in the middle of upgrading out Tea Club, so look out for updates soon! In the meantime, feel free to email us to update your shipping information, pause your boxes, or make other changes.