Reviews
How a tea shop stocks its shelf for routine drinkers and browsers
What a shop needs to stock for daily tea drinkers: house teas that never run out, printed brewing parameters, 100 g and 250 g sizes, and reorder points.
Desk
Growers Desk
Farms and producers, including the American ones.
Industry
Why American tea brands work better as a special than a fixed list
What US-grown tea has: domestic origin is something a customer cannot taste, and supply rarely lasts a year. How to run US-grown tea as a special rather than a list.
Reviews
Tea storage in humid American climates: why sealed beats open, and how to test dry leaf
Humidity is the storage problem in most US tea growing regions, why sealed beats open, which category is risky, and how to tell if leaf has taken up moisture.
Features
American-grown tea compared: Hawaii, South Carolina and the Pacific Northwest
American grown tea spans Hawaii, South Carolina and the Pacific Northwest, where hardiness zones, cultivars and harvest timing set cost and flavour.
Features
Honolulu Tea Farms: Why There Are None, and Where Leaf Grows
Honolulu tea farms: why the city has no commercial tea estate, where Hawaii-grown leaf is actually farmed and processed, and how to buy it locally.
Industry
One small garden, one dial: how American tea brands actually get made
American tea makers at garden scale: a small domestic garden does the whole chain itself, what that scale can produce, and how withering shapes a white tea.
Industry
Pacific Northwest tea blenders: sourcing and release models
Pacific Northwest tea blenders in Portland and Seattle differ on leaf sourcing, batch size ranges and release models, with lot dating that follows each model.
Reviews
American-Grown Tea Sampler Boxes Worth Ordering Right Now
Five real American-grown tea sampler boxes from Table Rock, Minto Island, Mauna Kea, Charleston and Great Mississippi, with prices and shipping notes.