How to Make Your Own Tea Blends: The Pyramid Method

Do you have an abundance of herbs in your garden? Or maybe you’re tired of that bottom-of-the-barrel tea dust in the bleached tea bags that taste like medicine. 

 

Well, have I got some good news for you! Did you know that you can blend your own herbs at home — even using...

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How to Make Ginger Tea from Ginger Root: Step-by-Step Guide w/Pictures

 

Ginger is a popular ingredient in many tea blends from Golden milk to traditional marsala chai blends. Ginger also has a host of wonderful health benefits and while ginger is great in a homemade natural water flavoring, making tea from fresh ginger has even more health...

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Benefits of Drinking Dandelion Tea + Drink Recipes!

 

Coffee is very much a part of American culture, especially on the West Coast. Having been a coffee drinker myself I can attest to the coffee smell wafting through the air making my brain smile. It is almost like someone flipped on a switch. For many Americans though a day without coffee...

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Could Tea Help You Lose Weight? Top Herbs for Weight Loss

Tea is the most popular beverage in the world, after water of course. I'm not just saying that as a tea company owner or tea fanatic but it's statistically true. 

Losing weight can be one of the many benefits of drinking tea in your daily diet. When paired with a healthy diet...

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Sea Moss Tea

 

Carrageenan is a food additive that you will find on many processed and shelf-stable foods. The debate is intense on whether we should be consuming carrageenan or not. The discussion comes from several angles, including that carrageenan is an extractive of sea moss. Sea moss has many...

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How to make Mushroom Tea

 

Before you start rolling your eyes and scrolling along because you think this post is about a psychedelic experience or magic mushroom tea, let me assure you that it is not. This shroom tea post is about some fabulous mushrooms with excellent health benefits without getting you high and...

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Best Tea for A Cold

 

As much we many of us would like to admit that the events of 2020 didn’t change our normal, something as simple as a cold and flu can have quite different effects on social relationships than it use to. A home remedy for the cold and flu are now even more important than they were...

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Calendula Officinalis & Calendula Tea Benefits

 

Hot summers bring bright yellows. While calendula Officinalis thrives throughout most of the year here in NW Oregon, they come to their full harvest in the fall. Also known as Pot Marigold, these calendula flowers have so many great uses, from externally on the skin to internally for the...

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Does Chai Tea Have Caffeine?

 

 

A typical cup of traditional Indian chai lattes is different all over India as well as all over the United States. It’s similar to grandma’s potato salad, or stew, everyone has their way of making it a little bit different but every way is a yummy family tradition. ...

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Rosehip Tea Benefits and Best Rosehip Tea

 

 

Did you know that rose hips, depending on the plant variety, have the highest concentration of vitamin c over any other fruit or vegetable? These studies show that not only is vitamin c one of the health benefits of rose hips but vitamin c is the powerhouse for all of your body's...

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10 Herbs to Grow for Tea

Planting an herbal tea garden is a fantastic way to add health and joy to your home. There are ten herbs that I recommend for any tea enthusiast, and the following herbs are easy to grow with countless uses and flavor combinations.

Don’t forget your herb harvesting tools! We have our top...

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