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Reconnecting you to Mother Earth
Gardenia - Flora's favorite flower
Reconnecting you to Mother Earth
Gardenia - Flora's favorite flower
We sell only the highest quality teas in our effort to reconnect you to Mother Earth.
Brave and resourceful, Flora came to the mainland, U.S. as a lone teenager determined to make a way for her mother and siblings to follow. Through hard work, determination, and sometimes sheer will, she was able to succeed in her goal of bringing her family over to join her in her new home, where they settled down and built a better life for themselves. Sweet, loving, supportive, and dedicated to the ideals of family and entrepreneurship, Flora also had a reputation for toughness and fearlessness. She valued tea for it's medicinal properties and health benefits.
Oriana was practically a carbon-copy of her grandmother, Flora. Sweet-natured, caring, empathic and always concerned about the spiritual, emotional, and even physical needs of others. She was often seen ministering to patients, nurses, doctors, administrative personnel, and even the chaplains at various hospitals and nursing homes. She was fun-loving as well, and used to regale her family and friends with tales of her adventures. She was also a bonafide diva with a discerning taste in food, fashion, and friends.
Black tea is a type of tea that is more oxidized than green, oolong, and white teas. All four types are made from the leaves of the shrub Camellia sinensis.
Black tea is generally stronger in flavor than the less oxidized teas. Two principal varieties of the species are used – the small-leaved Chinese variety plant (C. sinensis subsp. sinensis), used for most other types of teas, and the large-leaved Assamese plant (C. sinensis subsp. assamica), which was traditionally mainly used for black tea, although in recent years some green and white have been produced
Green tea is made solely from the leaves of Camellia sinensis that have undergone minimal oxidation during processing.
Green tea originates in China and has become associated with many cultures throughout Asia. It has recently become more widespread in the West, where black tea is traditionally consumed. Many varieties of green tea have been created in countries where they are grown. These varieties can differ substantially due to variable growing conditions, horticulture, production processing, and harvesting time.
Herbal tea, tisane or ptisan, is an herbal or plant infusion, and not usually made from the leaves of the tea bush Camellia sinensis.
Like brews made of the tea bush, such infusions are prepared by combining hot water and fruits, leaves, roots or grains. The resulting drink can be served hot or cold. Herbal tea has been used for nearly as long as written history extends.
African Rooibos, or Aspalathus linearis, tea is grown only in a small area, 100- kilometers, in South Africa. Rooibos has a somewhat “earthy” tone which some people think tastes similar to black tea. Prized for its attractive red infusion color, Rooibos is a caffeine-free alternative to black and green tea that is traditionally harvested by the Khoisan nomadic ethnicities of South Africa. Rooibos is rich in minerals like iron.
Pu-erh tea, also known as Pu-er tea, is a variety of post-fermented teas produced in Yunnan Province, China.
Post-fermentation is a tea production style in which the tea leaves undergo a microbial fermentation process after they are dried and rolled. This is a Chinese specialty and is sometimes referred to as dark, or black tea (this type of tea is completely different from what in West is known as "black tea", which in China is called "red tea").
With so many potential health benefits, there’s never been a better time to put the kettle on. But which type of tea is for you? Let’s find out:
Benefits of green tea - Green tea has been found to boost the performance of the liver, and prevent arthritis by strengthening bones.
Benefits of black tea - While green tea often grabs the health headlines, black tea also possesses many of the health benefits mentioned above. Offering a strong source of antioxidants, it is great for preventing viruses in the mouth and gums and has also been known to widen impaired arteries by as much as 50 per cent, preventing blood clots.
Rooibos “red bush” is a member of the legume family of plants growing in South Africa’s fynbos.
The plant is used to make an herbal tea called rooibos tea, bush tea (Southern Africa), redbush tea (UK), South African red tea, or red tea.
An Amazon Best Book of February 2021: By turns extraordinary and ordinary, inspiring and devastating, the lives of Alberta King, Louise Little, and Berdis Baldwin are worthy of attention, and so too is their biographer, Anna Malaika Tubbs. As I learned about these women—the discrimination they endured as young Black girls, what they overcame, what their mothers and their grandmothers overcame, how they raised their boys and witnessed their deaths—my eyes filled with tears at their resolute strength and how their lives, like those of so many other Black mothers, have been ignored.—Al Woodworth, Amazon Book Review
"An engrossing triple biography of Alberta King, mother of Martin Luther King Jr.; Louise Little, mother of Malcom X; and Berdis Baldwin, mother of James Baldwin... Tubbs skillfully draws parallels between each woman’s story, and vividly captures the early years of the civil rights movement. This immersive history gives credit where it’s long overdue."―Publishers Weekly
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