Get ready for cold & flu season with a nice, hot cup of our "Cold Comfort" tea!
Our Founders
Our Founders
We sell only the highest quality teas in our effort to reconnect you to Mother Earth.
Flora - Our Founder
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 - Our Co-Founder
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.
Kinds of Teas we sell
Black Tea
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
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
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.
Pu-erh Tea
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").
Drink to your health!
Simply put, tea is just plain good for you!
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.
Hi! It's time to prepare for...
Cold & Flu Season!
Summer's over, which means that cold and flu season are fast approaching! Stock up on Flora's Cold Comfort tea! This comforting combination of USDA Certified Organic herbs helps to ward off and ease the symptoms of colds and the flu.
New to Flora's Tea Company!
African Rooibos Teas
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.
Escritos (Spanish Edition)
Our November Book-of-the-Month
Esta obra ilustrada consta de una seleccion de la produccion periodistca de Albizu Campos a lo largo de los años. Para su mejor estudio de investigacion el libro incluye un indice tematico, geografico y onomastico. Muchos de los interrogantes que se planteo Albizu estan aun vigentes en el Puerto Rico del siglo veintiuno.
(English translation) This illustrated work consists of a selection of Albizu Campos' journalistic production throughout the years. For your best research study the book includes a thematic, geographic and onomastic index. Many of the questions that Albizu posed are still valid in twenty-first century Puerto Rico.
Pedro Albizu Campos
Pedro Albizu Campos (September 12, 1891 – April 21, 1965) was a Puerto Rican attorney and politician, and the leading figure in the Puerto Rican independence movement. Gifted in languages, he spoke six. He graduated from Harvard Law School with the highest grade point average in his law class, an achievement that earned him the right to give the valedictorian speech at his graduation ceremony. However, animus towards his mixed racial heritage led to his professors delaying two of his final exams in order to keep Albizu Campos from graduating on time. During his time at Harvard University he became involved in the Irish struggle for independence.
Albizu Campos was the president and spokesperson of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party from 1930 until his death in 1965. Because of his oratorical skill, he was hailed as El Maestro (The Teacher). He was imprisoned for twenty-six years for attempting to overthrow the United States government in Puerto Rico.
In 1950, he planned and called for armed uprisings in several cities in Puerto Rico. Afterward he was convicted and imprisoned again, where he was repeatedly beaten and tortured. He died in 1965 shortly after his pardon and release from federal prison, some time after suffering a stroke. There is controversy over his medical treatment in prison.
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Flora's Tea
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