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Soil: The Foundation of a Tea Plantation

The Importance of Soil Soil is an incredibly complex, and often overlooked component of an eco or agricultural system. Containing air, water, organic matter, and mineral matter, soil covers the top several meters of the earth’s surface above the bedrock. Soil is the basis for all eco-systems as it provides the necessary nutrients and structure to allow vascular plants, such as tea plants, to grow. Essentially every component needed to make a plant grow, except...

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Tea Leaves - The Camellia sinensis plant

Perhaps you’re a long-time tea lover and aficionado, or perhaps, like me, you’ve just been introduced to the world of Darjeeling tea. Regardless it never hurts to brush up on some basic tea knowledge, and over the coming months the blog portion of teacampaign.ca will explore the factors that make Darjeeling distinctive from any other tea in the world, from the soil and climate to the harvesting and brewing method. Maybe tea brings you comfort...

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Antioxidants in green tea - helpful or not?

Green tea, thanks to its relatively high amount of antioxidants (which, depending from origin and processing, has a wide span) is highly prized as protection against numerous diseases. But is it true? Is green tea kind of a wonder-remedy? Sceptical as I am, especially when I see marketers pick up scientific research-results, I sat down and went through a whole bunch of those (not easy to read and understand!) researches/studies. I was not surprised to...

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About green tea, antioxidants and the Linus Pauling Institute

A while ago, I sent a request to the Linus Pauling Institute (Oregon State University). I asked if a staff-member would like to review a blog-post about green tea and antioxidants that I wrote in March 2014. In the post I quoted several times articles published by the institute, which is a great ressource when it comes to questions about micronutrients. Here is the first answer that I received: Dear Dr. Langenbahn,...We are early in...

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Ottawa: our tea now at Cedars & Co. Food Market

Although it is well known that we don´t sell our tea to retailers, each rule has its exceptions. One of these exceptions is Cedars & Co. Food Market in Ottawa, 1255 Bank St. The reason is a very simple one: I love this Food Market. It´s family owned, the food is always fresh and there is always a helpful person around who guides me to the hidden sundried tomatoes or to a certain avocado oil....

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November 1st: time for a DEEP BLUE TEA

November 1st: a depressing, "bluesy" day. It´s gray, it´s rainy, it´s cold. A melancholic day. It´s time for a tea. Time for a November 1st-tea:

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Is Darjeeling tea from Darjeeling?

Sounds odd? Darjeeling tea is from Darjeeling! From where else? Since 2011 Darjeeling tea is registered in the European Union as PGI (Protected Geographical Indication). This means: a tea that´s labelled as Darjeeling tea has to be from a clearly defined highland area of the District of Darjeeling in the State of West Bengal, India, where all this fantastic tea is growing. This has been over a long period of time in many cases unforunately...

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