REGENERATIVE ORGANIC BUG-BITTEN OOLONG Origin: Mingjian, Taiwan Net Weight: 50g | 1.8oz Servings: 20 cups | re-steep for up to 60-80 cups Our Notes: Forest Calm is a unique introduction to oolong. Oolong is a tea between green and black, made of tea leaves that have been semi-oxidized (i.e., exposed to air to dry and darken). It’s a favorite fact of ours that all true tea (i.e., not herbs like mint, lavender, etc.) comes from the same plant, Camellia sinensis. This is true whether you have white, yellow, green, oolong, red, black, or pu-erh tea. The difference comes from how the leaves are cared for and processed, the specific cultivar used, and the local environment. Forest Calm is a unique example of working symbiotically with Nature to make delicious tea. Oxidation starts before the leaves are even harvested as bugs called katydids are allowed to eat at the tea leaves, as opposed to non-organic tea farms that use pesticides to get rid of the bugs. Allowing the bugs to bite the tea brings forth a honey fragrance that gives us the type of calm we get from sitting against a wise old tree, witnessing the forest unfurl around us, and celebrating the interconnectedness of every creature.
