🍵 Her Volition Tea specializes in sustainable single-origin, loose leaf Chinese teas—no blends, no additives, no toxic supply chain. | MikeSula
Annie Xiang hosts a tea ceremony for Volition Tea at the Moonwalker Cafe on March 27, 2022. Xiang's goal with her tea company is to inform consumers about the lifecycle of tea and encourage people to think of the humans and farmers behind the production of tea.Annie Xiang’s son answered her morning coffee with violence.
“I was looking for tea companies that matched the quality that I am used to growing up,” Xiang says of her journey to starting Volition Tea.Xiang lost access to yak butter tea and her mother’s stash of the good stuff when she attended boarding school in upstate New York, years during which youthful energy precluded the need for caffeine. “Actually most Chinese don’t know that tea has caffeine,” she jokes. “They drink tea at all hours and give it to their children.
The handful of promising tea companies she did find were suspect as well, run by white guys who continued to market teas couched with the trappings of western colonialism or worse, employed industrial-scale methods. “A common practice the tea industry does is to blend multiple years of harvest together in order to push through inventory.”
“It takes ten years to really have a sustainable tea garden,” says Xiang. “They have to go in day after day, month after month, year after year to make sure that they are truly respecting their land and the people that live nearby. That’s while looking at their peers having a higher yield because they use chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and to say, ‘That’s not who I am. I am willing to accept a lower yield if that means my tea is truly sustainable for tea drinkers and for villagers.
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