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Surf's Up
Nov 20th
howies store, 62 Queen’s Road, Bristol BS8 1RE
DJ Spotted Wearing TAS Tea-Shirt
Nov 15th
“short, sweet and a tad jazzy” – Rob Da Bank (radio1) www.myspace.com/amongstthepigeons – myspace
www.amongstthepigeons.info – website ‘music to brush your teeth to’ – the debut lp available now
Good News for Loose Leaf Tea Lovers
Nov 9th
Exotic new organic China teas could soon find their way onto our shelves.
A new agreement means small producers of high quality organic China tea will find it much easier to access the UK market with their products.
New green and black teas, as well as more unusual white, yellow, oolong and puer teas expertly produced by small-scale tea gardens across the major growing regions of China, may be in UK shops by summer 2010, following a mutual agreement between the two leading organic certifiers – the Soil Association in the UK and Organic Tea Research and Development Company in China [1].
Following a series of negotiations and detailed training, these two certifiers have agreed to recognise each other’s inspection regimes [2]. This will significantly reduce the cost of organic certification in China, as UK inspectors no longer need to inspect in China, nor vice versa. This opens the way for much smaller producers to extend to the UK market.
Soil Association Certification’s Managing Director David Peace said: “This is great news for tea lovers. We expect to see 15-20 new tea varieties arrive in the first couple of years, with perhaps many more to follow. These will probably be available from specialist tea shops, but we’re hoping that supermarkets will show an interest too.
The challenge for the Chinese tea producers now is to market their products here successfully. Most significantly this agreement means that large volumes of organic China tea will be certified to the Soil Association’s high standards, so consumers can be sure it has been grown without artificial fertilisers and avoiding pesticides.”
Thanks to Jack at the soil association for this info.
Halloween Tea
Oct 31st
If you are of a sensitive nature and are offended by strong language, please exercise your right to choose not to watch this.
For everyone else, enjoy.tea and toast from Matt Taylor on Vimeo.
New Tees
Oct 30th
More Tea Vicar?
Oct 28th
L.M.House 2009
You can upload your TEA related images, photos and artwork to the Tea Appreciation Society Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/TeaAppreciationSociety
Pop the kettle on, have a brew and get painting, drawing, sticking, upload a photo from your mobile… Got anything better to do?
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy…
Surf Tea
Oct 27th
See the full interview here http://www.driftsurfing.eu/index.php/archives/2858
The foothills of Mt. Kenya
Oct 22nd
Spotted on the UK Tea Council website
“One of the many tea shacks in the foothills of Mt. Kenya. The ladies were very happy to see us and like the T-shirt alot. The ladies here are checking the tea they have just picked before it is picked up by the tea lorry to be taking to the factory in Meru. ” — Rachael C Griffin, Kenya Good work Rachael
Tea Appreciation Society tees available here: http://shop.teaappreciationsociety.org/
