It took me a while to think throughly when it comes to market my teas. I don’t have much budgets to market my teas as a small business owner, but I have 200% confident on my teas and I’ve been told by many people how much they like my teas.
Therefore, I invite you Tea or Foodie Bloggers to try my teas. I believe that your honest opinions actually worth a lot more than all of these flashy advisements. If you want to support local small business and love to try a relaxing cup of Just4tea for free, please fill out your info and I will send you the teas.
David and I went to watch “All in This Tea” at Roxie in SF this Sunday. It’s a documentary by Les Blank and Gina Leibrecht about American tea importer David Lee Hoffman who traveled to tea plantations in China and imported organic tea from local farmers to US directly. I was not impressed honestly when I watched the trailer at the beginning because I did not think it is a big deal for an American to import teas to United State.
But Mr. Hoffman seems like a cool guy and he could smells the chemical treated teas out without using laboratory testing . Speaking of the old days, coloring the teas are fairly common tactic used among those dishonest tea farms, so my parents often teach customers to identify these chemical treated teas is by putting dry leaves into the cold water. If you see the color coming out from the cold water, this is a sure thing of chemical treated teas. Don’t drink it.
Anyway, I want to check out this movie and see how many tea lovers are out there in bay area. I want to blog about it later and pass around to my readers if I learn any valuable knowledge from this movie. It’s a beautiful made movie and it revealed the artisan tea making process from picking teas in misty early morning, withering, pan frying teas and etc.
The director did a phenomenal job capturing the simple life of local farmers and tea factory workers. We are living in such a rich materialistic society, but our spirit is much poorer than the those farmers in China. Considering their minimal and scarcely living condition, their innocent smile and unpretentious bluntly attitude make me wonder if we need so much luxury things in our life.
Although, I do not get to learn Mr. Hoffman’s magic skill of smelling chemical treated teas after watching movie, I am touched by his passion toward teas and his courage of trying to break through existing rigorous tea export system in China. He also raised a very good environmental concern that the excessive used chemical fertilizer could damage the environment and our health. We all need to learn how to love our earth and we should act ASAP. It’s a very sincere movie and I highly recommend tea lovers to watch it.
