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Tim just came back from visiting the Subarna Small Tea Farmers Group who grew this year's Spring Darjeeling. Click HERE to find out more.

We are English, Japanese and Chinese.  Tea travelling since 1993, our extensive travels inspired our name Postcard Teas and made it possible for us to become the first company in the world to put provenance on every pack of tea. Five years on and while every tea company now talks about provenance very few have followed our lead by putting clear provenance on every tea they sell. In light of various food scandals we believe every company should be legally obliged to detail every tea’s provenance and celebrate the tea’s maker(s) by naming them as proper provenance safeguards both consumers and producers and is the beginning of true tea connoisseurship and knowledge. There is little one can learn from a tea with no details of the maker's name and location.

Over the last few years aware of the social, ecological, and cultural damage caused by large scale tea monocultures, we have been moving towards a different scale of production we call Small Tea. Small Tea is tea from farms of only a few acres that produce tea often in polycultures with few or no permanent hired workers. Family owned and staffed farms of about 2 acres (the size of London’s Trafalgar Square) not only produce over half the tea in Asia but also all the authentic examples of the famous teas of China, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Korea. As well as greater variety and quality, Small Tea offers greater equality as a larger percentage of your money goes to the people who make the tea compared to teas from estates or gardens where worker wages are notoriously low even on fair trade or organic certified gardens.