My time has been  limited lately.  Ready-to-drink teas have been very important for my tea intake.  I have been drinking a lot of bagged teas over the past few months – mainly to avoid cleanup and over-steeping.  Having said that,  loose leaf tea will always be my favorite.  It’s just not always practical for people on the go.  I’ve been looking at Teas Etc’s site trying to determine if the “Tea Traveler” is going to be a good fit for me to get back into the groove with loose leaf teas.  I probably would have ordered it, but $8 shipping was more than I wanted to spend at the time.  Anyway, just enjoy tea.  If you can drink fresh, organic, loose leaf tea – do it.  If you enjoy tea in a bottle or in a tea sachet/bag, don’t stop.

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One of my favorite beverage magazines is Fresh Cup.

About Fresh Cup (from freshcup.com):

You can follow me @ twitter.com/organictea when I’m not blogging.

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Earlier in the month I was reading Fresh Cup Magazine when I found out about Samovar’s efforts to create videos to promote tea’s ability to unite. At last, the video series has started.

From the Press Release:

A new video series encouraging world peace through tea culture from the San Francisco-based Samovar Tea Lounge promotes cross-culture dialogue and tolerance while drawing attention to the cultivation of tea around the world.

• Visit Samovar and view the videos

Enjoy the videos. You can checkout the videos on iTunes. Excellent job Samovar!

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At the 2007 World Tea Expo, I stopped at the booth of Tea District. As I’m strolling along the showroom floor, the booth caught my eye. I read over some of their product information and grabbed a couple of samples that I blogged about last year. During my blogging of their teas, I discovered that Tea District is a locally owned manufacturer and importer of tea in St. Paul, MN. The one thing that stuck in my mind about this company was the fact that it was started by one woman’s passion to bring quality teas and tea related products to consumers. In an industry with a ton of competition, it requires a lot of guts to take the “bull by the horns” and start a new tea company. The Tea District offers a wide variety of tea products. They carry 12 blends of black, green, red, and herbal teas. Tea District’s teas are contained in bio-degradable round tea pods and packaged in a 100% recyclable tea canister. Note: with every purchase of Children’s Tribute Citrus Green Tea, five percent of the sales is donated to the Children’s Cancer Research Fund – www.ChildrensCancer.org.

At this year’s WTE, I stopped by and wanted to let them know that I admire their hard work. marTEA.com would like to wish Lindsey Valentini, President of Tea District, much success with her business. For a company that was started in 2005, you’re certainly off to an excellent start.

Visit Tea District

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Dr. Tea is giving excellent advice about tea as only Dr. Tea can in his new podcast.

• Visit teatips.tv

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Here’s a great blog from Beth: http://www.teasetc.com/blog/beth/. What she is getting to do is an absolute dream of mine. The way she describes the air as she entered the Tea Research Institute Fujian Academy of Agriculture Sciences – as a tea lover, I can only imagine the experience.

Great blog Beth! For those of you looking for great teas and tea products, Teas Etc is an excellent source.

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marTEA.com was started out of my interest for both technology and tea. During the creation of marTEA.com, I found a lot of inspiration from sites like digg.com. Digg is a social bookmarking website that has caught major attention around the world. Digg would not exist, at least not in its current popularity, without co-founder Kevin Rose and the faithful digg community. I’ve been listening to Kevin’s popular podcast called Diggnation for years. In fact, Kevin and co-host Alex Albrecht took a week off of their normal beer drinking to recover from a trip to Japan and drank Adagio tea for an episode in 2005. If you know the show, there’s a lot of beer drinking that tends to take its toll on the hosts. Anyway, that episode inspired me to combine the two things that interest me – technology and tea. I actually purchased the Digg themed Adagio tea samples in early 2006. As a tribute to Kevin and digg, I’ve included a “Digg This” link with every story I post. marTEA.com would like to continue its dedication to all things tea by allowing the digg community to promote tea related news and reviews. If you want to try some of the tea blends that Kevin and Alex have been drinking in their recent shows visit adagio.com/diggnation.

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