Anderson Green Events loves our tea!

We just read this rave review by Lisa from Anderson Green Events.  We are having a great time at the Stationary Show here in New York and loved meeting Lisa.  Thanks to this show, our teas will soon be available in many more shops across the country from New York to California in coming weeks-- please check our website for our additional stores where you can find our teas!

..."I was raised by parents of English decent, which means that I like Tea. Ok, I love Tea, there I said it. I drink tea every morning and afternoon, so I like to think that on some level, I am a tea-authority, so I was thrilled to come across Partners Tea Co at the National Stationery Show yesterday.

Partners Tea Co. is a fair trade, organic, tea company owned and operated by women. They have six blends of tea leaves for sale and believe me I tell you, these tea's are top notch. They have a lovely and inviting fragrance and the loveliest of tastes. I sampled the Love Blend which really was one of the best tea's I've ever had. No joke. The packaging is beautiful, the tea sachets were so simple yet sweet and the best part: they have recipes to make cocktails out of their blends. Genius for a bridal shower, you can make Love-tini's out of the Love blend! They have recipes for many tea-tini's and tea-toddy's that sound really yummy.

These tea's also make amazing gifts or favors for your showers or wedding or if you've got a friend who loves tea {maybe a part of a bridesmaid gift?}.

And I am really impressed that the company is giving back 1% to Kiva and the Central Asia Institute.

Check them out and order some tea, I promise its so good, you may not go back to coffee! "

Wanderlust UK Top Guide- Bruno Dawson, Sri Lanka

My friend, Bruno, is up for Wanderlust UK's best guide in the world.

I met Bruno in 2005 when he was one of the guides on an Oxfam Australia bicycle trip around Sri Lanka led by Intrepid Travel.

Bruno is an excellent guide and goes above and beyond to help visitors to Sri Lanka experience the beauty and mystique of his homeland and to make a difference to the people there.  Not only is he kind and fun, energetic and knowledgeable, he also has a real commitment to share his good fortune with his local community.

When we met, Bruno told me about his work to provide sewing machines for the tea village's women to help diversity their income and also to build a school to give opportunities to the kids from his village and beyond. 

Since then, I have been back to visit Sri Lanka a number of times and Bruno has taken me to visit the tea village where he grew up and a number of other tea villages so that I could better understand the impact that my tea company is having on the people of Sri Lanka. 

I hope Top Guide helps him to achieve his goal of making life better for those in Sri Lanka's tea growing communities and creating more peace in this beautiful, ancient country.

You an vote for him today at topguide@wanderlust.co.uk- just put 'Bruno Dawson' in the subject line.

Derby Day- An email from a fan!

We just received this email from a friend enjoying our Popeye tea for Derby Day...Thanks Lois!
"...It really struck me this morning while enjoying my 2nd bag of Partners Popeye (4th cup) of how appropriate Partners Popeye is with its spearmint overtones for a base mix for a Mint Julep.   I sometimes confuse my mint varieties and know that peppermint is a cardinal sin for Mint Juleps but hope that spearmint botanicals are used!

 

Needless to say, I love Popeye and welcome using it as a base for dissolving some sugar later today and combining the tea/sugar syrup with some of Kentucky's finest Bourbon in a coin silver julep cup containing some finely crushed ice.  I consider retrieving a sprig of spearmint from Debbie's garden to be too much work so your Partners Popeye will have to carry the day for me.

 

Love and affection from all of our  family to yours!"

Goodnight Kiss wins sofi silver- Going for gold in June!

We are pleased to announce their selection as a Silver
Finalist in the 38th Annual sofi™ awards in the category of hot beverage. The awards, held by the
National Association for the Specialty Food Trade (NASFT), are considered the industry’s highest
honor. Silver Finalists are evaluated on a range of attributes, including taste, quality, ingredients,
innovation and packaging.
Our Goodnight Kiss Fair Trade organic tea blend was one of 125 Silver Finalists
selected by a national panel of specialty food experts from 1,570 contenders across 31 Awards categories.
Gold Winners will be selected from the Silver Finalist nominees at the NASFT’s Summer Fancy Food
Show in New York held June 27-29, 2010. Executive chef Dan Barber of Blue Hill Restaurant, a leader
in the artisanal food movement, will host the awards, in what is considered the specialty food industry’s
biggest night of the year. 

PARTNERS TEA CO.’s Goodnight Kiss is comprised of the warm and soothing flavors of cacao, mint and
Vanilla Rooibos.

I will be in attendance, along with 3 of my best girlfriends and biggest supporters-- stop by our booth at the show for a taste of our teas and to wish us luck!

This recognition is a triumph for our small, woman-owned and financed company
and for other Fair Trade products.  Our pure teas are hand-picked on small
farms from Sri Lanka to South Africa and with our Fair Trade practices we bring higher quality hand-
blended teas to market that are devoted to changing the quality of life for both those who drink them
and those who harvest them.

sofi™ award nominations are open to members of the NASFT, a not-for-profit business trade
association with nearly 3,000 members throughout the world. For more information on the NASFT
and its Fancy Food Shows, go to www.specialtyfood.com

New CFO, New Puppy, New Apron!

We are so happy and thankful that Karla Diehl has joined Partners Tea Company as our new Chief of Operations and Finance!   Here is a picture of Karla with her new puppy, Cayenne,  sporting our new Partners Tea Company aprons!

Don't let the apron fool you-- this lady is a management maven.  As the chairwoman of Edison Automation, Inc., she profitably managed the $16 million Inc 500 award winning company through 316% growth!  Look out, Lipton!   With a BS in International Trade and Finance and an MBA from Vanderbilt's Owen School of Management, she is especially good at developing operational systems and infrastructure and working with a diverse range of people.  That is thanks to her endless optimism and positive spirit!
She's still having a bit of culture shock though, having moved from the mostly male automation industry to...tea.  Imagine trading your hardhat in for a pretty green apron and your industrial warehouse for a sunny porch!   We think it s a good fit and are happy to have a new mascot in Cayenne as well!

Spring forward with slimming, refreshing Popeye!

As Spring approaches, our bodies naturally want to cleanse and shed a layer of insulating winter weight.  Partners Tea Company's Popeye blend is the perfect tea for this season.  It is slimming and energizing and makes a great get well or energizing tea.
When I created it, I was going for something like a healthy,  herbal Red Bull.  It tastes great.   Here is what is in it--
Yerba Mate- a South American herb that is known to be slimming, energizing and god for mental focus.
Green tea- full of polyphenols and anti-oxidants, known to be slimming also and anti-viral, anti-cancerous and .  Great for digestion and skin.
Ginger- Good for digestion, warming.
Lemongrass- Cleansing for the liver, kidney and digestive tract.  A diuretic.
Peppermint-Diuretic, good for IBS and other stomach issues.
Goji berries Good for longevity, vision, fertility, skin conditions and numerous other benefits.

Iced Popeye is healthy and delicious!  Making it is easy, just steep one of or tea sachets in hot water, allow to cool, chill in the fridge.  Serve with ice, mint, lime and put it in your glass with ice.  You can add agave or turbinado sugar. Iced Popeye also makes a great Mojito if you add Rum and fresh mint.

Women on the Edge of Evolution

I just received this exciting opportunity from Kim Ribbins at BIONEERS and wanted to share it...
Nina Simons is currently participating in the United Nations Conference on the Status of Women, Beijing + 15 and she wanted me to let you know that she'll be talking about this experience as well as covering key ideas about Women's Leadership and relating some of nature's solutions for our modern world challenges in an intimate and free-ranging conversation as part of the groundbreaking FREE teleseries "Women on the Edge of Evolution."

The call will be this Wednesday, tomorrow, March 3rd at 5:30 p.m. PST with a half hour Q & A session from 6:30 p.m. PST.

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