We're in Yunnan!

Last year, we started an annual tradition to raise funds for a bigger tea center in Taiwan. It's not any old fundraiser--it's a custom pressing of organic puerh cakes especially for Light Meets Life. Last year, we pressed three cakes: an organic Wuliang Mountain Sheng Puerh, an organic Snow Chrysanthemum Shou Puerh (pictured above) and an organic Ailao Mountain Sheng Puerh.

This year, we're in Yunnan to press more tea cakes. We're having another batch of the Shou pressed, as well as a red tea cake and another Ailao. This time, we're traveling to Ailao to select the leaves ourselves. Ailao is a protected reserve in which ancient tea trees are responsibly harvested, and we feel honored to be able to visit and share in this incredible gift from Nature.

After we return to Taiwan, we'll post some photos and notes from our trip here on the blog, and write about the trip in more detail in the Global Tea Hut magazine. In the meantime, wish us luck!

Visiting Taiwan

One of the really amazing things about Global Tea Hut is how much it supports our tea center in Taiwan. At the tea center (which is called Tea Sage Hut), we work on a lot of different projects, such as mailing out Global Tea Hut each month, studying tea, serving tea for free to passersby and promoting organic tea. And one of our major activities here is hosting hundreds of tea lovers each year.

Right now, we're hosting two guests from Russia (one of whom helps run a sister center in Moscow and who is pictured here), a guest from Toronto who just recently fell in love with Global Tea Hut and Petr Novak, a Czech potter with great tea spirit who has supported what we do here for a long time through his craft.

Guests at Tea Sage Hut have the opportunity to participate in many tea sessions, to hand-roll their own tea, to brew side-handle pot tea, bowl tea and gong fu tea, to hear lectures on tea and related topics, to visit tea and tea ware shops and much, much more.

If you're interested in visiting us, check out the experiences of other visitors and contact us for more information. We hope to share tea with you here sometime!