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Tea Blog

Tea or Cactus?: Tea for the Apocalypse

A season without water can be detrimental to tea plants.  In fact, very few plants can survive without quenching their thirst on a regular basis.  At the Maya Tea Company, we understand this very well—our headquarters are planted smack-dab in the middle of the Sonoran desert, where only the strongest of flora survive.  Our desert shrubs are some of the most hardcore plants in the world, growing year-round desp Read

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The International Marketplace: DAVIDsTEA and Maya Tea

The advance of the internet has changed global economy forever, in ways that we never could have predicted.  Consumers can shop virtually anywhere in the world without ever changing out of their pajamas or leaving the comfort of their favorite chair.  We are all linked in a single marketplace online.  But the market is linking outside of cyberspace as well.  Just last month DAVIDsTEA, a Canadian retail tea stor Read

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Good News for People Who Love Fish

I love fish.  All kinds of fish, really, but particularly sushi.  As with many people, the concept of raw meat made me a bit queasy at first, but my skepticism dissolved with my first slice of Albacore tuna, complimented with a sliver of pickled ginger and a dot of spicy sriracha sauce.  It was delicious.
To me, sushi is more than a meal.  It is an experience.  It is not

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Oooh, Panda Poo.

This morning, via the company Facebook page, I learned about a controversial new endeavor in the tea world: tea grown in panda poop.  The notion elicited disgust from some of our customers, but I want to examine it further.  Should we fear feces?
Poop is gross.  Anyone who has ever changed a diaper knows this.  Even the fecal matter or horses or cows (which consume strictly hays and grasses and

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Halloween and Kombucha Tea

Last weekend I threw a Halloween party.  Halloween is my favorite holiday of the year—it is the one holiday that you don’t have to stress out about.  You do not have to buy presents for anyone, there is no large meal to prepare for.  Instead, you get to dress up in costume and carve pumpkins, and everyone still manages to get together and smile.  There is something truly magic about

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