A Budding Business Sprouts and Grows

Innovation and business are exciting.  To me.  Basically, it’s the process of creating something from nothing.  It takes imagination, vision, hard work and persistence.  Just amazing when you think about it. I recently attended a Tea Tasting luncheon at the Botanical Garden where our friends at Piper & Leaf told their story and shared a…

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bloglovin

<a href=”http://www.bloglovin.com/blog/13667675/?claim=tuamqwnwpks”>Follow my blog with Bloglovin</a> Have you seen the bloglovin website?  I’m just starting to explore it but it looks interesting.  You can follow your favorite blogs and they all show up in one feed.  It looks convenient so I’m giving it a try.

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Tea at Sterling Health & Wellness

Continuing the thread of where to buy tea in Huntsville, AL… I popped into Sterling Health & Wellness and lo and behold they had a space devoted to tea.  They offer Matcha Source Tea and Piper & Leaf Tea along with some nice books, teapots and accessories. Important to know:  They also have dark chocolate to…

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Upton Tea Black Currant

Upton Tea has an enormous selection of tea.  They certainly understand tea grading and quality.  They have 8 pages of Teas from India (including 5 pages devoted just to Darjeelings) and 13 pages of Chinese tea to choose from.  If you’re looking for high grade teas with lots of letters this this looks like a great…

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Tea Time magazine

Tea Time magazine is an authoritative periodical on all things tea.  Each bi-monthly issue contains reviews of different varieties of a particular kind of tea.  For example, the last issue reviewed seven different kinds of Chai. My favorite part is generally the seasonal tea ideas where they provide menus, detailed recipes, tea pairings and even…

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Funky Fairy update

I popped in the new Funky Fairy shop at Lowe Mill.  They’re still on the second floor but they’ve moved into a larger spot across the hallway.  Best of all they now have a much larger stock of loose leaf teas to choose from.  It’ll take awhile to taste them all but I’m the person for the…

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Piper & Leaf Splendid Shindig

Check out the upcoming “Grand Opening” of the new Piper & Leaf shop on Saturday, August 2 at Lowe Mill.  More details at http://www.piperandleaf.com/splendid-shindig/. Here is my review of Piper & Leaf at https://civili-tea.com/piper-and-leaf/

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Piper & Leaf

The best place to buy tea in town is Piper & Leaf now located at Lowe Mill. I had to do a double-take when I discovered them last year at the Madison Farmer’s Market.  Original loose leaf tea blends created and sold right here in my hometown?  Amazing!  I stopped and talked with them and…

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SororiTea Sisters

There is a great blog (another great blog?) I’m happy to refer you to called “SororiTea Sisters, a sorority of sisters who love tea,” at http://sororiteasisters.com/.  I’ve been visiting their site off and on for some time.  They have tons and tons of posts reviewing teas from all over.  I particularly appreciate the list of on-line…

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Steeped Tea

Here’s something new.  I just learned this week that there is a Canadian company called Steeped Tea.  They sell their teas through Independent Consultants who will hold tea parties or visit with you one on one.  They’ve been on Dragon’s Den (Canada’s version of Shark Tank) and is one of Canada’s fastest growing companies. I…

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