COFFEES & TEAS

We proudly support a number of coffee companies that strive for high quality taste and ethical buying principles. Fairly Traded, shade grown and organic are our criteria for a great cup of coffee. All Coffee - 13.50 per pound.

Earth Club Factory Roasting Company

LightRoast. This coffee is roasted to a light sweet dark brown allowing the oils hise just below the top. Roasted to celebrate the special regional flavor.

Medium Roast. Latin American certified fair trade coffee. Roasted dark but not bitter. Rick taste with a pleasant snap.

Dark Roast. Full bodied,rich, sweet syrupy with earthy flavors.

Espresso Dark Roast. Containing traditional Central American beans. The outcome is truly exotic cup with zesty and rich full-bodied flavor.

TEAS

The History of Tea

Ancient Chinese legend claims that tea was discovered by Emperor Shen Nung in 2737 BC when a few windswept leaves fell into a pot of water he was boiling under a wild tea tree. He sampled the aromatic mixture and became the first to enjoy the pleasure of a hot cup of tea.

While scholars dispute the accuracy of this legend, there is general agreement that the popularity of tea drinking and production began in China around five thousand years ago and spread across Asia.

Europe was introduced to tea in the 16th century when Dutch and Portuguese trading ships regularly arrived loaded with spices, silks, and tea from China, Japan and Java.

More people drink tea every day than any other beverage in the world. It is an essential drink throughout most of Asia, Russia, the Middle East, North Africa, and Great Britain. Today, tea is grown throughout the world, including many countries in Africa and South America, but the centers of production are still found in the geographical crescent that extends from Japan, China, Taiwan and Vietnam in East Asia to Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India in South Asia to Turkey, Iran and Russia in Central Asia.

In China, more than 8,000 types of tea are grown, including many varieties of black tea produced primarily for export. The most popular drinking teas are green which are traditionally brewed by infusing leaves in a covered cup called a guywan. There are tremendous regional variations in brewing rituals, but it is standard throughout China to offer tea to visitors and to drink it before and after a meal to refresh the palate and assist in digestion. Tea is an essential element of Chinese herbal medicine, and different varieties are used to treat many common ailments.

Tea seeds were brought to Japan from China in the early 9th Century by a Buddhist monk who planted them at his monastery. He served his homegrown tea to the Emperor, who enjoyed it so much he ordered the establishment of tea cultivation throughout Japan. There are elaborate rituals and customs surrounding tea preparation and consumption, and the complex and austere Japanese Tea Ceremony is practically a religious ritual.

Much of the world's tea is produced in Sri Lanka and India. Voluminous plantations were developed by the British beginning in the 1800s to fulfill increasing demands. Tea is a favorite local drink as well, although its preparation is quite unique. Usually boiled with milk, sugar and spices like clove and cardamom, Indian tea, or chai, is spicy and sweet.

In the Middle East and North Africa, tea is drunk from glasses without milk, but with lots of sugar and often with sprigs of mint. In Iran tea is drunk in public tea houses where men listen to music, play backgammon, or listen to live recitations of the classic epic poem Shahnameh.

In Russia, where tea has been popular since the seventeenth century, water is heated in elaborately decorated samovars, metal kettles that supposedly derive from a Mongolian firepot. A tea concentrate is brewed separately in a small pot then diluted with hot water from the samovar.

All teas are 4.95 per 100 grams

Herbal Tea Blends

Touched by Angels. Rosehips, hibiscus, juniper berries, elder berries, lovage, star anise, cloves, orange peel, and coriander.

Denman Meadows. Strawberry leaf, rosehips, spearmint, chamomile, cloves and allspice.

Jamaican Spice. Hibiscus, cinnamon bark, cloves, and orange peel.

Quiet Time. Peppermint, orange blossoms, chamomile, and allspice.

Home Time. Wintergreen, cinnamon bark, cloves, chamomile, orange blossoms, raspberry, peppermint, and star anise.

Licorice Spice. Licorice root, orange peel, cinnamon bark, allspice, and vanilla powder.

Mocha Mint. Chicory, carob, crystal malt, peppermint, cinnamon bark, allspice, and vanilla powder.

Mocha Spice. Chicory carob, crystal malt, cinnamon bark, allspice, vanilla powder.

Mu Tea. Sassafras bark, sarsaparilla root, orange peel, licorice root, cinnamon bark, burdock root, cloves, marshmallow root, coriander, allspice and vanilla powder.

Mulled Wine Tea. Orange peel, allspice, cinnamon bark and cloves.

Root Beer Tea. Sassafras bark, sassafras root, wintergreen, star anise, cinnamon bark, licorice root, fennel seeds, crystal malt and vanilla powder.

Healing Herbal Formula Teas

Arthritis and Rheum. Alfalfa leaf, devil’s claw, devil’s club bark, nettles, burdock root, white willow bark, and comfrey root.

Blood Cleansing. Red clover blossoms, chaparral, Echinacea, yellow dock, violet leaves and uva ursi.

Calcium. Horsetail, comfrey root, and oatstraw.

Cold and Fever. Elder flowers, peppermint leaf, yarrow flowers, and rose hip seedless.

De-tox. Catnip, chamomile, hops, lemongrass, peppermint, skullcap, yarrow, yellowdock.

Fasting. Alfalfa leaf, nettles, yerba mate, uva ursi, juniper berries, rosehip seedless.

Female Moon Tea. Raspberry leaf, black cohosh, blue cohush, vervain, blessed thistle, squawvine, motherwort.

Headache. Blessed thistle, wood betony, rosemary, thyme, gotu kola, chamomile, peppermint leaf, feverfew herb.

Kidney. Parsley flakes, juniper berries, uva ursi, marshmallow root, and meadowsweet.

Lower bowel(powder) Barberry bark, cascara sagrada, cayenne, ginger, golden seal root powder, raspberry and rhubarb root.

Laxative. Senna leaf, buckthorn bark, licorice root, peppermint leaf, yerba mate and fennel seed.

Liver. Barberry bark, yellow dock root, Oregon grape root and fennel seed.

Lung. Comfrey leaf, mullein leaf, coltsfoot, horehound, hyssop and elecampagne

Nerve. Hops, chamomile, skullcap, passionflowers, oatstraw, skullcap and vervain.

Relaxing. Peppermint, chamomile, skullcap, passionflower, wood betony, and catnip.

Stomach calming. Peppermint, papaya leaf, chamomile, fennel seeds and cinnamon bark.

Stop Smoking. Angelica, black cohosh, Echinacea root, calamus, catnip, peppermint, skullcap, and slippery elm bark.

Weight Loss. Chickweed, yerba mate, nettles, meadowsweet, juniper berries, cinnamon bark, orange peel and horsetail.

Green Tea. Hailed as a cancer preventative. Long used in Japan for herbal health.

Chai Tea. Cinnamon, cardamom, black pepper, Ceylon tea and a number of other fine fresh organic herbs.