As someone who lived in Japan for eight years and regretfully never attended a Japanese tea ceremony, I was happy to attend the tea ceremony hosted by Silk Road Tea at the festival today, in the very authentic tea room.
The tea house was founded and built by TAKATA volunteers and is use exclusively for Japanese Tea Ceremonies.
That’s where I met one of the founders of Silk Road Tea Daniela Cubelic. I wanted to watch the rest of the ceremony and we agreed to meet up later to talk tea.
A few hours later
I swung by the Silk Road booth and was greeted by a couple of gracious hosts offering me a choice of delicious organic teas. This is Silk Road’s fourth year as an exhibitor and “it keeps getting better every year”. Daniela noticed that the festival is growing and there are many more exhibitors which she likes because it means more local companies and producing natural organic products.
Daniella echoed what I had heard from other exhibitors, that attendees were more aware of the value and selection of organic products and were open t paying a price premium because they understand the value and benefits of what they are getting.
As a 17-year old company I assume that Silk Road Tea must be one of the original organic companies in Victoria. They sell only organic products and try to source as much locally as possible. They also have a “refill program” offering $0.50 off if you bring in your old tea tin.
What’s Daniella’s favourite tea? “Whichever Silk Road Tea I’m drinking at the time”. Which I guess means she loves them all…
Tags: Organic, Organic Islands Festival, tea
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