Where is Equal Exchange green tea grown?
This delicate green tea is a great choice to start your day. Often described as having an earthy and herbaceous flavor with a healthy kick in every sip. This blend includes tea grown by small-scale farmers of the Potong Tea Garden in India, an organic Fair Trade tea garden managed by the Tea Promoters of India (TPI). What are the best tea brands to drink? Loose leaf teas such as those by Gachi Tea, Pukka, Verdant Tea or In Pursuit of Tea. These healthy tea brands source their teas responsibly, have primarily organic offerings and are transparent on their ingredients which we find clean.
What is Equal Exchange tea?
Equal Exchange’s fairly traded, organic teas are different! We buy our delicious tea directly from democratically-organized groups of growers. When small-scale farmers gain access to the global market, they have more economic power, better lives, and healthier communities. Equal Exchange was founded in 1986 by Rink Dickinson, Jonathan Rosenthal, and Michael Rozyne. Before founding Equal Exchange, Dickinson, Rosenthal, and Rozyne were managers at a food cooperative in New England, and were actively involved in American food industry reform.Equal Exchange is a for-profit, Fairtrade, worker-owned cooperative headquartered in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Equal Exchange distributes organic, gourmet coffee, tea, sugar, bananas, avocados, cocoa, and chocolate bars produced by farmer cooperatives in Latin America, Africa, and Asia.In terms of purity, Equal Exchange adheres to organic standards (so no nasty chemicals on the crops) and while they don’t publish mold test results, their quality control is high and they’ve been in the business of clean, sustainable coffee since the 1980s.
Is Equal Exchange tea plastic free?
Tea bags are unbleached abaca with organic cotton strings and tags made from paper printed with vegetable-based ink. Bottles are glass. Their caps are aluminum. Individual bags are plastic. Tea bags are unbleached abaca with organic cotton strings and tags made from paper printed with vegetable-based ink. Tea envelopes are paper lined with plastic.