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Quantity/Packing Size:
96 tea bags (96 grams)
Ingredients:
Anise Hyssop, Red Clover, Raspberry Leaves
Traditional Uses:
- Flu, cold and cough relief
- Muscle relaxant
- Hormone balance
- Digestive aid
Description:
Homestead Blend is a wonderful cold remedy which was used by the early settlers. Anise Hyssop's beautiful purple flower spires are signposts of wild elixir to the bee. This perennial herb was enjoyed by natives and early pioneers who used it green, as a culinary herb, and dried for a relaxing flavourful tea. Anise Hyssop is not Anise, but does have a mild licorice flavour, hence its name. It is wonderful mixed with black tea and wonderful iced. Let the luxuriant taste signal the comfort and security that comes from knowing you are home.
Our herbs are presently sustainably wildcrafted in Whitney and surrounding area. We only pick as much as a deer might graze, along moving rivers beside the border of Algonquin Park as well as long abandoned fields and forest clearings. Raspberry leaves and the roots are picked on farms that have been unused for 10 or more years, where industrial methods never were used, and where the original owner/farmer has given us permission, and we know the land's history. Crops which cannot be wildcrafted sustainably such as Red Clover, Anise Hyssop and Echinacea, are grown on certified organic farms.
A little background on the price of wildcrafted products. We choose to harvest each leaf by hand, sustainably, in the wilderness, often by canoe. We hire pickers so that we are sure it is done sustainably and often only during one or two hours in a day, if at all, when the plants are oily enough to be harvested. It is truly a gourmet product, that is competing with herbs that are sprayed, cut by tractor (we pick only the fresh oily flower tops and leaves) or so 'weak' they are flavoured by artificial oils. We hope you will understand that these teas in fact are the finest quality available. Algonquin Tea blends fully meet the demands of the most discerning ecology-minded and health conscious consumer. At the same time, these flavours satisfy the palate of everyone from the average tea drinker to the most gourmet connoisseur.
Drying:
Our herbs are picked at the optimum time and dried in a clean barn at low heat in dark drying rooms.
Packaging:
- Bleach free tea bags
- 100% recycled packaging with Double Aqua Coat.
- Liner bags are guaranteed to seal herbs fully for 2 years.
Answers to Common Questions:
- Yes, these herbs are safe for pregnant women.
- Yes, these teas are are mild enough to use everyday, the way one would a mint tea. However all plants have a physiological character.
- Yes, these are all indigenous Canadian plants.
- No, wildcrafting does not endanger wild plants when harvested sustainably by a professional who understands their cycles.
Certified organic and ethically wildcrafted in the Canadian wilderness.
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