We call this ‘Salama’ Green, since in Swahili, salama has several translations, including: health, peace, robustness, and, well. We think this is a fitting name for this vibrant, yet clean and smooth tasting green tea that is unlike any other green tea on the market! Grown in one of the world’s most clean terriors, these whole tea leaves will steep multiple infusions of vibrant green liquor.
This lovely green tea is hand picked by small scale farmers, delivering a distinguishing cup with notes of crisp asparagus, fresh cabbage and toasted oats.
Mount Kenya is the second highest peak in Africa, at 2,000m above sea level. Since the terrior of Kenya is not prone to insects, pesticides are unnecessary. Our Kenyan teas are verified pesticide-free.
beTeas is extremely proud to be partners with JusTea, direct importers from small scale farmers in Kenya. In contrast to the standard industry model, here farmers are actively involved in all aspects of creating and selling their product. This has a profound effect on resulting farmers wages, as well as the product in our cup: farmers earn approximately 2.5x more than in the traditional factory supply chain model. No longer forced to machine process quicker, cheaper bulk tea for tea bags, these farmers lovingly process a whole-leaf, hand-made product they are proud of and are invested in constant improvement of their craft (I was surprised to learn that under the traditional model, a majority of workers on conventional Kenyan farms, have never tasted the tea they labour to produce!).
Fair Trade Alliance, pesticide-free.