Tea?

 

Tea?

Looking for something in a kitchen cupboard the other day, I came across a tea caddy, beautifully decorated with a painting of an elephant.

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I have no recollection of how I came by this, but discovered that it had held Earl Grey tea bags. It’s one of life’s little pleasures to use attractive things on a daily basis, so I may start using it for our tea leaves. It’s quite tall, so not the easiest container to work with, and it will require a long-handled spoon.

The Williamson Tea company has been growing and harvesting tea since 1869 on four individual farms in Kenya. The tea bushes are grown without herbicides or pesticides.

The Williamson Tea Foundation supports the local communities with education and healthcare and employment opportunities. It also supports smallholders, and has provided three and a half million tea bushes to them in the last decade.

It is committed to maintaining and protecting wildlife habitats and primaeval forest, and has created ‘monkey corridors’ to allow safe passage of wild animals.

The company has an online shop offering a variety of teas, a few biscuits, and a couple of iconic enamel cups. It is an interesting site, full of information.