Tea, Mud and Hope

Mar 23 2023 21 ep. 52 mins 37

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New podcast following the adventures and learnings of the experimental teagarden Windy Hollow in Scotland. Learn about tea growing, tea making and growing tea in the face of climate change.

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Chatting with dear dear Erica Moore :) Eteaket founder and supporter of well being

Mar 23 2023 61 mins

A really interesting discussion about female leadership in small business, about working in fine tea, about actively supporting wellbeing in all of us. Erica is a wonderful person working in tea and owner of Eteaket. Its wonderful and humble to know that people like Erica exist and that we have her as part of our tea world. I have huge respect for her work, promoting fine and quali

The inaugural Prague Tea Fest, lets chat with its wonderful creator Agha :)

Feb 21 2023 66 mins

A wonderful opportunity to chat with Agha, the creator of Prague Tea Fest which has been organised for the first time this year, this week in Prague 25th to 26th February 2023. We hear all about it, Agha's plans and excitement and hopes for this new and exciting tea event. We hear about tea people arriving from all over Europe, we chat a bit about tea travel and the European tea gr

The biochemistry of tea with the wonderful Professor Elisabetta Damiani

Nov 12 2022 55 mins

A most wonderful new episode with Professor Damiani on the fascinating topic of tea and biochemistry. Liz is Professor of biochemistry at the University of Politecnica delle Marche in Ancona, Italy and has more recently turned her focus and attention to studying the biochemistry of tea and the camellia sinensis plant. Liz is especially interested in the types of and amount of antio

Tea education for positive change, a chat with my wonderful tea friend Sooz :)

Jun 03 2021 73 mins

Another very special episode, I have the great pleasure to chat with my tea friend Sooz about her work as Award winning tea educator. I love that Sooz is so passionate about positive change, mental health and creating learning opportunities for people from marginalised groups in our societies. We hear about her work on scholarships for BIPOC practitioners and her views about tea ed

Chatting tea with the lovely Tim D'Offay :)

May 16 2021 62 mins

Oh what a pleasure it is to chat with Tim about his tea life and tea culture across the world. We have the pleasure to hear about the new book he is writing, his tea work at Postcardteas, the European Tea Growing movement, climate change and tea growing, tea processing, tisanes, tea ceramics and much more. I have so much respect for Tim and his team and their wonderful work on prov

The Tale of Tea with the wonderful George van Driem

Apr 17 2021 60 mins

Oh what another tea treat. In this episode I have the pleasure to talk with Prof George van Driem about his wonderful book The Tale of Tea. We chat about camellia sinensis the plant and where it originated, about excavations of 1000 year old tea leaves, pesticides, climate change, earl grey tea and much much more. His book has 900 pages of dense and layered tea knowledge and is a p

The talented Shiloh Gastello shows us how to slow down with tea :)

Apr 11 2021 59 mins

Welcome to another episode of Tea, Mud and Hope. Our conversation today is with the wonderful Shiloh Gastello, talented ceramic artist, tea enthusiast and educator. During his workshops, Shiloh invites us to go on a somatic awareness journey with tea and to consider our own wellbeing and self development. Shiloh has a wonderful way to show us to slow down and to feel a link to natu

The wonderful Lydia Gautier shares her thoughts on professional tea sourcing and gives us a beautiful insight into her work :)

Feb 02 2021 54 mins

Another real treat, in this episode I have the pleasure to chat with Lydia Gautier, well known tea book writer, professional in tea sourcing and passionate about fine tea. We chat about how she selects fine teas and about her travels to many tea areas across the world. We hear about her fascinating project in North Vietnam to help give teas produced in specific wild tea areas there

Volunteering in tea with the wonderful Mona Jhunjhnuwala :)

Jan 21 2021 68 mins

Today's chat with Mona takes us to dreaming about tea travel and volunteering on tea farms. Mona shares her tea volunteering experiences on a White Tea Farm in China with us and its wonderful to hear about the opportunities and learning possible through volunteering. Hopefully us tea geeks will be able to explore tea gardens across the world again in the not-so-distant future. Than

People, spaces and climate with the wonderful Tea Explorer Jeff Fuchs :)

Dec 08 2020 68 mins

Part 1 of a two parter on Climate change and biodiversity in tea growing and tea enjoyment. This first part is a real treat. I have the pleasure of chatting with Jeff Fuchs who we all know from his award winning tea documentary The Tea Explorer. We chat all things tea, luscious tea forests, tea people, tea spaces and traditional tea knowledge. We are all connected to each other, th