Today I published the first full post of a new tea blog. The blog is called Teacology, communicating how I like to talk about tea together with ecology, and take an ecological approach to my thinking and writing:The first full post is titled Locally G…
4Dec12
Teacology: A New Tea Blog
Recently, Brett of Black Dragon Tea Bar shared a post, titled Organic Tea in Mucha, sharing details of his visit in January of 2010 to a region, Mucha(??), in northern Taiwan. If you scroll down through the photos, you will see something that I fo…
One of the things that I have become fascinated in in recent years is weather and climate. This interest is evident in the level of detail about weather which the articles go into on RateTea’s pages on the various tea-producing regions. One of the ke…
This post starts out talking about a bird, but if you are patient, it does relate to tea. Recently, this Friday, June 29th, to be specific, I was in Cobbs Creek Park, on the western border of the city of Philadelphia, near the Environmental Education …
This post is about systems thinking, which is related to thinking holistically. Wikipedia has an extensive article about systems thinking; it’s a useful article, but is a bit rough around the edges. Here I want to explain, in the context of the world…
As the Christmas season approaches here in the U.S., evergreen plants like spruce (for Christmas trees) and holly become culturally important. What does it mean to be evergreen?The tea plant is an evergreen plant, meaning that it is green year-round. …
I live in a climate relatively far from where the tea plant is commercially grown, in a region where it can only be grown as a peculiar, delicate garden specimen, in highly sheltered areas. I’ve heard that there are a few specimens of tea plants growi…
24Nov11
More Thanksgivings For Tea
Last year, I published a post around Thanksgiving time, Thankful about Tea. I am still very thankful for the things mentioned in that post, and I would recommend reading it if you missed it. This post is in the same spirit. I am not just thankful fo…
One way of looking at tea is that it just leaves and water. Here is a photo I took in Philadelphia, which shows leaves and water:There’s really not much here that looks like tea. Occasionally, fallen autumn leaves will “infuse” in streams or standing…
I recently read a post on Tea Musings, titled Green Chaos, which references a term used by John Fowles in his essay The Tree. In case you don’t read or know of this blog, it’s a collection of original poetry and, as the name suggests, musings. The po…
