Rare Tea Company Wild Harvest Rooibos Loose Leaf Herbal Tea, Lemon, 50 g

Wild harvest rooibos from the Cederberg Mountains of South Africa. A richly delicious caffeine-free herbal infusion with deep earthy notes, bright red berries and cedar.

This is real bush-tea. Beyond organic and indigenous. Harvested once a year on horse-back with machetes to protect the delicate eco system, ensuring no damage is done to the fragile environment.

This is sustainable farming at its best. Rather than being farmed as a mono-culture it is harvested wild where it grows naturally. Where this bush tea grows, wild leopards roam. We source it from a farmer who is also the local GP, Dr. Strauss.

By leaving whole areas of the mountains uncultivated and un-grazed, the delicate ecosystem survives intact. The plants in this arid region are unique and perfectly adapted. It needs no pesticides, no herbicides and no irrigation. For fertilizer, there are leopards. This is far beyond organic farming.

This tea is best brewed with boiling water, for 1 to 3 minutes depending on preference of strength, and can be infused at least twice, making sure to strain all tea off the leaves into your cup. Despite being a herbal infusion, it can be enjoyed strong, with milk, and is delicious with a drop of maple syrup.

With many thanks to Alexander McCall Smith without whose stories we might never have known of the power of bush tea. And without whose kindness you would not find the story within the tin.

“There is no problem so great it cannot be solved by a cup of bush tea.” Precious Ramotswe, the owner of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency.

Rare Tea Company is a small, independent company based in London.

The company was founded in 2004, by Henrietta Lovell, to source and supply the world’s best tea directly and fairly from farmers and their tea gardens.

Wild harvest rooibos from the cederberg mountains of south Africa
A richly delicious caffeine-free infusion with deep earthy notes, bright red berries and cedar
Free from flavourings, pesticides or herbicides
Can be beautifully enhanced by the addition of a twist of lemon zest
Used as a medicine to cure innumerable ills