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Welcome tea lovers to our next episode of Wednesday Wisdom.  What's it all about?  You can read more on the background to this blog in our first post but in short every week I come together for an hour of discussion with KC from Ambootia and then distill the points that interest me into a blog for you to read & enjoy.  I always start this blog by saying that in the tea world and indeed the wider world we are all students.  My aim in sharing these interests is not to be 'right' indeed in many cases I expect to return to these topics...

.Welcome tea lovers to our next episode of Wednesday Wisdom.  What's it all about?  You can read more on the background to this blog in our first post but in short every week I come together for an hour of discussion with KC from Ambootia and then distill the points that interest me into a blog for you to read & enjoy.  I always start this blog by saying that in the tea world and indeed the wider world we are all students.  My aim in sharing these interests is not to be 'right' indeed in many cases I expect to...

.Welcome tea lovers to our next episode of Wednesday Wisdom.  What's it all about?  You can read more on the background to this blog in our first post but in short every week I come together for an hour of discussion with KC from Ambootia and then distill the points that interest me into a blog for you to read & enjoy.  I always start this blog by saying that in the tea world and indeed the wider world we are all students.  My aim in sharing these interests is not to be 'right' indeed in many cases I expect to...

Michelle Comins : Following my trip to Ambootia in 2018 I always loved receiving my copy of Krishnendu Chatterjee [KCs] ‘Maverick’ in my inbox every week - every issue packed full of thoughts on many aspects of agriculture & soil and always ending with ‘golden words of wisdom'.  Having had the good fortune to travel all over the tea world I’ve noticed myself growing more and more fascinated in organic & biodynamic agriculture.  So, during lockdown, I finally plucked up the courage to ask if KC would offer to share some of his wisdom with me every week.   He kindly accepted - so...

We meet so many interesting people through our life in #tea so we have decided to launch a simple podcast called Comins & Friends .  This is the space where 'Michelle Comins - co-founder of direct trade tea merchants Comins Tea invites friends & collaborators to  share their stories over a bowl of tea' Ahead of the release of our new Monday Tea & Meditation package next week you can listen to Michelle chatting to our long time friend and collaborator Camille Gibson about how they met, the place that tea & meditation holds in their lives and this exciting new collaboration...