https://simplecast.com Tea, Mud and Hope 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. 2019 Windy Hollow Farm en Thu, 23 Mar 2023 13:06:13 +0000 Thu, 23 Mar 2023 13:06:24 +0000 https://tea-mud-and-hope.simplecast.com Tea, Mud and Hope https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/c59fc0e7-a1d1-450b-9219-cf5d5b69b159/77c7df8d-4157-4eb9-b5e0-80779383d128/3000x3000/podcast-teaseed3.jpg?aid=rss_feed https://tea-mud-and-hope.simplecast.com episodic 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. Monica, Monica Griesbaum no https://feeds.simplecast.com/WPn9CBSp biodiversity, camelliasinensis, climate, climateaction, climatechange, glyphosate, growingadvise, naturalfarming, naturaltea, nature, organic, pesticides, plants, science, scotland, tea, teagarden, tee, thee, greentea, blacktea, gardening, finetea, ecosystem, handcrafted, coldclimate, teaprocessing, teamaker, looseleaftea, growing, advise, teagrowing Monica from Windy Hollow monica@windyhollowfarm.co.uk 1cca8442-255c-4c20-b925-db0aa16f03e7 Chatting with dear dear Erica Moore :) Eteaket founder and supporter of well being Thu, 23 Mar 2023 13:06:13 +0000 monica@windyhollowfarm.co.uk (Erica Moore and Monica Griesbaum) https://tea-mud-and-hope.simplecast.com/episodes/chatting-with-dear-dear-erica-moore-eteaket-founder-and-supporter-of-well-being-ut_YCESq Chatting with dear dear Erica Moore :) Eteaket founder and supporter of well being Erica Moore and Monica Griesbaum 01:01:41 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 quality teas and supporting wellbeing in everyone with her Thrive in Three workshops. This conversation gives us all a little glimpse into the personal world of Erica Moore. Thank you so much for sharing and giving us your time Erica. Was wonderful to do this together. :) 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 quality teas and supporting wellbeing in everyone with her Thrive in Three workshops. This conversation gives us all a little glimpse into the personal world of Erica Moore. Thank you so much for sharing and giving us your time Erica. Was wonderful to do this together. :) support, events, camelliasinensis, teagarden, teabrand, lifechat, london, wellness, edinburgh, hospitality, wholesale, scottish, international, teahouse, teablends, offgrid, tee, sharing, thee, lifeisshort, thriveinthree, lawyer, teabar, eteaket, womeninbusiness, learning, centraledinburgh, moby, womensenterprisescotland, brexit, ecommerceshop, conceptstore, horticulture, teaplant, female, biodiversity, childcare, finetea, femaleleader, specialitytea, teamovement, teatravel, breastfeeding, organic, teabusiness, teachat, smallbusiness, wellbeing, tea no full 21 3583dc67-0eca-40d5-915a-15fa0d6ec586 The inaugural Prague Tea Fest, lets chat with its wonderful creator Agha :) Tue, 21 Feb 2023 13:21:35 +0000 monica@windyhollowfarm.co.uk (Agha and Monica) https://tea-mud-and-hope.simplecast.com/episodes/the-inaugural-prague-tea-fest-lets-chat-with-its-wonderful-creator-agha-fth_dZO7 The inaugural Prague Tea Fest, lets chat with its wonderful creator Agha :) Agha and Monica 01:06:14 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 growing movement. Thank you Agha, was lovely to spend this time together and hear about your exciting new tea event. See you in a few days :) 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 growing movement. Thank you Agha, was lovely to spend this time together and hear about your exciting new tea event. See you in a few days :) event, drink tea, tea trips, handcrafted, tea travel, ceramics, fest, cold brews, loose leave, czech, pesticides, teefest, love tea, prag, teafest, tee, grownineurope, tea grower, puerh, teamaker, pragueteafest, taiwan, europe, city, europa, prague, rare tea, tea community, tea appreciation, finetea, vietnam, tea event, tea tasting, teacher, tea speaker, china, wellbeing, tea no full 20 d394cc3f-bec1-40d8-8b9e-b4e385335001 The biochemistry of tea with the wonderful Professor Elisabetta Damiani 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 antioxidants linked to types of tea and preparation of tea. For example, isn't it fascinating that her research so far indicate that white tea cold brewed contains the highest amount of antioxidants? Does this mean, we wonder, that the most health benefit possibly comes from enjoying teas that are least processed and cold brewed? So interesting and Liz and her team are on a journey to find out more, also now studying the newly emerging teas grown in European soils. We hope you enjoy this episode. many many well wishes and hope you are enjoying some great teas this winter. :) 

As always get in touch with comments and suggestions, we enjoy hearing from you. Get in touch via email on monica@windyhollowfarm.co.uk or via my instagram windyhollowfarm_

Many well wishes and take care Monica :)    

]]> Sat, 12 Nov 2022 11:31:42 +0000 monica@windyhollowfarm.co.uk (Monica from Windy Hollow) https://tea-mud-and-hope.simplecast.com/episodes/the-biochemistry-of-tea-with-the-wonderful-professor-elisabetta-damiani-mL0mLz55 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 antioxidants linked to types of tea and preparation of tea. For example, isn't it fascinating that her research so far indicate that white tea cold brewed contains the highest amount of antioxidants? Does this mean, we wonder, that the most health benefit possibly comes from enjoying teas that are least processed and cold brewed? So interesting and Liz and her team are on a journey to find out more, also now studying the newly emerging teas grown in European soils. We hope you enjoy this episode. many many well wishes and hope you are enjoying some great teas this winter. :) 

As always get in touch with comments and suggestions, we enjoy hearing from you. Get in touch via email on monica@windyhollowfarm.co.uk or via my instagram windyhollowfarm_

Many well wishes and take care Monica :)    

]]> The biochemistry of tea with the wonderful Professor Elisabetta Damiani Monica from Windy Hollow 00:55:49 free radicals, camelliasinensis, italy, womeninscience, biochemist, science, tea growers, azores, health, tee, cold brew, metals, wissenschaft, nutrition, taiwan, chemical, europe, laboratory, soil, flavonoids, antioxidants, biochemistry, teamaster, wild tea, catechin, polyphenols, teacher, tea geeks, white tea, stem, china, wellbeing, tea no full 19 2f7308c1-74f3-48ca-a9f9-ada81ffd8b61 Tea education for positive change, a chat with my wonderful tea friend Sooz :) Thu, 3 Jun 2021 12:03:01 +0000 monica@windyhollowfarm.co.uk (Monica with special guest Suzette Hammond from Being Tea) https://tea-mud-and-hope.simplecast.com/episodes/tea-education-for-positive-change-a-chat-with-my-wonderful-tea-friend-sooz-3Ij9DSty Tea education for positive change, a chat with my wonderful tea friend Sooz :) Monica with special guest Suzette Hammond from Being Tea 01:13:04 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 education having the potential to being much more than scholastic learning. Absolutely fascinating, thank you so much Sooz for joining me for this episode. I loved listening to you and found it very stimulating. It made me think of my own tea work too. (PS of course we also chatted wild tea in Vietnam and nibbling on tea leaves :) 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 education having the potential to being much more than scholastic learning. Absolutely fascinating, thank you so much Sooz for joining me for this episode. I loved listening to you and found it very stimulating. It made me think of my own tea work too. (PS of course we also chatted wild tea in Vietnam and nibbling on tea leaves :) multicultural, teaenjoyment, camelliasinensis, usa, teaknowledge, chicago, culture, snowshan, podcast, teagrower, tee, thee, opportunities, traumainformedyoga, teatasting, teamaker, taiwan, equity, europe, bipoc, tealeaf, equality, education, political, finetea, positivechange, yoga, vietnam, wildtea, scholarships, teapodcast, teatravel, besteducator, foraging, worldteaaward, mentalhealth, china, fairpay, change, teachat, teaeducation, wellbeing, tea no full 18 1310a5bd-050c-421c-8990-5047676fc3bc Chatting tea with the lovely Tim D'Offay :) Sun, 16 May 2021 08:55:27 +0000 monica@windyhollowfarm.co.uk (Monica with special guest Tim D'Offay) https://tea-mud-and-hope.simplecast.com/episodes/chatting-tea-with-the-lovely-tim-doffay-7ziuSdD_ Chatting tea with the lovely Tim D'Offay :) Monica with special guest Tim D'Offay 01:02:48 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 provenance in tea and supporting fair pay for people working in tea. Thank you so much Tim for being a wonderful guest :) See you soon over some fine tea. 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 provenance in tea and supporting fair pay for people working in tea. Thank you so much Tim for being a wonderful guest :) See you soon over some fine tea. teaprocessing, ceramics, teaknowledge, newbook, wudong, climate, climateaction, teagrowing, japan, podcast, teaappreciation, tee, thee, longjing, taiwan, teaculture, europe, dancong, teaceramics, postcardteas, teabook, provenance, biodiversity, finetea, climatechange, terroir, europeantea, dancongtea, writing, china, fairpay, teachat, tea no full 17 801db3d8-5c2b-48ea-bf15-5a9895d4cf4b The Tale of Tea with the wonderful George van Driem Sat, 17 Apr 2021 12:01:31 +0000 monica@windyhollowfarm.co.uk (Monica from Windy Hollow) https://tea-mud-and-hope.simplecast.com/episodes/the-tale-of-tea-with-the-wonderful-george-van-driem-K2wA9GmW The Tale of Tea with the wonderful George van Driem Monica from Windy Hollow 01:00:13 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 pleasure to read. I love how it feels like many tiny jigsaw pieces coming together :) Thank you George for sharing your work with us. 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 pleasure to read. I love how it feels like many tiny jigsaw pieces coming together :) Thank you George for sharing your work with us. teaprocessing, camelliasinensis, raretea, teaknowledge, climate, climateaction, history, teagrowing, plantdiversity, whitetea, teagrower, tee, thee, thetaleoftea, saffron, teamaker, bern, europe, camellia, bio, teahistory, longhistory, linguistics, biodiversity, finetea, diversity, vietnam, climatechange, coldbrew, monoculture, teatravel, earlgrey, language, china, psticides, tea no full 16 09593f10-d64a-4922-ab36-e487861c9268 The talented Shiloh Gastello shows us how to slow down with tea :) Sun, 11 Apr 2021 15:42:10 +0000 monica@windyhollowfarm.co.uk (Monica from Windy Hollow) https://tea-mud-and-hope.simplecast.com/episodes/the-wonderful-shiloh-gastello-shows-us-how-to-slow-down-with-tea-4jl_sUFz The talented Shiloh Gastello shows us how to slow down with tea :) Monica from Windy Hollow 00:59:15 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 nature, creativity and the very rich tea culture existing at present and throughout the past. Thank you so much for what you do Shiloh. It was wonderful to hear all about it :) To get in touch with Shiloh, you can contact him via instagram on nuev_orden 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 nature, creativity and the very rich tea culture existing at present and throughout the past. Thank you so much for what you do Shiloh. It was wonderful to hear all about it :) To get in touch with Shiloh, you can contact him via instagram on nuev_orden usa, ceramics, teaknowledge, somatic, somaticawareness, teatree, ceramicmaker, teageeks, teaappreciation, teateaching, tee, thee, dialogues, selfdevelopment, ayurveda, educator, creativity, finetea, artist, wildtea, teafriends, slowingdown, awareness, intuitivewriting, nature, china, teachat, journey, teaeducation, wellbeing, tea no full 15 2dbcdb87-bc85-44d0-b60f-95110a2897e4 The wonderful Lydia Gautier shares her thoughts on professional tea sourcing and gives us a beautiful insight into her work :) Tue, 2 Feb 2021 18:28:23 +0000 monica@windyhollowfarm.co.uk (Monica and Lydia) https://tea-mud-and-hope.simplecast.com/episodes/tea-sourcing-tea-writing-and-tea-naming-with-the-wonderful-lydia-gautier-UpRvmC3Y The wonderful Lydia Gautier shares her thoughts on professional tea sourcing and gives us a beautiful insight into her work :) Monica and Lydia 00:54:36 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, a protected name - Snow Shan Tea. Wonderful to hear. Lydia then also tells us about her tea book writing, we discuss climate change and the tea world and the tea awards she is involved in. Very excitedly for me we finish off by hearing about what goes on in her tea lab :) Thank you so much Lydia for doing this in English - your English is miles better than my French :) You can get in touch with Lydia via her website lydiagautier.com and instagram on lydiagautier.thes.tisanes Enjoy :) 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, a protected name - Snow Shan Tea. Wonderful to hear. Lydia then also tells us about her tea book writing, we discuss climate change and the tea world and the tea awards she is involved in. Very excitedly for me we finish off by hearing about what goes on in her tea lab :) Thank you so much Lydia for doing this in English - your English is miles better than my French :) You can get in touch with Lydia via her website lydiagautier.com and instagram on lydiagautier.thes.tisanes Enjoy :) camelliasinensis, teafiends, teagarden, author, climate, teatrees, teaorchard, writer, womenintea, whitetea, puer, blacktea, tee, teamaker, taiwan, tealab, oolong, teaprofessional, teacakes, snowshantea, teabook, wine, france, finetea, plants, vietnam, climatechange, teasourcing, teaproduction, wildtea, teatravel, agedtea, organic, tisane, china, teaauthor, teachat, tea no full 14 9475bce3-7e64-472a-a6e8-3170f96636cf Volunteering in tea with the wonderful Mona Jhunjhnuwala :) Thu, 21 Jan 2021 17:16:02 +0000 monica@windyhollowfarm.co.uk (Monica from Windy Hollow Organic Tea with special guest Mona Jhunjhnuwala from Teawala :)) https://tea-mud-and-hope.simplecast.com/episodes/volunteering-in-tea-with-the-wonderful-mona-MvvSjV_w Volunteering in tea with the wonderful Mona Jhunjhnuwala :) Monica from Windy Hollow Organic Tea with special guest Mona Jhunjhnuwala from Teawala :) 01:08:48 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. Thank you so much Mona for sharing your experiences with us, it was fun and inspiring to hear all about it. 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. Thank you so much Mona for sharing your experiences with us, it was fun and inspiring to hear all about it. food, teaprocessing, teaenjoyment, camelliasinensis, teatrip, teamaking, teagarden, greentea, fujian, korea, japan, teaplanting, volunteer, teageeks, whitetea, blacktea, teaappreciation, tee, zhenghe, taiwan, learning, drinktea, europe, wwoof, wwoofing, the, teawala, finetea, tealearning, teafriends, scotland, hongkong, teatravel, teatour, volunteering, southkorea, china, challenge, teachat, wellbeing, tea, darjeeling no full 13 4f8771fc-10fe-46d1-927d-727ea73edebf People, spaces and climate with the wonderful Tea Explorer Jeff Fuchs :) Tue, 8 Dec 2020 15:05:13 +0000 monica@windyhollowfarm.co.uk (Monica from Windy Hollow) https://tea-mud-and-hope.simplecast.com/episodes/people-spaces-and-climate-with-the-wonderful-tea-explorer-jeff-fuchs-1Pw49Umv People, spaces and climate with the wonderful Tea Explorer Jeff Fuchs :) Monica from Windy Hollow 01:08:15 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, the natural world and a changing climate. Maybe we can all find solutions together. 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, the natural world and a changing climate. Maybe we can all find solutions together. handcrafted, teaknowledge, climate, climateaction, biodynamic, teatree, droughts, exploration, asia, tee, thee, permaculture, teahouseroad, grazing, mountains, puerh, communities, yak, teanomads, connections, moss, biodiversity, finetea, climatechange, orchids, wildtea, scotland, monoculture, teapodcast, teatravel, teaforest, nomads, himalaya, database, nature, teaexplorer, teamountains, organic, canadian, documentary, china, oralnarratives, yunnan, croprotation, elders, naturalfarming, tea no full 12 e6aaaaf9-c27a-4083-b2c9-a5f1c7a65bbf Tea history with the lovely Wenzhuo Liu Thu, 26 Nov 2020 16:39:37 +0000 monica@windyhollowfarm.co.uk (Monica from Windy Hollow) https://tea-mud-and-hope.simplecast.com/episodes/tea-history-with-the-lovely-wenzhuo-liu-GkuNk1I3 Tea history with the lovely Wenzhuo Liu Monica from Windy Hollow 01:00:45 What a treat to chat with Wenzhuo :) Based in Germany her life is all about tea. Her work gives us insight into tea history, tea art and the wonderful music played during traditional tea ceremony in China. Its fascinating to hear from her about Zhu Quan who lived about 600 years ago in China and wrote a tea manual which hugely influenced tea culture at the time. Wenzhuo translated this book into English and its wonderful to get a look into that time and how tea was enjoyed then. We also hear from Wenzhuo about her plans to grow tea in Germany and I cannot wait to visit her tea garden and make some teas with her :) What a treat to chat with Wenzhuo :) Based in Germany her life is all about tea. Her work gives us insight into tea history, tea art and the wonderful music played during traditional tea ceremony in China. Its fascinating to hear from her about Zhu Quan who lived about 600 years ago in China and wrote a tea manual which hugely influenced tea culture at the time. Wenzhuo translated this book into English and its wonderful to get a look into that time and how tea was enjoyed then. We also hear from Wenzhuo about her plans to grow tea in Germany and I cannot wait to visit her tea garden and make some teas with her :) recipes, teaknowledge, greentea, climate, teafans, history, cuisine, germany, music, teagrower, blacktea, teaappreciation, tee, thee, teamaker, travel, art, teaculture, europe, teahistory, teaplant, teabook, teadrinking, teapowder, teacake, teaceremony, finetea, teaandfood, teaincolderclimates, zhuquan, teaart, teafriends, scotland, teapodcast, teatravel, china, teachat, wellbeing, tea no full 11 5ceae40a-5a62-4a75-b6bf-2bd61349439c Tea growing in Canada - The wonderful Victor from Westholme shares his tea growing and tea making story with us :) Tue, 6 Oct 2020 12:17:35 +0000 monica@windyhollowfarm.co.uk (Victor Vesely and Monica Griesbaum) https://tea-mud-and-hope.simplecast.com/episodes/tea-growing-in-canada-the-wonderful-victor-from-westholme-shares-his-tea-growing-and-tea-making-story-with-us-vkJzW_vS Tea growing in Canada - The wonderful Victor from Westholme shares his tea growing and tea making story with us :) Victor Vesely and Monica Griesbaum 01:04:33 Oh what a treat to get this insight into tea growing and making in Canada. In this episode we hear from Victor Vesely from Westholme tea. Victor is a wonderfully passionate tea maker on Vancouver Island where he has grown tea for the last 10 years. I absolutely love his organic, singleestate teas reflecting the Canadian terroir. Enjoy his story :) and if you would like to get in touch with Victor he is on Instagram on canadian.tea.maker and westholme_tea together with his talented partner Margit who creates beautiful ceramics. Oh what a treat to get this insight into tea growing and making in Canada. In this episode we hear from Victor Vesely from Westholme tea. Victor is a wonderfully passionate tea maker on Vancouver Island where he has grown tea for the last 10 years. I absolutely love his organic, singleestate teas reflecting the Canadian terroir. Enjoy his story :) and if you would like to get in touch with Victor he is on Instagram on canadian.tea.maker and westholme_tea together with his talented partner Margit who creates beautiful ceramics. enjoytea, teaprocessing, teaseeds, camelliasinensis, canadiantea, handcrafted, ceramics, teaknowledge, growingseason, climateaction, teagrower, tee, thee, handmade, teaplants, teamaker, singleestate, fromseed, experimentation, coldclimate, temperature, provenance, biodiversity, organictea, finetea, teafriends, scotland, teapodcast, terroir, growing, canada, frost, teachat, naturalfarming, tea, dormancy, teaappreaciation no full 10 08f2fd30-1bc7-476f-8cad-50d5addf446d Taiwanese Teas with the lovely Andy Kincart :) Thu, 30 Jul 2020 13:21:53 +0000 monica@windyhollowfarm.co.uk (Andy Kincart and Monica Griesbaum) https://tea-mud-and-hope.simplecast.com/episodes/taiwanese-teas-with-the-lovely-andy-kincard-yF_nmN_z Taiwanese Teas with the lovely Andy Kincart :) Andy Kincart and Monica Griesbaum 01:12:39 A wonderful chat with Andy about his tea life in Taiwan. Andy is an American but has now spent most of his adult life in beautiful Taiwan working with tea. So interesting to hear about the variety of traditional and newer teas being made and enjoyed there. We chat about different tea areas in Taiwan and tea processing. We cover different oolongs and other teas, wild tea trees, organic and other chemical free teas. Its also wonderful to hear about the welcoming tea culture existing in Taiwan and we cover challenges tea makers face in more recent years including climate change and tea pricing. We could have spent all day! Have to continue our Taiwan tea chat some other day. :) A wonderful chat with Andy about his tea life in Taiwan. Andy is an American but has now spent most of his adult life in beautiful Taiwan working with tea. So interesting to hear about the variety of traditional and newer teas being made and enjoyed there. We chat about different tea areas in Taiwan and tea processing. We cover different oolongs and other teas, wild tea trees, organic and other chemical free teas. Its also wonderful to hear about the welcoming tea culture existing in Taiwan and we cover challenges tea makers face in more recent years including climate change and tea pricing. We could have spent all day! Have to continue our Taiwan tea chat some other day. :) enjoytea, camelliasinensis, teaknowledge, climateaction, culture, teaprices, livingintaiwan, whitetea, teagrower, blacktea, tee, consumer, pruning, thee, cultivar, teabowlfestival, teafarmer, puerh, teamaker, taiwan, oolong, teabuyer, roots, challenges, organictea, climatechange, mildwinters, wildtea, taiwaneseculture, teapodcast, traditionaltea, teatravel, propertea, nature, organic, language, taiwanesetea, china, tea, lunarcalendar, teaappreaciation no full 9 c2c80458-48b8-4502-a27d-7f066f06e821 Tea chat with Martin also called Mr Eighty Degrees :) Fri, 15 May 2020 09:43:28 +0000 monica@windyhollowfarm.co.uk (Martin Bohacik and Monica Griesbaum) https://tea-mud-and-hope.simplecast.com/episodes/tea-chat-with-martin-or-also-called-mr-eighty-degrees-96dWPAFe Tea chat with Martin also called Mr Eighty Degrees :) Martin Bohacik and Monica Griesbaum 00:59:38 In this episode we hear from Mr Eighty Degrees about his gorgeous tea magazine, how he started and his hopes for the future. We chat about Martin's tea travels to Japan, China and the wonderful biodynamic tea garden in Portugal owned by Nina Gruntkowski. We also hear about the challenges during lockdown and about creativity. We finish off with a laugh when I suggest that his tea mag could do with an agony aunt page :) Enjoy In this episode we hear from Mr Eighty Degrees about his gorgeous tea magazine, how he started and his hopes for the future. We chat about Martin's tea travels to Japan, China and the wonderful biodynamic tea garden in Portugal owned by Nina Gruntkowski. We also hear about the challenges during lockdown and about creativity. We finish off with a laugh when I suggest that his tea mag could do with an agony aunt page :) Enjoy raretea, lockdown, handcrafted, teaknowledge, greentea, london, trees, teagrowing, magazine, japan, teawriting, biodynamic, agonyaunt, teahouse, teaphotography, teagrower, tee, teastash, wildlife, the, illustrations, portugal, illustrator, covid, teamagazine, articles, harvest, biodiversity, finetea, climatechange, teafriends, reading, teatravel, nature, organic, writing, virus, china, yunnan, teaplucker, teachat, teagardens, tea no full 8 69424ecf-3267-43f7-855c-3b6b0f14a413 Tea chat during lockdown with the wonderful Alex Simpson Thu, 23 Apr 2020 15:57:54 +0000 monica@windyhollowfarm.co.uk (Monica from Windy Hollow with guest Alex Simpson) https://tea-mud-and-hope.simplecast.com/episodes/tea-chat-during-lockdown-with-the-wonderful-alex-simpson-f7i4teW4 Tea chat during lockdown with the wonderful Alex Simpson Monica from Windy Hollow with guest Alex Simpson 00:50:20 In this episode I am chatting with Alex from Postcardteas in London about everything tea. Tea making and selling during lockdown, his important role in the Postcardteas team, tea travel, tea growing across Europe and more..... Enjoy :) In this episode I am chatting with Alex from Postcardteas in London about everything tea. Tea making and selling during lockdown, his important role in the Postcardteas team, tea travel, tea growing across Europe and more..... Enjoy :) camelliasinensis, teablender, lockdown, teaknowledge, climate, climateaction, london, teagrowing, pesticides, covid19, teahouse, tee, fertiliser, europe, oolong, roasting, sommelier, postcardteas, tearoaster, plants, chamomile, teafriends, scotland, aroma, herbalinfusion, hops, organic, nettle, virus, teachat, tea no full 7 8d6d409d-eb11-4ff2-b4a8-04f8a4a2044f Tea Growing in the face of climate change Tue, 31 Mar 2020 12:01:14 +0000 monica@windyhollowfarm.co.uk (Monica from Windy Hollow) https://tea-mud-and-hope.simplecast.com/episodes/tea-growing-in-the-face-of-climate-change-6JJ1IjxG Tea Growing in the face of climate change Monica from Windy Hollow 00:35:21 This episode introduces various tea growing approaches which may make our growing spaces more robust in the face of climate change. Included are organic, biodynamic, natural growing, agroforestry, wild tea and more. Climate change has arrived and what are we going to do about it? (This article was printed as a shortened version in the beautiful Eighty Degrees Tea Magazine Issue 3) :) This episode introduces various tea growing approaches which may make our growing spaces more robust in the face of climate change. Included are organic, biodynamic, natural growing, agroforestry, wild tea and more. Climate change has arrived and what are we going to do about it? (This article was printed as a shortened version in the beautiful Eighty Degrees Tea Magazine Issue 3) :) klima, camelliasinensis, growingtea, handcrafted, teagarden, naturalgrowing, climate, climateaction, biodynamic, drought, erosion, thes, teagrower, tee, teamaker, singleestate, klimawandel, gardening, bio, positivechanges, rewilding, perthshire, biodiversity, climatechange, scotland, teaplantation, flooding, organic, growingadvice, agroforestry, wellbeing, naturalfarming, tea no full 6 49394a28-3f14-459e-84ac-efc58daac2e5 Community tea growing in the Ukraine with special guest Maksym Malyhin Here is a little bit of info about Maksym. Born in Eastern Ukraine, Maksym lived in Russia for a number of years where he developed his love for tea. Since 1991, he now lives in the Ukraine. His educational background is chemistry with a speciality of water and soil analysis. 

Since 2004 Maksym has been actively involved in the tea project teatips.ru an online tea info portal. 

Over the last couple of years Maksym has also become a national judge of the Tea Master Cup in Ukraine, exciting!

His main interest is tea history and growing tea in northern regions of the world. Enjoy :)

]]> Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:18:47 +0000 monica@windyhollowfarm.co.uk (Maksym Malyhin and Monica Griesbaum) https://tea-mud-and-hope.simplecast.com/episodes/community-tea-growing-in-the-ukraine-with-special-guest-maksym-malyhin-DdW1BDCa Here is a little bit of info about Maksym. Born in Eastern Ukraine, Maksym lived in Russia for a number of years where he developed his love for tea. Since 1991, he now lives in the Ukraine. His educational background is chemistry with a speciality of water and soil analysis. 

Since 2004 Maksym has been actively involved in the tea project teatips.ru an online tea info portal. 

Over the last couple of years Maksym has also become a national judge of the Tea Master Cup in Ukraine, exciting!

His main interest is tea history and growing tea in northern regions of the world. Enjoy :)

]]> Community tea growing in the Ukraine with special guest Maksym Malyhin Maksym Malyhin and Monica Griesbaum 00:13:40 In this mini episode I hear from Maksym Malyhin about his work in the community tea garden near Mukachevo, Ukraine. After being first established about 70 years ago as a trial project, this tea garden is now being revived for the community and the tea produced is being enjoyed together. Wonderful :) In this mini episode I hear from Maksym Malyhin about his work in the community tea garden near Mukachevo, Ukraine. After being first established about 70 years ago as a trial project, this tea garden is now being revived for the community and the tea produced is being enjoyed together. Wonderful :) enjoytea, camelliasinensis, teamaking, teagarden, teaknowledge, teacultivation, northernregions, history, tearesearch, teaproject, teaadventures, tee, wateranalysis, russiantea, teaplants, soilanalysis, nopesticides, community, worldtea, teamastercup, teahistory, mukacheva, soil, teaplant, teamaster, teafriends, scotland, leaf, teapodcast, maketea, looseleaf, workingtogether, acrosslanguages, ukraine, tea no full 5 d95031b9-3e5b-4e6e-8872-3cc2e3e99948 Tea growing across Europe with special guest Denis Mazerolle Fri, 21 Feb 2020 14:05:56 +0000 monica@windyhollowfarm.co.uk (Monica from Windy Hollow Organic Farm with special guest Denis Mazerolle from France) https://tea-mud-and-hope.simplecast.com/episodes/tea-growing-across-europe-with-special-guest-denis-mazerolle-Qp5dCfLs Tea growing across Europe with special guest Denis Mazerolle Monica from Windy Hollow Organic Farm with special guest Denis Mazerolle from France 00:41:50 A wonderful tea chat with Denis who chairs the Association Tea Grown in Europe. We hear from Denis about wonderful tea projects across Europe, new and established tea gardens and the excitement of many European single estate teas becoming more available to tea drinkers over the next few years. We also chat climate change and how this may affect tea growing. Hope you enjoy this episode :) A wonderful tea chat with Denis who chairs the Association Tea Grown in Europe. We hear from Denis about wonderful tea projects across Europe, new and established tea gardens and the excitement of many European single estate teas becoming more available to tea drinkers over the next few years. We also chat climate change and how this may affect tea growing. Hope you enjoy this episode :) teaseeds, camelliasinensis, teagarden, greentea, naturalgrowing, climate change, teagrowing, germany, thes, azores, podcast, blacktea, tee, glyphosate, europeanstandards, teamaker, natural, singleestate, biotee, portugal, biodiversity, france, uk, atlanticocean, teafriends, scotland, chemicalsintea, terroir, switzerland, organic, china, teadrinker, tea no full 4 40ee10f3-1fa3-4412-9363-7a9043a46276 Drinking fine tea in Paris Mon, 27 Jan 2020 23:50:35 +0000 monica@windyhollowfarm.co.uk (Monica from Windy Hollow) https://tea-mud-and-hope.simplecast.com/episodes/drinking-fine-tea-in-paris-Sd6knAIU Drinking fine tea in Paris Monica from Windy Hollow 00:17:42 Fine teas in Paris. This episode is about exploring the tea scene in the gorgeous city of Paris. I am popping into tea houses and tea shops and sharing with you some of the wonderful tea experiences Paris has to offer. Fine teas in Paris. This episode is about exploring the tea scene in the gorgeous city of Paris. I am popping into tea houses and tea shops and sharing with you some of the wonderful tea experiences Paris has to offer. teaenjoyment, camelliasinensis, teashop, teaknowledge, greentea, newzealand, climateaction, japan, outdoors, train, thes, teahouse, tee, teamaker, bytrain, publictransport, oolong, bio, biotee, the, organictea, finetea, teafriends, bluetea, teatour, organic, paris, looseleaf, china, walking, tea no full 3 413e6456-0743-433e-9ef4-ad51120c5fd1 Tea travel with Marjolein Raijmakers Sun, 8 Dec 2019 08:31:06 +0000 monica@windyhollowfarm.co.uk (The wonderful Marjolein Reijmakers chatting with Monica) https://tea-mud-and-hope.simplecast.com/episodes/tea-travel-with-marjolein-raijmakers-9qLCUc5j Tea travel with Marjolein Raijmakers The wonderful Marjolein Reijmakers chatting with Monica 00:55:37 Welcome to out tea travel episode where Monica chats with the wonderful Mar about her travel tea adventures in China, Sri Lanka, Japan and South Korea and reveals her favourite tea house : ) Welcome to out tea travel episode where Monica chats with the wonderful Mar about her travel tea adventures in China, Sri Lanka, Japan and South Korea and reveals her favourite tea house : ) camelliasinensis, teatrip, teajobs, teagarden, greentea, korea, japan, teahouse, blacktea, tee, thee, teafriend, teaplants, teatasting, teamaker, longjing, tealove, teaplucking, postcardteas, srilanka, teabook, organictea, finetea, teafriends, teaplantation, teapodcast, teatravel, southkorea, china, teachat, teabooks, tea no full 2 3a8b3839-a5eb-4f29-82ef-b7f315671c68 Setting the scene Setting the scene

]]> Thu, 21 Nov 2019 12:23:38 +0000 monica@windyhollowfarm.co.uk (Monica from Windy Hollow Organic Farm) https://tea-mud-and-hope.simplecast.com/episodes/setting-the-scene-xbYic81K Setting the scene

]]> Setting the scene Monica from Windy Hollow Organic Farm 00:07:12 Exciting new podcast for real fine tea fans, growers, lovers of nature and biodiversity. Growing and producing tea in a colder climate in the face of climate change. Featuring the camellia sinensis tea plant :) Exciting new podcast for real fine tea fans, growers, lovers of nature and biodiversity. Growing and producing tea in a colder climate in the face of climate change. Featuring the camellia sinensis tea plant :) camelliasinensis, teamaking, teaknowledge, botany, climateaction, science, pesticides, teageek, outdoors, biodynamic, health, teaappreciation, tee, thee, soilscience, teatasting, microorganism, farming, gardening, soil, teadrinking, perthshire, biodiversity, finetea, climatechange, fungi, scotland, hope, growing, nature, organic, teaseed, mycorrhizal, naturalfarming, tea no trailer 1