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2025 Cascadia Autumn Steep 'n Sip | Cascadia Tea Fest Join us online on November 1st to share tea! We'll enjoy a cozy fall vibe as we drink tea, chat with special guests, and enjoy being part of the tea community.

Cascadia Tea Festival Autumn Virtual Steep 'n Sip is coming on Nov 1! Free tickets on our website:
www.cascadiatea.org/event-detail...

Autumn tea boxes with a tea pet and fall teas to go with the event are $17. Financial hardship discount available.

Can't wait!

Come drink tea and enjoy nerding out over the best of beverages!

Tea Camellias Camellia sinensis are the plants we have to thank for White, Green, Oolong, and Black teas.  Though the leaves all come from the same plant, each unique flavor is achieved by harvesting specific leave...

This place is also in NC: camforest.com/collections/...

Or if you are near Oregon: mintoislandtea.com/tea-plants

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NASA to wipe mentions of women, Indigenous people from websites NASA employees told to remove mentions of women, indigenous people, and environmental justice from websites.

On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a reminder to not close your eyes and turn away from what is happening in the US right now. Fascism is an assault on scientific integrity, knowledge, and innovation.

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Women are credited less in science than men - Nature The difference between the number of men and women listed as authors on scientific papers and inventors on patents is at least partly attributable to unacknowledged contributions by women scientists.

On #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience let me remind you that we are NOWHERE NEAR parity. A few examples.

1. Women are credited less in science than men.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Book cover artist was Hildebrandt vs author/editor of the book (Coville.) It looks a lot like the LOTR art by the Hildebrandt brothers, gorgeous rich color and light.

The Unicorn Treasury by Bruce Coville on Bud Plant & Hutchison Books New York: Doubleday, 1988. Hildebrandt, Greg. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ptg., narrow 8vo, pictorial boards, stories, poems and unicorn lore compiled and edited by Coville and illustrated with color and g...

No, artist was Tim (Greg?) Hildebrandt. Book (Unicorn Treasury) was compiled by Coville. www.budplantandhutchisonbooks.com/pages/books/...

Alt text: Schoolhouse Rock screen capture with a bill and a child sitting on the steps to congress. The bill says, "Sorry, kid. There's no song to explain this crap."

Today's tea is also an Assam and Keemun blend from my seldom used le creuset kettle on the gas stovetop because the power went out. Snow day shenanigans.

My "dignity, safety, and well-being" has never been threatened by providing human rights, respect, equality, and inclusion to all humans, including trans women. Those things have been threatened for years by conservative politics, religious conservatism, misogynists, and bigos. That's today's tea.

I feel like we're living in The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade. And maybe we thought we were the visitors there to see the play, but really we're the inmates.

Thinking of Baba Yaga and her capacity for wisdom or wreckage, but always her own strength, as I get ready to craft some treasure necklace strands for her. Haven't decided yet which tea will go with that, maybe something smoky and earthy? What would you recommend?

Book Bans Are Real. American Library Association

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has announced that it is arbitrarily dismissing student and parent complaints arising out of public schools’ documented acts of censorship and discrimination.
Our response: Book bans are real.
Full statement ➡️ www.ala.org/news/2025/01...

So excited for the next Cascadia Tea Festival! 🍵 🐇

Hard to say. I still drink black tea daily, but I really love oolong and fresher sheng pu erh. The comfort element of drinking a mug of black tea is definitely stronger though!

I'm deeply fortunate to have kind and thoughtful people in my life!

Vietnamese tea set with squared teapot and five small teacups on square saucers. The teaware is off-white with a dark blue lotus motif and the teapot has gold handles.

Three packages of Vietnamese tea.

A friend brought back this tea set and tea from Vietnam for me. Excited to fill it up and try the teas! #tea #teasky #teafeed

Not a direct answer, but did you steep with boiling water for 10+ minutes? I've found herbal blends to need a longer steep time and I'm a bit generous with how much I put in the pot/brewing basket.

Crimson Lotus Tea. Super nice people, super good tea. I like my sheng to be fresh and astringent and sweet vs highly fermented, So their Wild Sky is a current favorite.

Sugimoto Tea Company Welcome and thank you for checking out Sugimoto Tea Company’s YouTube Channel! Over three generations we have been working with and directly sourcing from Japanese tea farmers to produce authentic, de...

Your set is super cute! There are a lot of great videos that walk through making matcha, Sugimoto has some (and good matcha) www.youtube.com/@SugimotoAme...

Seeing this, kind of inspired to break out some Vietnamese dark tea from Anna Ye Tea.

You might also like Mariage Freres, from Paris. Marco Polo is a best-seller but Black Opera is very flavorful and fragrant.

Depends what flavors you like, how you are brewing it, and what style of tea you prefer. +1 on the H&S Paris suggestion someone made. If you like strong flavors and cinnamon, Market Spice Tea would be a winner. Take a look at @fridaytea.com - she just got a bagging machine for bagged tes vs loose.

Panettone is delicious and your tea mug is awesome.

Is it a genmaicha with matcha in it, or a matcha with ground toasted rice? Either way, green tea and toasted rice are so satisfying together.

A hand-crafted burgundy teacup with blue wash, covered in decorative pointed dragon scales with a rounded belly and extremely comfortable handle site on a wooden surface with blurred windows in the background. This beautiful monster holds a tremendous amount of tea.

For National Hot Tea Day (US) I'm enjoying a massive quantity of black tea in a new dragon scale tea mug I received as a gift. It holds so much tea. I love it. #tea #handmadepottery