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CELEBRATING 1 YEAR ๐Ÿ’ซ

Celebrating Our First Trip Around The Sun in Flagstaff, Arizona ๐ŸŒฒ ๐ŸŒžย ๐ŸŒฒ Get the scoop on our story,ย customer favorites, and more about this tiny tea shop! WHERE THE PINES MEET THE DESERT Flagstaff is surrounded by mountains, desert, and ponderosa pines, making it a quirky, friendly, and adventurous place! The small city is one of Arizona's truest gems. A ski resort, national monuments, Native American pueblo sites ,and cliff dwellings are just a few things that give Flagstaff so much personality. The downtown area where our little tea shop is located attracts visitors from all over the world, and the locals as well! This weekend we are celebrating our first year anniversary of this location being open. We are so...

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WHITE PEACH ๐Ÿ‘

White Peach the antioxidant rich & refreshing fountain of youth ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ‘ White Peach With delicate white tea, juicy peach and magically healing marigold flowers.ย  BREW TIPS: Prepare with a Mesquite Honey and fresh squeezed lemon and serve iced (Bailey's way)ย  or enjoy unsweetened and iced (Dana's way). Why do we love this blend? Here's why... White tea is made from the young tea buds and leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant, the same plant that produces green, black, oolong, and pu erh teas. The delicate process of drying these young leaves and buds to make white tea preserves the high antioxidant content, making white tea a super wellness booster! The matriarch of our tea family, Dana, is a...

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MARIGOLD TEA BLENDS ๐ŸŒผ

Marigold: The Sun Flower ๐ŸŒž skin healing โˆ™ antioxidant rich โˆ™ immune boosting ๐ŸŒž Marigolds are considered sacred flowers to the Aztec culture, and are often linked to the sun and represent power, strength, and light that live in a person. Aztecs also attributed healing and even magical powers to the plant.It is said that marigold seeds were given to Spanish explorers by the Aztec people, and the explorers brought them back to Spain, where they grew in monastery gardens.ย  โœจ We love the healing properties and the bright sunny appearance of marigolds so much that they are in many of our tea blends. To identify if a tea blend contains marigold, just look for the bright yellow petals that...

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EMPLOYEE FEATURE ๐ŸŒฟ - JULY 2021

๐Ÿ’ซ SHINING THE SPOTLIGHT Rachel's Favoritesย + Tips and Tricks ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒฟ This month we are shining the spotlight on Rachel, the store manager of our Albuquerque location. We chose Rachel as our employee feature for the month of July because her secret super power is building community and nourishing human connection - which is our intention this month! In the two years Rachel has been a part of the OBTC fam, she has seen both the store and her team grow in amazing ways. Watching how her team's hard work and creativity pays off and builds our business is her favorite part of working with us. Rachel's leadership and organization has brought her team together and this has created a friendly,...

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ICE COLD SWEET TEA ๐Ÿ‹ ๐ŸŒฟ

Summerville Sweet Tea the best glass of sweet tea is always the one you drink on the porch A History of Sweet Tea & Porch Sittin' In the late 1700's, the tea plant, Camellia sinensis, traveled all the way from China and ended up being successfully cultivated in South Carolina, which also became the birthplace of sweet tea a few years later.ย  Porches and sweet tea = a match made in heaven. Sweet tea was born in Summerville, South Carolina, in the late 1800's, around the same time when the concept of porches emerged in an effort to keep homes cool during the hot summer heat. Coincidentally, it turns out that sipping a sweetened iced tea while rocking on a...

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