From Living Soil to Award-Winning Tea

The ground is spongey beneath your feet at Wild Orchard Tea. Decades of cover crops, wild animals, composted weeds, and no killing off microbes has led to a thriving web of life. The earth nourishes the regenerative tea forest and just the sky provides irrigation from rainfall.

Healthy soil means healthy healthy food, and that extends beyond farming produce or meat. It includes what we drink.

With tea being the most common drink after water, globally, we have an amazing opportunity to return to the old ways of growing tea through regenerative farming, to restore the land.

When Wild Orchard began in 1999, the ground was stony, acidic, and prone to erosion - used for cow pasture and neglected. But over time, it's been transformed by the very act of regenerative tea farming. Layer upon layer of mulch has returned to the soil each year through cover cropping and composting.

Birds sing. Deer wander through. Waterfowl run in the underbrush. Bugs, fungi, and microbes feast.

When all live forms are thriving, it's a sign that the farming ecosystem is working.

But what about the taste? We drink tea for togetherness, slowing down, or a bit of caffeine to get us through the afternoon.

We believe the flavour is superior - delicate, earthy, and bright. But it's their 25+ tea awards from The Leafies to The Golden Leaf Awards that gives them true "tea cred" in the global tea community.

It's not just the land that benefits from regenerative farming. It's also the local community.

Farmers at Wild Orchard are happy. With good wages, healthy working conditions, and a team that is dedicated to the craft, it's meaningful and fulfilling work. 

Wild Orchard has stopped erosion in its tracks, transformed the soil from acidic to alkaline, welcomed back in the local flora and fauna, and developed farm worker fairness.

We hope you can taste their passion in every sip.