Nan White

A message from a swiss linguist living in Nan telling our founder Kenneth he knew of plenty of tea in the forests led us here, to the easternmost region of Northern Thailand on the border to Laos. To see for ourselves what the situation might be like we hopped in the car and went on the 6 hour drive off to a remote mountain, finding loads of tea but no tea production. The only local use for these plants has been and still is to make the fermented tea for eating, hmiang. The story is similar to the rest of Northern Thailand and further confirms that hmiang is the original tea culture of the country. To make sure that future generations can continue working with tea in sustainable ways we are starting a small project to initially produce white tea in the area as we strengthen our relationship.