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Chatting with dear dear Erica Moore :) Eteaket founder and supporter of well being

Tea, Mud and Hope - March 23, 2023 13:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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 h...

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The inaugural Prague Tea Fest, lets chat with its wonderful creator Agha :)

Tea, Mud and Hope - February 21, 2023 13:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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 peopl...

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The biochemistry of tea with the wonderful Professor Elisabetta Damiani

Tea, Mud and Hope - November 12, 2022 11:31 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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 c...

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Tea education for positive change, a chat with my wonderful tea friend Sooz :)

Tea, Mud and Hope - June 03, 2021 12:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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...

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Chatting tea with the lovely Tim D'Offay :)

Tea, Mud and Hope - May 16, 2021 08:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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 ...

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The Tale of Tea with the wonderful George van Driem

Tea, Mud and Hope - April 17, 2021 12:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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 a...

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The talented Shiloh Gastello shows us how to slow down with tea :)

Tea, Mud and Hope - April 11, 2021 15:42 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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 dev...

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The wonderful Lydia Gautier shares her thoughts on professional tea sourcing and gives us a beautiful insight into her work :)

Tea, Mud and Hope - February 02, 2021 18:28 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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 fascinati...

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Volunteering in tea with the wonderful Mona Jhunjhnuwala :)

Tea, Mud and Hope - January 21, 2021 17:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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 b...

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People, spaces and climate with the wonderful Tea Explorer Jeff Fuchs :)

Tea, Mud and Hope - December 08, 2020 15:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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 p...

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Tea history with the lovely Wenzhuo Liu

Tea, Mud and Hope - November 26, 2020 16:39 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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 ...

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Tea growing in Canada - The wonderful Victor from Westholme shares his tea growing and tea making story with us :)

Tea, Mud and Hope - October 06, 2020 12:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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...

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Taiwanese Teas with the lovely Andy Kincart :)

Tea, Mud and Hope - July 30, 2020 13:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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 Ta...

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Tea chat with Martin also called Mr Eighty Degrees :)

Tea, Mud and Hope - May 15, 2020 09:43 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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 l...

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Tea chat during lockdown with the wonderful Alex Simpson

Tea, Mud and Hope - April 23, 2020 15:57 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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 :)

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Tea Growing in the face of climate change

Tea, Mud and Hope - March 31, 2020 12:01 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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 wa...

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Community tea growing in the Ukraine with special guest Maksym Malyhin

Tea, Mud and Hope - March 16, 2020 15:18 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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...

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Tea growing across Europe with special guest Denis Mazerolle

Tea, Mud and Hope - February 21, 2020 14:05 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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...

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Drinking fine tea in Paris

Tea, Mud and Hope - January 27, 2020 23:50 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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.

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Tea travel with Marjolein Raijmakers

Tea, Mud and Hope - December 08, 2019 08:31 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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 : )


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