Tea – The Benefits of Getting the Tea Directly to You

Posted by Guest Author on December 2nd, 2009 filed in Reader Articles

If you drink tea and have a garden, composting used tea leaves is an easy way to promote sustainability, even if you do not compost any other material. Tea leaves are rich in nutrients and loose tea makes an outstanding mulch which can be applied directly to the soil in your garden. The tea can be collected in a container and placed directly on your garden daily or every few days. Composting tea leaves turns a waste product into a valuable resource, which has two main benefits:

• Reducing waste
• Enriching your soil for free and without using any synthetic fertilizers

What most of the consumers do not know is that when you purchase your tea from the supermarkets what you are purchasing is a tea product which in many cases has stayed in the shelves for weeks and months and when you open the tea container all you get is that relic of what was a genuine tea product. All you need to do then is to eliminate the middle men and get your tea straight from the source.

Even with fully biodegradable teabags, one must exercise caution. Many tea companies claim that their teabags are biodegradable and compostable, but say nothing about the amount of time required for decomposition. Some teabags, especially the higher-quality ones marketed as "tea sachets", are made of silk, which is natural but decomposes slowly. Even paper takes longer to decompose than most kitchen waste. Whereas the leaves inside a teabag are suitable for direct application to a garden, depending on conditions, the bag itself may take a year or more to fully decompose--much longer than most fruit and vegetable compost.

The best place to start locating the source of your freshly ground tea is the internet. You can search for your favorite blend over the internet and be sure that it is exactly what you want If you have identified the blend then make quick searches over the internet to identify the nearest roasters and distributors and then you are in track to make visits or get in touch with the roaster and get your tea from them. Now you may think you will pay a fortune to the get the best freshly ground tea, what you do not know is that you can actually save a lot of your money by getting the best tea direct from the source.

The supermarket prices that you are used are way above the cost of getting it straight from the source. Some tea blends are exotic and will come from lands afar. In that case you then have to make arrangements to see to it that the tea will be delivered to you. Either way the bottom line is that you need to get your tea directly from your source and save money while ensuring that you get your tea freshly ground and tasty

Resource Author Francisco Rodriguez Higueras
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