Oregon TruffleTryst Tea Experience
Oregon TruffleTryst Tea Experience
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If you have perused our news bits we post, you know that most tea plants that are transplanted into the ground have their roots eaten off by voles, or similar rodents, underground. We have given up on trying to minimize that problem as we won't use checmicals. So, we are attempting to build steel mesh lined beds in which to grow them. The first bed is almost complete and only needs a bit of mesh mending for the portions above ground that overlap (or, in one case, where I ripped the mesh with the tractor bucket). We embedded some compost when we refilled it, and will be adding additional forest duff to the top both before and after planting the tea seedlings.
2023 - 04
We did our first tiny harvest on June 8th of 2019. We only had about a pound of leaves to process but we made a white tea, a Moonlight white tea (wilted in the moonlight and morning dew, which was substantial), a raw puerh, and two black teas. Since then we have processed a few green, oolong, and black teas (and even an Old Paka!) as we pruned the young plants.
2022 - 07
Unfortunately, our directly sowed seeds from roughly three years ago did not do well. There are perhaps twenty or so plants out of the 800 to 1000 seeds sown. We had about one hundred and thirty, two-year-old tea plants in the in one area, several hundred up in areas cleared on the hillside above the house, over one thousand seedlings transplanted into plots in the field below the house, and about 600 transplanted into a back field. We have an additional several thousand seedlings that will be re-potted this year and, hopefully, transplanted out next spring. You can read more about our attemps and, unfortunately, our rodent problem in our news blog linked at the top of the page. The critters seem to really like the tea and they eat the entire roots off underground and out of sight.
2018 -03
Oregon Truffle Tryst Farm is working on establishing a tea crop. We will be producing our own variety of tea from our own locally grown and harvested tea plants. The diverse biota and aged forest soils in the Oregon Coast Range add their unique flavor and character to our tea, both young and aged. A unique micro-climate and pristine Coastal forest soils establish our unique terroir1 and, along with an attempt at 'old world' processing, it is certain to invoke a variety of surprisingly distinctive and pleasant flavors to be savored on any tea tasting occasion. Our processes will also include microbial fermentation. The best known variety of a similar type of tea is 'Pu-erh' tea originating from the Yunnan Province, whose century’s old traditional process may be roughly emulated for some of our Truffle Tryst tea production. Pu-erh tea is used for improving mental alertness and sharp thinking. It is also used for reducing high cholesterol2. Our tea leaves are (and hopefully, always will be) hand plucked. Right now we have few plants and they are still very young, which makes it relatively easy to hand pluck. We will attempt to forego modern automated processing for the sake of speed and profits. We would rather attempt to use old techniques such as withering in the sun, firing in a wok, hand rolling, scattering the leaves on mats to dry, manually sorting and picking clean, and possibly steaming and pressing into cakes (or into bamboo which is then heated over a fire). Pressed cakes would dry and age in one of our own cellars dug into the Coastal hillside for an indeterminate period of time depending on the tea's aging qualities.
Unfortunately, our directly sowed seeds from roughly three years ago did not do well. There are perhaps twenty or so plants out of the 800 to 1000 seeds sown. We had about one hundred and thirty, two-year-old tea plants in the in one area, several hundred up in areas cleared on the hillside above the house, over one thousand seedlings transplanted into plots in the field below the house, and about 600 transplanted into a back field. We have an additional several thousand seedlings that will be re-potted this year and, hopefully, transplanted out next spring. You can read more about our attemps and, unfortunately, our rodent problem in our news blog linked at the top of the page. The critters seem to really like the tea and they eat the entire roots off underground and out of sight.
We did our first tiny harvest on June 8th of 2019. We only had about a pound of leaves to process but we made a white tea, a Moonlight white tea (wilted in the moonlight and morning dew, which was substantial), a raw puerh, and two black teas. Since then we have processed a few green, oolong, and black teas (and even an Old Paka!) as we pruned the young plants.
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