OTTF | Overview of Our Tea Experience

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.

Have a great day!

Bob & Stephanie.

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1.) For our use of the word terroir we have replaced “wine” with “tea” in this succinct explanation: At every tea tasting, especially those comparing "old world" tea to "new world" teas, the inevitable question of terroir arises. terroir is a French term that literally translated means: earth, or soil. However, there is no such thing as a literal translation of anything French. In a larger context, tea tasters try to define terroir as the specificity of place, which has come to include not only the soil in a region, but also the climate, the weather, the aspect of the tea plants and anything else that can possibly differentiate one piece of land from another. (http://www.musingsonthevine.com/tips_ter1.shtml, 08/12/2016)

2.) Uses of Pu-erh tea taken from the WebMD website: https://www.webmd.com/vitamins-supplements/ingredientmono-1169-pu-erh%20tea.aspx?activeingredientid=1169&activeingredientname=pu-erh%20tea

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Find out about: America's (now the World's) Favorite Poison By Far!

“In order to save glyphosate, the Monsanto corporation has undertaken an effort to destroy the United Nations’ cancer agency by any means possible.”[10]

... " just four companies — Bayer, Corteva (formerly DowDuPont), BASF and Syngenta/ChemChina — controlled 75 percent of plant breeding research, 60 percent of the commercial seed market, and 76 percent of global agrichemical sales in 2019."[78]

Just gotta' LOVE glyphosate, right?????

Yes, the second link is old news, but not forgotten and more importantly, as the first link shows, not remedied:

Monsanto / Bayer's Roundup Triggers Over 40 Plant Diseases and Endangers Human and Animal Health. Protect yourself and those you care about!

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/argentinasRoundupHumanTragedy.php

http://www.NaturalNews.com/031138_Monsanto_Roundup.html

[10] Foucart, S. & Horel, S. (2019, April 7). Monsanto Papers. European Press Prize. https://www.europeanpressprize.com/article/monsanto-papers/

[78] ETC Group. (2019, April 06). New report: Putting the cartel before the horse…and farm, seeds, soil, peasants. https://www.etcgroup.org/content/new-report-putting-cartel-horse%E2%80%A6and-farm-seeds-soil-peasants

Just Say No To GMO by Michael Adams - Video
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Just Say No To GMO by Michael Adams - Music
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Song by Mike Adams, with spoken lines from Jeffrey Smith

I’m lookin at the food that’s in the grocery store
They say it’s safe, everybody eat more.
On second thought, I don’t really know if it’s made with those GMOs

So I’m lookin for the non-GMO label ‘fore I bring it home and put it on my table
I wanna know it’s verified so I don’t
Harm myself with genetically modified

Uh-Oh
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All the poison they grow
The corporate profits they show from those GMO OH

Those Frankenseeds that they sow
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It’s time we told ‘em to go, say GMO NO!

I don’t want eat poison, I don’t want gene mutations at my dinner reservations
it’s a food abomination what they doin’ to this fast food nation
They take artificial gene combinations
inject them in seed variations
so they can grow their Frankenfood imitations
while the side effects cause medical patients

Keep their profits alive while they
spraying all the food with name brand herbicides
and all the while they’re spreadin’ their lies
Monsanto (Bayer now!) destroyin’ farmers lives
and the FDA keeps it all going
saying it’s safe even though they all know it’s just
poison stealing away your life, and that’s what you eat with genetically modified.

GMO safety huh that’s a corporate myth
if you don’t believe me listen to Jeffery Smith
He’s the man with plan gonna do what he can
To help us all get those GMOs banned
But we need you to lend a hand
take a stand against this food scam
It’s a mission for the health condition worldwide
We don’t wanna live genetically modified

Don’t eat food unless you know what’s in it
Don’t believe the propaganda cuz the press will spin it
Affects everybody, we all up in it
Stand up to Monsanto (Bayer now!), tell ‘em oh no you didn’t

Reject Frankenfoods in the store
demand honest labels so we can be informed
We have a natural right to know
What we buyin’ Just say no to GMO

Before our farms start dyin’
Just say no to GMO

Those corporate crooks are lyin’
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This time we’re not complyin’
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We’re just not buyin’ it
Just say no to GMO

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