It all began in India. Martin, one of the founders of Friends of Tea, was one day out and about in the Glenburn Tea Estate in the highlands of Darjeeling. Surrounded by sustainably cultivated tea plants in the mountain slopes of the Himalayas, he came up with an idea: how about bringing the tea directly from the tea gardens to the end consumer? After all, the tea trade is characterized by long retail chains through and through. From the tea garden to the end consumer, a tea often passes through up to 15 different middlemen. The prices that tea traders in Germany charge for their tea are not justified by the production costs of the countries of origin and are unjustifiably high. Due to the many middlemen, too often horrendous prices are demanded for these teas in Germany despite their quality. To change this is our mission! We talk to the people who produce the tea, not to the wholesale trade. This enables us to offer excellent quality at an ingenious price. We purchase our teas directly from the local tea gardens. Unnecessary trade channels are saved and we can therefore offer an unbeatable price-performance ratio. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)