Storehouse Tea: 2012

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Storehouse Teas now featured at Party in a Cup and Petals & Pearls Boutique in Aurora, Ohio!

Housed at Aurora’s Historic 1815 House inside Petals & Pearls Boutique, Party in a Cup provides private tea parties by appointment. My friend, Stephanie Castellano is owner of Party in a Cup in Aurora and has a passion for bringing people together to enjoy delicious finger sandwiches, homemade scones, mini-cakes, tarts, cookies and a variety of specialty teas. Host your bridal shower, baby shower or birthday party with a unique theme. Choose the enchanting and whimsical indoor garden room, walled with windows overlooking the lovely city center area or in the elegant living room while chatting with friends. The Petals & Pearls Boutique offers a variety of unique, tasteful and fun home décor, from antiques to fashion accessories, jewelry, hand dipped truffles, organic baby clothes, and they proudly serve and sell Storehouse Teas! Storehouse Teas are hand crafted , small batch blended, Certified Organic and Fair Trade loose leaf tea. They're creative, delicious, fresh healthful blends to make your event even more special.

Party in a Cup, Petals & Pearls Boutique

170 S. Chillicothe, Rd. Aurora, Ohio 44202

Hours: Tues. - Sat., 11:00am - 5:00pm

330-954-1815

Mark your calendar and stop by for our fun and

informational tea tasting events, all ages are welcome

and its free!

August 18, 2-4pm

Summer time iced tea, tasting demo and recipes.

September 15, 2-4pm

White Teas, where they come from how they are processed,

why they are the healthiest of all the tea categories, tea tasting.

October 13, 2-4pm

Yerba Mate and Guayusa, teas from South America, healthy antioxidants,

great stimulants for brain, weight loss, and energy, tea tasting.

November 10, 11am-1:00pm

Autumn and dessert teas, getting tea time ready for your entertaining,

tea tasting.

December 15, 11am - 1:00pm

Holiday Open House with Holiday teas and treats, tea tasting.

Paula in tea production mode at her certified kitchen

Pouring Jasmine Blossoms
into our Citron Jasmine Green Tea
and Rooibo.This tea is one of our
top sellers... wonderful citrus flavor,
soothing, with low caffeine,
great iced or hot.

Saturday, June 2, 2012

Come visit Storehouse Tea at Two Amazing Farmers Markets!

Countryside Farmers' Market at Howe Meadow
Saturday's 9:00 A.M. to Noon. May 12 - October 27, 20124040 Riverview Road, Peninsula

Storehouse Tea will be there Saturday, May 26 and every other week there after.

Crocker Park Market
Saturday's 9:00 A.M. to 1:00pm. April 14 – December 22, 2012

NEW Location
Conveniently located at Crocker Park, at Union Street and Crocker Road in front of Regal Cinemas Movie Theater.

Storehouse Tea will be there Saturday, June 2 and every other week there after.

COSE adds Storehouse Tea to its Wellness Program

An Organic Tea Program

To Enhance Your Way of Working

COSE has selected Storehouse Tea as a resource for their Wellness Grant Program.

www.cose.org

Tea is natures remedy, known to be the most effective beverage for cancer prevention, heart disease as well as promoting health throughout the body. Start drinking tea at work!!

Ask us about our Corporate Tea Wellness Plan… we'd love to customize a program for you!

Storehouse Tea Company, LLC has been recognized as an “emerging business to watch” by business organizations for being a finalist for COSE's Shark Tank Competition and Bad Girl Ventures Competition. Being a finalist in these competitions has exposed us to mentors, partners and capital resources for our expansion. Thank You COSE! Thank You Bad Girls!

Friday, May 18, 2012

Thousands of Americans have begun affirming a new direction for the economy. It’s called Slow Money.

There is an emerging trend for small businesses because of the difficulty in getting loans from the banks so peer to peer, investment club or “crowd funding” organizations have come in to fill the gap. One such organization that was recently formed to support the Slow Food Movement nationally represents this trend, the Cleveland chapter of SLOW MONEY

(see www.slowmoney.org for more info). “We’ve found kindred spirits there that want to support the farmers and producers of organic, sustainable foods”, Storehouse Tea has gotten such a nice reception from the Slow Money leaders and members and believe so much in what they are doing we have become members ourselves.”

Storehouse Tea gives an enormous thank you to

SLOW MONEY OHIO!

Filippo Ravalico, Slow Money Ohio Coordinator has given Storehouse Tea their First Micro Loan. Thank you to some loyal investors from Columbus and Cincinnati, we can’t wait to make you proud!

www.slowmoneyohio.org

A couple of Slow Money Principles:

We must learn to invest as if food, farms and fertility mattered. We must connect investors to the places where they live, creating vital relationships and new sources of capital for small food enterprises.

Let us celebrate the new generation of entrepreneurs, consumers and investors who are showing the way from Making A Killing to Making a Living.

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Our teas are now available in Whole Foods and Earth Fares Stores in Ohio!

Paula conducting a demo at the Whole Foods, Warrensville Center Rd. / Cedar Rd., University Heights, Ohio. You call also find Storehouse Tea at 271 & Chagrin Whole Foods and at Whole Foods in Dublin, Ohio in Columbus off Dublin-Granville Rd.

Earth Fare Markets are a fast growing chain of healthy supermarkets, imagine a slightly smaller version of Whole Foods, that has embraced Storehouse Tea. You can find selections of our teas in Northeast Ohio at their West Side Cleveland store at 3450 Westgate, Fairview Park and in Akron off Rt. 18 Montrose at 3737 West Market Street, Fairlawn. Earth Fare just opened up a new store in the north Columbus area off Polaris Parkway across from the Polaris Mall, 1440 Gemini Place and in Dayton off Rt. 48 101 E. Alex Bell Road, Centerville.

Come on out and support us by purchasing your teas at our retail locations and let them know how much you like our products and ask them to carry your favorite Storehouse Tea selection. The more we can sell through the stores the more selections they’ll carry and you can have the convenience of picking up your favorite Storehouse Teas from your local grocery store. We will be tweeting the locations of our tea demos in the stores so you can come out and visit us and bring your friends to meet us too.

Of course if you don’t live near one of our retail locations or you want to send them as a gift you can always purchase from the full line of organic and Fair Trade artisan loose leaf teas, infuser tea ware and tea accessories from our website at www.storehousetea.com . We are in the planning stages of reevaluating our web site. Please let us know what you like or don’t like about our site and what you’d like our site to do. We welcome your opinion.

About Storehouse Tea

Dan and I are part of the 76 million baby boomers who want to stay healthy and live longer. Seven years ago, we took that old coffee maker off the counter and replaced it with a beautiful functional infuser teapot. At first we both missed the caffeine addiction buzz, but we didn’t miss the jittery, anxious feeling we got when we drank it and the headaches and crabbiness if we didn’t. My husband, Dan, feels his health and overall wellbeing has increased and he has more continuous energy. I believe coffee caused me repeated kidney stones, headaches, bloating and fibroids. Thank God I have none of that in my life anymore!

Dan and I have left our coffee addiction behind and have fully embraced tea drinking as a lifestyle choice, and what a difference it has made in our lives, we are blessed! So with this new passion we’ve decided to share our knowledge and enthusiasm for high quality Certified Organic and Fair Trade loose-leaf teas, making them available to as many people as possible by turning our passion into a business, Storehouse Tea Company.

The art of drinking tea has been around for 5,000 years. It’s amazing to us that there are still a lot of people who have never experienced drinking loose leaf tea. Most of the world drinks whole leaf tea, unfortunately we Americans invented the tea bag and since then we have been missing out of about 300% of all the great health benefits, flavor and freshness that whole leaf teas offer us. So with that being said all of our teas are sold loose, which means they are not in tea bags. We purchase the most current crop from that picking season, and purchase as much Fair Trade tea and ingredients as we can. Most of what America drinks is produced by big industry making it just another bland, dissipated, expired, useless cup of nothing! The teas we’re passionate about offering you are the best you’ll ever taste, small batch blending using fresh organic ingredients which are the healthiest for you! Our customers won’t go back to tea bags again!! We love our teas, and drink them every day, so do our three teenagers, we would not give you something that we don’t absolutely believe in, trust and love. Here is what you won’t find in Storehouse Organic Teas …no carbohydrates, no calories, no fats, no sugars, no artificial colorings, no preservatives, no pesticides.

We offer a beautiful selection of Organic loose leaf teas and beautiful, practical and functional infuser tea ware. Check out our website storehousetea.com and go under "All about Tea" tab to "Tea and Health" to find amazing studies that point to all the great properties that fresh loose leaf teas contain.

Our vision for Storehouse Tea Company is to be ethical and socially conscious as well. So providing Certified Organic tea was only the beginning. We feel our customers want to be sure that people in underdeveloped countries are being paid a reasonable price for their teas. Fair Trade Certification empowers farmers and farm workers to lift themselves out of poverty by investing in their farms and communities, protecting the environment, and developing the business skills necessary to compete in the global marketplace. Our suppliers purchase from Fair Trade producer groups as directly as possible, guaranteeing to pay above market prices, eliminating unnecessary middlemen and empowering farmers to develop the business capacity necessary to compete in the global marketplace. Harmful agrochemicals and GMOs are strictly prohibited in favor of environmentally sustainable farming methods that protect farmers’ health and preserve valuable ecosystems for future generations. We try to purchase as much Fair Trade tea as possible, so that we can give back to the world. We also feel connected to the Farms that have so diligently provided this amazing tea for us. We know it has not been sitting in some warehouse for years, we know exactly where it comes from, how it was grown and we know it was from the spring or fall crop that year. Fresh is the best!