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  • The Virtues of Green Tea

    “Tea comforts the spirit, banishes passivity, lightens the body and adds sparkle to the eyes.” Shen Nong, Medicinal Herbs. Ever since Shen Nong discovered the stimulating and detoxifying properties of tea over 4,000 years ago, people have been interested in its health and wellbeing properties. It was these properties that first made tea popular as […]

    8 June 2016
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  • Sorry But Your Herd Is Going To Need This New Elephant!

    As The Sun Sets On The African Savannah Nothing quite beats a setting sun to really highlight the majesty of Africa’s stunning wildlife. With herds of elephant grazing across the plains and a yellow billed stork silhouetted in the sky our new Kenyan Sunset Elephant Caddy really is a work of art! Kenyan Sunset is […]

    6 June 2016
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  • Twilight Gems, our newest Elephant Caddy

    The twinkling of stars on a clear African sky has inspired our new and strictly Limited Edition Elephant caddy. With a myriad of animals shown in this twilight story the only question is whether you can spot them all. Containing our beautiful Earl Grey with Blue Flowers loose leaf teabags this new Elephant gift caddy […]

    27 May 2016
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  • Kenyan Earth

    No Time For Tea?

    The world appears to spin at an ever increasing pace these days, with a frenetic stream of beeps, chirps and vibrations emitting from mobile phones and computers all clamouring for our attention. Time is precious and the tradition of stopping for an afternoon cup of tea is no longer part of normal life, a cuppa […]

    15 April 2016
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  • Tea plucking on Kaimosi

    Plucking Tea, An Art Form

    Plucking Tea is an art form and crucial to the quality of the final product. Fineness, understanding and desire to produce only the finest cup of tea is needed. No one pretends that it’s not hard work, but generations of families have and continue to work on our farms, plucking our fine teas with great […]

    16 March 2016
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  • Half Marathon

    First Lady’s Half Marathon In Support of ‘Beyond Zero’

    The Williamson Tea team in Kenya proudly took part in the recent First Lady’s Half Marathon in support of the ‘Beyond Zero’ campaign, which is part of an initiative to promote the control of HIV and new born child health in Kenya, as well as encourage healthy lifestyles. The costs of all the registrations were […]

    11 March 2016
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  • Three Mini Elephant Tea Caddies

    ‘Tea for Elephants’ with the release of our New Mini Orphan Elephant Caddies

    Inspired by the Orphans of the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. This Mothers Day spare a thought for those without mothers. As part of the Williamson Tea Foundation’s partnership with the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (DSWT) we are excited to announce the launch of three new Mini Elephant caddies inspired by the DSWT’s orphans. Quite possibly […]

    25 February 2016
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  • Mini Matcha Elephant Caddy

    A touch of the Orient with our new Purple Matcha

    A touch of the Orient with our new Purple Matcha Hand picked purple tea leaves are stone ground into a delicate powder, then whisked to make a smooth liquor with an abundance of antioxidants. Matcha was introduced by Buddhist monks at the beginning of the first millennium and has been part of Japanese culture ever […]

    12 February 2016
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  • Special Offers on Teas from Tinderet, “the place of lightning”

    With the damp and darkness of January already behind us and quite possibly all the good intentions of healthy lifestyles and gym memberships faded since the New Year we felt we should start the journey around our four farms with Tinderet, home of our Green Teas and hopefully remind everyone that the easiest way to […]

    5 February 2016
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  • A Green New Year

    A Green New Year

    We’re only half way through January and at a point where most people’s New Year Resolutions are still in operation and some good intentions remain. Over the next few days and weeks, though, we would normally expect to see gym memberships becoming steadily more redundant and the odd desert creeping back into the diet. However, […]

    15 January 2016
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  • Earl Grey Green Tea Bags

    The launch of our Loose Teas and Loose Leaf Teabags

    We’re absolutely delighted to announce the long awaited launch of our new Loose Teas and Loose Leaf Teabag ranges! We said they’d be here in December and we’re sure you were beginning to wonder what had happened. Well with delay after delay (we won’t bore you with the details) we have finally made it and […]

    24 December 2015
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  • Sunshine through the clouds at Changoi

    The Future of Our Planet, Rather a Hot Topic!

    It’s fantastic to see that the UN Climate Change meeting has been considered a success with the ambitious aim to cap global warming at just two degrees agreed. Africa is expected to be one of the worst effected areas by global warming, with five major changes forecast across the continent; Farming is expected to become […]

    14 December 2015
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