Mulberry Tea & Farm in Laos
Tea has become one of my favorite drink lately. My recent favorite is “pomegranate white tea”. It has just the right tartness and much lighter tasting then green tea.
Another tea that I’ve heard about most recently is mulberry leaves tea from Laos. I haven’t tried it yet and it really doesn’t sound too appealing to me. Mulberry fruit maybe? Some Lao ladies are trying to sell them at temple bazaars and would go on and on about the health benefits of mulberry tea leaves.
I think it goes for about $5-7 for a small tea box. Has anyone tried them yet or heard if any of the claims are true? I tried to do some of my own readings on the net. Which put me on somewhat of a tangent, but still concerning mulberry tea. In Vangviang (Laos), there is an organic mulberry farm which actually grows and sell the mulberry tea leaves amongst other things. They list mulberry wine and silk as some of their specialties.
They also put back some of their profits to the locals and have built a community center, purchased a school bus for the kids, and much more. I’ve sent them an email a while back and never got a response yet. Wonder if they are still in operation or internet connection is not very reliable out there.
But anyway, if they are still doing business, it would be an interesting place for travelers to check out. I especially like to visit the silk worm production house.
Vangviang Organic Farm, Laos
The company have very similar concept to Jai Coffee that I wrote about, which they also give back $1 to the community for every coffee that you purchase, the distributor is in CA.
I also like green tea, I like the jasmine green tea best. I didn't realize that it was just green tea, and they dried the jasmine flower and put it in there until one day I saw some white flower. I think I'd like the pomegranate white tea, something for me to look into.
I visited their web page, very interesting, I didn't realize that the mulberry tree that you're talking about is what we called Tunh Monh, which they used Monh leaves to feed the silk worm, very resourceful that he'd also use the leaves to make tea.
I stayed on this farm and worked on the community hall in late 2004.Mr T and his friends and volunteers do a great job and have since built a library as well.
The Mulberry Leaf tea tastes excellent and it is definately well worth purchasing.If you get a chance to taste or buy do!! The mulberry milk shakes are also to die for delicious.
We also taught english in the community hall at night and it was a fantastic experience.The childern are wonderful and very very willing to learn. From 7 months travelling in sth east Asia this experience was one of the best and most rewarding
Domhnall wrote:
"The childern are wonderful and very very willing to learn. From 7
months travelling in sth east Asia this experience was one of the best
and most rewarding. "
It's so nice to hear that the children are so willing to learn. And
now they have a library too. Thanks for the update. I think this
place has a good business model that works well within the community.
If I am ever in Laos, I will stop by for a visit.
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