{"id":11828,"date":"2020-01-23T09:52:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T14:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/?p=11828"},"modified":"2023-09-26T14:33:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T18:33:08","slug":"introducing-wild-grown-rooibos-from-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/introducing-wild-grown-rooibos-from-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Wild Grown Rooibos from South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time:<\/b> <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>\n

We love a good story, and the story of our newest rooibos tea, Wild Grown Rooibos<\/u><\/strong><\/a>, is just as sweet as the tea itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grown near Wupperthal, South Africa at the\nbase of the Cederberg Mountains, the rooibos is foraged by Izak, a sheep herder\nand farmer who earns his living through a small vegetable garden he works and\nhis sheep. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every morning, Izak takes his heard out to\ngraze in the foothills of the mountains until the late afternoon. At night, he\ncarves wood ornaments or collects the root vegetables that grow in his garden. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For centuries, rooibos was harvested by a\ntribe of South Africa bushman who foraged the herb in the Cederberg region.\nAfter almost becoming extinct, Rooibos was first commercially planted in the\nearly 1900s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, over a century later, South African\ntea producer, Johan is going back to the tea\u2019s roots. By partnering with small\nscale farmers like Izak, who both discover and tend to the wild plant. By\nworking closely with farmers in these rural area\u2019s Johan can produce a spectacular\ntasting tea that positively impacts both the lives of rural farmers and the\nenvironment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We call this blend of rooibos \u201cwild grown\u201d\nbecause we mean it. This tea is grown in its natural habitat, free of\nenvironmental manipulation such as the installation of irrigation systems or\nthe use of pesticides or fertilizers. This is how it’s meant to grow; with a\nlow environmental impact and a distinct flavour thanks to the region\u2019s terroir.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When brewed, the tea is a deep orange\ncolour and has a sweet wild honey flavour with a rich nuttiness a light mineral\nearthy note. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When it comes time to harvest the tea,\nIzak leaves the herding to his wife and children and forging the wild rooibos\nhimself and taking the harvest by donkey the nearest road where he meets Johan,\nwho takes the tea to a facility where it\u2019s processed. In addition to\nsupplementing the farmer\u2019s livelihood, Johan also helps them with certification\nand even medical care, often flying medicine to remote areas. \n\nThere are only a few\nfertile pockets where rooibos grows wild, so we were thrilled to be able to\nshare this wild-grown rooibos with you!\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time:<\/b> <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>We love a good story, and the story of our newest rooibos tea, Wild Grown Rooibos, is just as sweet as the tea itself. Grown near Wupperthal, South Africa at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":14303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11831,"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11828\/revisions\/11831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.davidstea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}