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AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 6 years, 7 months ago
Unfortunately, draft and account problems persist, and I didn’t really have the willpower to completely retype this post in Word knowing that I would have to then reformat it once I pasted it into wordpress… S […]
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AJ's profile was updated 6 years, 9 months ago
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AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 7 years, 5 months ago
Vancouver Tea Festival 2017
Last year we had a pretty chilly winter, and it’s starting to look like this year will be going much the same way. Day One I thought I’d dressed adequately for Continue reading
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AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 7 years, 5 months ago
Book: The Spirit of Tea
Fear not, a post on Mohammad Mirza is also in the works. I ended up stumbling on a great source in English, so now it’s getting a bit long and needs some Continue reading
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AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 8 years ago
Book: Homegrown Tea
I had an ulterior (well, not that ulterior) motive in picking up this book, and it was mostly just to read the very first section on growing camellia sinensis. Continue reading
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AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 8 years ago
So it’s been a long term, and I’m only two chapters into Harvesting Mountains.
Last I checked, anyway.
My life has been consumed almost entirely be geology, and I haven’t done anything tea-related since […]
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AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 8 years, 3 months ago
Book: Tea Production, Land Use Politics, and Ethnic Minorities
I’m free! That is, I’ve finished another harrowing term. I mistakenly thought I would have more free time, and went a little overboard at the library. At least Continue reading
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AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 8 years, 5 months ago
Vancouver Tea Festival (2016)
Two things happened yesterday. The Vancouver Tea Festival ensued, and Tony Gebeley published his book. This is a book I’ve (read: most people) been spying on Continue reading
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AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 8 years, 10 months ago
Book: Tea Manufacture, by C.R. Harler
Whereas I called Tea Processing the spiritual sequel to Harler’s Tea Growing (as it draws from many different resources, but does take largely after Harler’s ha Continue reading
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AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 9 years, 4 months ago
I thought I’d break my experiences at the VTF down into more than one post; I realize I have a tendency to ramble, and the least I can do is break up the flow.
The second annual VTF wasn’t huge. I’ve been to […]
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AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 10 years, 10 months ago
No Second Annual Vancouver Tea Festival
I’ve got half a post typed up in another window, and am penning another post on paper as I read the 1960’s handbook, “Tea Growing” by C.R. Harler. But instead Continue reading
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AJ wrote a new post on the site Tea Stacks 13 years, 6 months ago
It began (as it usually does) on Google; this isn’t the first time I’ve typed ‘ “John Murchie”+tea ‘ into the Google search-engine. I’ve done it a few times now, but my search usually ends with very little […]