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There are quite a few methods for making iced tea, and selecting the right method really depends on the tea leaves or herbs you are using to make the infusion...

As much as we’d like it to be true, tea didn’t start growing in our backyard in Toronto—we had to get it here somehow! Ok, so we didn’t really pay attention in seventh-grade geography, but when there’s tea involved, we’re interested. Sit back with a cup of green and read a little history with us….

Mint: not only something to brush your teeth with or adorn the tea tables of old ladies playing bridge. This delicious Old World herb has a myriad of uses in cuisine, herbology and medicine, and popular mythology.

It is a rare and special tea that comes from land tradtionally associated with coffee. Los Andes is just such a tea, grown on a Guatemalan nature reserve that rests in the shadows of the volcano of Atitlán. The nature reserve is home to abundant plants and wildlife, including Guatemala's national bird, the Resplendent Quetzal.

Making a concentrated brew allows you to use tea for so many other purposes besides a hot cuppa.

Mint tea is cooling and warming. It’s also lively yet soothing.

Tea does indeed contain caffeine, however the story doesn't just end there.

Learn more about rolled oats and how to use them.