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It’s been about six months since Mana launch its expansion into the United States. We’ve launched a website selling our own teas- and completely re-done it. After a lot of effort, we managed to place our products on Amazon. We participated in the World Tea Expo and BioFach India Expo. We have expanded our social welfare team, and hired a new teacher for our partner tea estate’s schools. As we take Mana to the next level, I have thought often about far we have come. I started Mana five years ago as a vehicle to enable self-sufficiency in indigenous farming...

Did you know that black and green tea both come from the SAME plant? Yes, that’s right! We pluck the leaves used for making both black and green teas from the same plant, camellia sinensis. YET each beverage differs in taste, character, colour and health benefits. Here’s just a few of the ways black and green tea differ. Properties Black Tea Green Tea Post manufacture leaf colour Dark brown / black Green Infusion colour Dark reddish-orange Light green / Lemon-green Taste (plain liquor) Malty, slightly astringent Vegetal, light fruity, with sweet after taste Brewing Temperatures Needs boiling water with steep...

At Mana Organics, we’ve been experimenting with a lot of different channels for our online retail. We sell Mana on our website (check out our store), on Amazon, on our Facebook page, and on Facebook messenger. While it makes us happy to meet our customers in a manner most convenient to them (I mean, what’s more convenient than texting us a question about composting and buying tea with one tap of your phone?), this diversity of channels creates one major issue: managing reviews. Mana Organics tea has excellent reviews scattered all over the internet. One could take on a Pokemon-esque...

The staff has moved all the furniture in both our home and office to ensure that they evict every speck of dust. Our friends have started the trash talk each other on their poker skills. We’ve started packing the gifts. And every day more sweets from relatives and friends arrive in the kitchen. It’s Diwali time! Diwali, “the festival of lights,” is India’s most widely celebrated festival. Different parts of India celebrate in different ways. Some pray to Ganesh, some celebrate the homecoming of Lord Ram, some worship Goddess Kali, others worship Goddess Laxmi.   Wherever you go, the basic...