At 70 year-old, Granny Tang and her husband Long are still living on their vegetable garden and old tea fields.
This land has belonged to their family even before modern China existed. Also the tea bushes. Outlived Granny Tang herself, planted by her mother’s generation, these fields hold four tea varieties – including rare trees you won’t find in commercial farms anymore.
Tang knows when to pick each leaf, how big it should be, or what flavor profile it’ll create. Just look at her hands. It tells her story– weathered from decades of harvesting, dotted with calluses and “tea tattoos” from stubborn branches.
After gathering the final pre-Qingming Festival harvest (those tender spring leaves prized by tea nerds), Tang came back home and finally got a chance to treat herself —— enjoy hand-made pan-fired tea by herself.
Leaves in your cup picked by Tang, her husband Long, their daughter, and families. Tang picked 1KG fresh leaves each day, and it could turn to only around 150g dry leaves in your bag.
So, drink your flowinversetea slowly. It's the flavor of spring of Enshi, also of the Tang's life.
We buy from her at $40 per KG fresh leaves, 48% percent higher than the market. I