About Flowinverse Tea

I'm a tea farmer in Enshi. I grow the tea, I make it, and I send it to you myself.

Hi, I'm June. I grow and make tea at Flowit Garden, up in the mountains of Wildbrook Village in Enshi, Hubei. That's central China, deep tea country. Flowinversetea is what I send out from this garden, straight to the people who actually drink it, with no middleman in between.

People ask what the name means. In the usual tea trade, the money flows away from the mountain. The farmers who grow the leaf and make the tea never get their name on anything, and their tea ends up sold under some big brand. That's the last you hear of them. I wanted to flip that around. So on our tins, the person who grew your tea is right there on the label, and the story you read is the real one.

There's another side to the name too. Flow is also what I hope the tea gives you. Our tea and our garden are quiet things. A cup at the end of a long day, a slow morning, a little rest in the middle of everything. That's the flow going the other way, from our hands back to yours.

Where the tea comes from

Our garden sits at around 1,100 meters. Enshi is one of the only places in the world where the soil is naturally rich in selenium, and that's part of why the tea here tastes the way it does. It's cool up here, misty most mornings, and the tea grows slow. We farm it organically. No synthetic sprays, no chemical fertilizer. When the weeds come up, we pull them by hand. It's more work, but that's kind of the whole point.

And you don't have to just take my word on the clean part. I send our tea to Eurofins, an independent lab, and they screen it for pesticides. Our Enshi Yulu came back with nothing detected, not a trace. I keep those reports, and I'm happy to send them over if you want to look.

Who makes it

I make the tea by hand, and I learned it the long way, training under two national-level tea masters and working alongside the senior tea brothers I came up with. Everything you taste in our green tea, the way it's steamed, shaped, and finished, comes from that long line of teaching. Enshi Yulu is one of the oldest steamed green teas in China, and honestly, not many people still shape it by hand anymore. I'm one of the ones who does, and I'm still learning every season.

But I don't only make the classics. All of our tea grows organically at Flowit Garden, right here in our own village, and having the leaf in my own hands means I get to play with it. We're always trying new things, taking a leaf somewhere you wouldn't expect and chasing flavors most people never think to look for. Some of them turn into teas you won't find anywhere else.

The women who grow it

We run this as a cooperative, not a company. Eight farming families here on the mountain, seven of them led by women. Before this, most of them earned almost nothing from their own leaf. Now we grow it and sell it together, and we share what the tea earns based on how much each family brings in. So when a tin sells overseas, that money comes back up the mountain to the people who actually grew it, instead of stopping with a trader in between. That's the inverse I keep talking about.

How it reaches you

Everything ships from the mountain here in Enshi, right to your door. It usually takes two to three weeks. Every parcel goes out signed by hand by the farmer who grew the tea inside it, so you know exactly whose work you're holding. And you're not taking a gamble on the shipping. If a parcel gets lost before it clears customs, I refund you, all of it. If customs sends it back, I'll reship it for free or refund you. If it shows up damaged, we'll sort it out. Just email me.

Come up the mountain

The garden isn't only a place the tea comes from. Every so often someone on a gap year, or just needing to step out of their own life for a bit, comes up to the village and stays a while. They rest, they help with the tea, they meet a friend or two, and then they head on. It's a short stop, but a real one. There's always room for that here.

That's Flowinversetea. One garden, real people, tea you can actually check, a fair cut for the women who grow it, and a bit of quiet for you. Thanks for being here.