Summer 2025 Decaf and Herbal Traveling Tea Box!
-Please include your state or country when you sign up and whether you would be willing to ship internationally.
- This swap will be for all herbal and decaf teas. For those of you sensitive to caffeine, please note that Mate and Gyayusa have quite a bit of caffeine, and Cocoa and Decaf tea contain small amounts of caffeine and may be included in this box.
-Sample as many or as few of the teas as you like. If you like a tea, feel free to keep it. Just replace it with a similar amount of tea. The teas you include can be your favorites you want others to try or things that just weren’t “your cup of tea” just as long as you think someone might like them!
-Follow me and the people who are before and after you in the list so that we can PM each other when needed. Ask for the next person’s address as soon as you get the teabox. This ensures that they are still active and available to participate. If you do not get a response from the person after you on the list within 7 days, move on to the next person, making sure to let me and the person you are skipping know they are being skipped. Let me know if something comes up before the box gets to you and I can shuffle you around in the list if you are going to be out of town when it is your turn to get the box.
-Try not to keep the box for longer than a week or two. Please update the thread when you receive the box and when you are sending it out.
-You will be required to pay for postage when you send the box out. Luckily, tea is pretty light weight, so the cost should not be excessive.
- Buying a tracking number is appreciated, but not required (it is included with priority shipping if you use that option). Please send the number to me and the next person on the list.
-Please either send the tea in its original packaging or make sure that it is labeled with the tea name and company. Recommended steeping parameters are also appreciated.
-Please make sure to package teas appropriately so that strongly scented teas do not contaminate the other teas, and so that no teas escape and wander the box while in the mail. Mylar bags work well for this
- Please replace the box if it becomes damaged.
-If you would like me to PM you when I open sign ups for the next round, please follow me and let me know in your comment.
Currently Signed Up:
rosebudmelissa, Maryland
1. Arby, Canada
2. Martin Bednář, Czech Republic
3. Kaylee, New York
4. TeaEarleGreyHot, Illinois
5. AJ Rimmer, New Mexico
6. Cameron B., Texas
Back to rosebudmelissa, Maryland
I plan to close signups and send out the box on June 27-28.
Count me in if you don’t mind sending it across the ocean once.
Yes, this teabox will be including International participants. What country are you in?
Have been having stomach issues and really enjoying herbal infusions with honey lately. Would love to participate! I’m in Texas.
I sent the box to Arby this morning! it was just over 2 lbs. It should arrive in 5-10 business days.
The box just arrived today!
Do you have Martin Bednář’s address so you can send the box when you are done with it?
Keeping a little TTB journal going here so people know what to get excited for. :)
Sampled
Unpretentious Baker – Fennel Seeds
Fronteir Coop – Peppermint
Teabags: Lidl Blueberry, Lidl Wildberry, Herbal Cup – Elderberry/Lemon/Ginger, Bigelow Botanicals – Blueberry Citrus Basil, Bigelow Botanicals – Cranberry Lime Honeysuckle, Bigelow Botanicals – Peach Lemonade Acai
Adagio – Rooibos nutcracker
Marshmallow Root herb
Echinaceae herb
Keeping
Teechino – Maya Chai
Teechino – Vanilla Nut
Dried carrots (illegal to for me to ship to Europe)
Bakuga Mugicha
Added
Davidson’s Spearmint
(single teabag) Numi – Rooibos chai
Lov Organics – Lov in mind
Hawaiian Tisane – Papaya Leaf Vanilla (contains low amount of caffeine as noted on package – contains coffee cherries)
Tea Centre – Casablanca (rooibos)
Twinnings of London – Buttermint (teabags)
Celestial Seasoning – Wildberry Zinger (whole box)
Celestial Seasoning – Gingerbread Spice
Celestial Seasoning – Sugar Plum Spice
Stonehouse Teas – Stress Reliever
Postcard Teas – Black Sun (contains caffeine but was told it is fairly low) – note on label so people know to avoid if they are sensitive to caffeine
Banff Tea Co – Decaf Sencha Green (Sencha Kyushu)
Stash – Licorice Spice (18 teabags)
Yorkshire – Evening cuppa (vanilla nutmeg decaf black)
a few stickers
Huh, dried carrots are illegal?
I am looking for Celestial Seasoning teas and Stress Reliever will be very helpful!
Now it is up to me to consider what I will put in.
Vegetables and many other plants from the ground (e.g. roots) are best not shipped over borders. I left in the marshmallow root and hoping for the best. They probably would not confiscate dried carrot but since it isn’t industry sealed I will not take the risk.
All clear for me. Yep, as TeaEarleGreyHot mentioned below, phytosanitary things are a bit scary, but definitely necessary to keep invasive organisms away.
Arby, as a professional plant pathologist, I thank you for your conscientiousness in sending plant material around the world. Yes, root material may be infested by nematodes, some of which form survival cysts that remain viable for decades. That said, cooked or roasted plant residue should be benign, but convincing an ag inspector that it was properly cooked can be challenging. And I wouldn’t want to put my colleagues in a difficult position. Imagine someone doing a cold brew infusion, thereby awakening fungal spores or other microbial propagules, and then seeing the spent leaf tossed into the compost heap, or otherwise bound for the garden! So very many plant pests are transmitted, unknowingly, in such ways!
Is this something that can cause problems for humans? Should we avoid cold brewed tisanes from roots? Or is it just a concern for plants? I do eat raw carrots and have never heard advice to avoid them, but I would be interested in your opinion.
Good point, @rosebudmelissa! This is almost entirely a plant health issue! The impact to humans is in the arrival of invasive pests and microbes to our gardens, farms, forests, and wild native species.
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