Honeybush Herbal Tea

This unique drink is tasty and aromatic. It brews up a warm reddish - brown color, is full-bodied and slightly spicy with a sweet aftertaste. It's a great drink hot or iced, with or without milk and sweetener. Honeybush is completely natural. It contains no additives, preservatives or artificial colors. Naturally caffeine free.

Honeybush herbal tea, a cousin of Rooibos, is native to the Cape of South Africa. Almost all Honeybush is currently harvested from the wild, and great care is taken to preserve its habitat. The entire harvesting process is very tedious and labor intensive. The Honeybush is hand-cut by groups of harvesters who use sickles (a curved metal blade on a short handle). The stems are then made into bundles of 15 to 20 pounds and transported to a lower collection point using wire and a pulley system. The Honeybush is then moved to the processing plant where it is placed in a large stainless steel tank. The tanks, or fermentation ovens, produce about 350 pounds of dry tea every 80 hours. Once the tea is air dried it is cut, sifted, and ready for use.