From the Farm · Summer

From Field to Cold Infusion: Whole-Leaf Greens in Summer

Summer is when the connection between the field and the cup is easiest to see. Young barley, wheat and oat leaves move from our fields into on-farm processing, then become whole-leaf infusions that can be served hot, chilled or cold-infused.

When the crop is ready, harvest days move quickly. The leaves are cut young, brought in from the field and processed on the same farm where they were grown. That proximity matters to us because we are not buying an anonymous ingredient and trying to build a story around it later. The ingredient starts here.

What “whole leaf” means at Natural Farmworks

Our dry infusions are made from recognizable pieces of young cereal leaves. We do not mill the leaves into a drink powder. The finished product is designed to be steeped in water, then removed or strained before drinking.

That format creates a very different drinking experience: a clear infusion, visible ingredients and a flavour that comes from the leaves, herbs, flowers and spices in the blend.

Why summer suits cold infusion

Cold infusion is one of the simplest ways to use Tea’d Greens in warm weather. Add a pyramid sachet or loose leaf to cold water, refrigerate, and let time do the work. The result is usually lighter and softer than a hot infusion poured over ice.

Clean Green

Clean Green is the most direct expression of the crop: young barley, wheat and oat leaves with nothing added. Cold-infused, it has a light, naturally grassy character.

Meadow Mint

Meadow Mint adds lemon mint, peppermint and spearmint. It works well over ice with a squeeze of lime or topped with sparkling water.

Earl Grey

Earl Grey brings bergamot oil and roasted orange peel to the young greens. Chilled, the citrus notes become especially noticeable.

Farm-to-cup is literal here

We grow the young leaves, harvest them and carry out the key processing steps on our farm in Bridesville, British Columbia. We also blend and package the dry infusions here. Keeping those stages close together gives us direct oversight of the ingredient from crop to finished product.

That is the part of the story we want to make easier to understand: Tea’d Greens is value-added Canadian agriculture. We take a crop we grow ourselves and turn it into a finished beverage product at the place it was grown.

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