aah rearing to read! ah, everyone who loves books has to go insane. the d w. literature list 100 german must reads oh, germans drink over 133000000 cups of tea every day. and they're often more discerning than they used to be because they want to know if they're really holding a good cup in their hands. able actually making the feed in the factories. they don't almost get anything. tea drinkers, ever more exacting demands, are pushing producers to get more creative. we always take a step further and ask that that available in germany too. and many companies show

how climate protection anti production can go hand in hand back. i could also review with might be production caught by 15 percent and more and more tea drinkers want to have a positive impact. ah, well, i will be surprised if they make 7 a 6 or 7 kills per they think them on to go to the other pro. later in western georgia, christina may hick from estonia and thomas cats leone us from lithuania, are reinventing key production and getting a fresh start themselves. 4 years ago, they tried their hand at farming for the very 1st time and began a new life,

3000 kilometers from home. well, if you want to take only highest quality leaves, you have to do it by hand. sir. old it would be impossible to cut it, sir. mechanical yonder, this too leaves under but level if, if it goes mechanical, it takes every think, those sir hard and all lives as well. so in estonia, christina may heck used to work as a marketing expert for a bus company, but now she had a t plantation. is the best way to be like in connection with the nature actually. so connection where you see them growing like girl, like in the spring when they actually start to like the 1st more ones start to start to grow. it's really like her amazing feeling and te, has a long tradition in georgia in soviet times. 90 percent of the t for the gigantic

multi ethnic state was produced here using machinery and pesticides. but the t production at the foot of the caucasus mountains ended up collapsing along with the soviet union 30 years ago. and the once flourishing business gave way to poverty. a few years ago, christina remembered the georgian tea she used to always drink with her parents. and then she wondered why no one drank it any more and they started to look into it like what's up until the 17 georgia. and they understood that it has collapsed completely bloody. so this kind of late for me is parked this idea. so it's good for an interesting good and we contacted the people here, of course didn't believe us at 1st. so like as students went to brodie. oh like that doesn't sound like worry like logical or real. but when we got here than they were like, ok peer, serious?

along with a few friends, christina, may hick and thomas cats, leon has decided to take the plunge, quit their jobs and start new lives. look, i was quite successful in corporate business. i didn't have a feeling that they, i'm actually creating something that one of those sex. so tables, those meetings, present point, presentation sentence and so on and so on. but i didn't have a feeling that they actually make something that would slow left a footprint in this world too. and when i heard about this idea for pull, this is it's, it's either now or never here at the border of asia, the damp sub tropical climate and acidic soil are ideal for teeth. but also for weeks it took months to clear the old fields. they finally read this field of ferns just 3 weeks ago. i think we never actually thought about it like people kept

telling us like go stupid. like to put something on it like or like go think there was even like a joke. like some person like said the look like a burger, like just put something. no one will know who they. yeah that's, that's how it goes. so. so it's like in our, in our minds that there's like memory an option. and they're part of a real trend in germany. the amount of black and green t farmed organically rose by about one percent to 12.9 percent in 2020. while fruit and herbal teas increased by 2.5 percent to 13.5 percent ms. via cancer actually, and the other t pickers are benefiting from the new organic t idea. they worked on plantations as young women and their back added again, decades later. $34.00 and $3.00, 4th hello of their child. so bear with the 69 year old works 6 days a week, making about 20 years

a shift dollar amount of money i said to watch. yeah, i really like this set up as john daddy, mike, i'm retired but i can't make ends meet with my pension eyes. so that's why i'm out here until project autrand and i'm really thankful you got did it my i'm very happy to do it because this job gives me enough money to buy bread and i can feed my family back more trough marchers. my child, i'm with the young plantation own nurse, had to get creative to figure out how to pay the tea pickers. fair wages. tea may be in, but it shouldn't give consumers a bad conscience. and that's why the berliners on moral fen book and lay on franken, launched their start up karma, collective its mission is to help customers make a difference. and best of hello people ideally, or to see their wallets as

a sort of ballot paper. it lets them proclaim, i choose to support this so that company understood so, and that includes stops, i mean to achieve new positive things at 1st. and i think that's what sets them apart as chopped us as canada and touch it. the young entrepreneurs planned to expand their range of products. their idea is to market very regional natural cheese in returnable bottles of development of i'm often told things more work on it. and that was so appealing to me and trying things that aren't supposed to work like making bottle drinks on it. so don't people always say no way without sugar and preservative, substitute on that, but it can work in our approach is to include regional ingredients yields to i'm bought brandenburg is close by 4 berliners and the german capital is full of organic food enthusiasts. so that's why i one movie got in touch with yog usta who's cultivating 40 heck, tears of fennel. and that's just one of the flavors of our own models,

new t's depending on what the weather allows. you can keep harvesting it for 3 or 4 years in a row, and it tastes good. vision was one of them. he's nearing his goal of producing t regionally. doesn't end of this notation. of course. it's really an almost emotional experience. because i know at some point that things will be running like clockwork, obviously not so nice. so it should ah, his positivity is contagious. the i've langford with your, from course in between. we farmers working here at this big farm are actually pretty cut off from the final processing step of our products. and if it's toilet, does it? no, i think it's great how this new company is tackling organic products and trying to sell them regionally. good life, a mock mr. that makes them a good partner. we're really happy to collaborate with. feelings does assessment

then we had looked at gallons, was on low. i know the only harvest the seeds at the funnel, it takes them 2 days to dry, and then they're ready for herbal tea. with some of some things. it looks different from the egyptian varieties last, and it looks great in glass and he's planning to pick up 200 kilos of fennel seeds today. come on on this one isn't him. if you're new to the business on you 1st check where you can get fennel else's and that was through a vendor in egypt. then we approached the farm and they started supplying us and lost it get, but they were still ultimately located in asia of unclear. now and then i thought it's all ok, but it'll also grow here. and brandon burton wanted walk. and ever since then we've had brandenburg fennel here on the little thinner ones. they're still working out the final new t recipe. but wondering, producer nearby has committed to their experiment and they've had their share

a failed attempts. so they have to stay focused a color touch off. of course things can go wrong as well, and we won't know until we tasted it from us. so there's always some tension on going to and it's about to get hectic, hector, because everything has to be just right still, including the brewing timed inside. besides fennel, the t mixture includes hibiscus ment, mateo, blackberry leaves and nothing else where juicing machines used to make organic juices. there are now t strainers with what an intense mel, my goodness, if i viscous. i'm facing, a pastor rises his juices at 80 degrees celsius, but that's too low for t. it needs higher temperatures to release its substances for my phone or if you don't have a makeshift take it like this in front of you every day. and the process is a different, you 1st have to learn and get a feeling for how everything works and how they learn their lessons from their

failed attempts. so far, all internal looks good. hopefully it tastes good to the bottle. t is supposed to be launched in stores as soon as possible at 41 euro. 79. o. tears lighted slightly. a city from so that house make it really refreshing, horrible garden on to far with the colors. great. i think we can be satisfied. good job. the contents of the t strainer, used at the juice, producer end up in the compost bin to make fertilizer for the next plants and the next experiment. and there will be a next 1. 1 of the world's best known t cultivation regions is awesome. india but awesome has a terrible image. it's name as tarnished by starvation, wages and over exploitation of nature. but there's more to the place than that.

ketone patel is the 3rd generation owner of the jolina t estate. he produces $800.00 tons of t a year. his organic t plantation is the biggest of its kind in india for me, or it has been a very exciting journey um, because of my overseas exposure with various travellers, exhibition participation, interaction with customers as well. and sustainability certifications. i've always been motivated and always taken learn learnings from those and come back and implemented that. angelina. india is 2nd only to china in te cultivation and the countries potential is enormous and plantation owner ketone

patel doesn't intend to rest on his laurels. his ambitious plan is to make the plantation c o 2 neutral the number one climate killer is the black. coal traditionally used to dry the tea leaves and then there are the harvest remains. that release climate damaging methane when rotting regarding the car bama that we collect. we felt obviously that this could be used for a benefit to create energy, whether it's pellets, whether it's combusting good for i saw fertility. they produce a ton of pallets a day enough to substitute most of their black coal, and they soon plan to replace it completely which could help lower annual c o 2 emissions by 2300 tons. i can see the output is slow right now. what has to be much faster? yeah. organic energy instead of waste. that's just one of the many ideas

ketone patel is implementing to make his delingo t estate more climate friendly. the reason is one is the green alternative. it and wyman friendly, but the 2nd also is that it will also reduce might be production caused by 15 percent. so basically it's a win win for the industry as well as the environment and to protect the environment even more he aims to produce his he gardens, c o, 2 emissions by another $1000.00 tons a year. t picker, chunk harry gala lives on the plantation with her family. and she's been cooking over an open fire so far, but that's bad for the climate and the people. so the plantation owner is getting 1500 families, a little gift with a big impact. yellow beer. la. come look at eva. this is for you to cook with you. it wasn't the book. this efficient would

oven doesn't smolder. and it's good for your health coverage with climate protection starts small and every little bit helps. ah, despite having to learn a new language and writing system, christina, may hick quickly felt at home in georgia. oh, yeah. the estonian has new ideas, while marcia kinser ashville has old stories from back when georgia was still part of the soviet union entering daily, changed ref. i only, she was very important back then i get that, that smell so good luck on data is chase. she was exported abroad a chinese, you know, we got bonuses and had great working conditions. we have several of did working on

the key plantations. he were financially secure. i said, oh, i'm actually about to chase blended. it was a happy time for ms. dia kinslow, rationally. that was over 30 years ago. i turned out our collision was our young from not recognizable when the soviet union broke apart. we had no more in common chemistry. it's our plantations became while i was dumped on it. and because we weren't earning enough anymore, my son went to garage guys of the diabetes we've only managed to make ends meet for his financial support. so it really does somewhat. it's not ever the tea producer pays above average wages during the 5 month harvest season. and that enables employees to make a living for the rest of the year. one of the been so far in the 1st year they harvested 10 kilos and now in year for they expect 2 tons,

hundreds tharpe who from estonia has tough work days. but he says it would be too harmful to the environment to use machines to dry the leaves. the fact that is the result for like those my face, like ready to put like a lot of these on things like forest like error of installation and, and also be sometimes heat. so for example, run me base for us like, well, with the current weather, maybe 15, all were to strengthen all worse than in those big factories. it takes maybe 2 hours, 3 hours and the leaf is ready to go. green black and white t r mate from the same plant, camelia sims's, there just processed differently and the staff to everything themselves here from drying and rolling the leaves to packing and shipping the finished tea. that way. the money stays at the farm i. it comes in the beginning of their prices start at 6 euros for 50 grams of t. ethical production comes at

a cost when we started to look into the industry and, and how it works. but for farmers almost don't get anything, the people actually making the theme in the factories, they don't almost get anything. and, and it just turns her off. because like if you like this mass market for these, they are sold in the global market, maybe $3.00 a key lot, 4th, dollars, killer. only blocking cost for us like that. those ladies were harvesting the leaves about 86 percent of the sales price in germany goes to the supermarkets and t production companies. while workers in the indian state of our sam, for instance, receive just 1.4 percent according to an oxfam study. the owners of the plantation in georgia wanted to avoid such conditions in their own business. that's why they thought up their own special business model. hey,

in awesome plantation owner keaton patel distributed 4000 of the new climate friendly wood ovens and the families of the t pickers are trying them out. will they become well established, like the ingenious plantation owner hopes that she did? he of gold con him put on his sister, you like cooking with this stove. roger obviously went, forgot the owner. nan, i this drive is better than the old one. it takes less wood to cook and cooks foster. we need 4 kilos of wood for this one. and we used to need 10, how can it at any level and that lowers c o 2 emissions. and even for the chart would left over the plantation owner has an idea the families can sell it to the plantation. and then the charcoal can be used to dry out the tea leaves, instead of the climate damaging black coal with $25.00 kilos times $400.00. that makes 100 rupees 8 you had for every come by

artist new stove helps us send some money by selling the left over coals to the t. planned to ashley park ran through our mission, notably and my family benefits from the additional income or quality that bush my little paragraph keaton, patel's ingenuity to lower c o. 2 emissions knows no limits. the plantation is already preparing for its next project, sponsored by german climate organization. atmospheric for different compost mixtures are being enriched with environmental bio coal. so what mix makes the best fertilizer project manager so much data is hoping this effort will boost to yields by up to 30 percent. will see the competition how dog soil is been developed in terms of what are lingers. it is,

i'll also be and the ph window of the side. and when compared with that, each and every block is always with our 4 blocks, which is which one is giving them is better than their ambitious goal is to only consume what the farm produces itself and for plantation owner ketone patel. it's a question of survival. that's the only way you can do organic in a competitive way and having a long term perspective in terms of climate and warming. there are thousands of t plantations in india. but climate visionaries, blank he tend patel still have a lot of convincing to do ah . in their adopted home of georgia, the baltic t farmers have thought up an unusual business model. they sell plots of their land on line. and there are already 169 virtual buyers from 21 countries.

the demand is so enormous that they constantly have to clear new parts of their soviet era plantation. when i see people are basically buying car part of our plantation, like a small plots and her phone. they do not become owner of the spot, but if they get her half of the tea, which is produced from that block for 25 years. so we feel, for example, produce like 20 kilos of tease them. the owner of the spot gets sir. thank you. lot of teeth at the end of the season. they encourage customer loyalty by adding personalized names, signs in the middle of georgia. christina may hick and the others name their farm renegade to emphasize their alternative ways to help the people with

their own view bush's sir feel kind of part of it. them sir. and the field closer to nature. and they actually get this really personal experience that they know who are their own to farmers are fillet, be neck from germany, works for a humanitarian foundation in courtesy and he gave his parents their own t bush. now he's taking a look at it. okay. i think i thought it costs 75 euros to sponsor a bush and an exchange. he received 3 different packages of tea a year so people can donate to support a great idea and promote a kinder economy. it's an interesting cartoon from your side alo martin, as an envy, we could all pitch into some extent and help food and drink businesses. take a look outside the city a bit and there are many options in germany and international im roscoe beaver lot

to better understand the work behind it. oil and how it's about more than just a tea bag. i love an inch mazda, if you drink it fast, and then throw it away fast. but when you see how it comes from it's, he leaves us and all the work that goes into it, and who did it. you may be, enjoy it more and be less weight a full renovation. these idealistic visions have many supporters because the renegade farm gives them a look behind the scenes of the t. and they can see just how hard it is to compete with low cost t brands. ah, this makes also sure that the connection if they are workers normally because really go kick out the middleman basically who, who are usually take the money. so i, i hope that this kind of system not only in t but then forth in general, would go either. so people, of course, the products are more expensive than but the, i hope that the, in general people with maybe consume less, let's consume,

like more high quality and sustainable for that. ah, there's a lot you can do for a good cup of tea. ah ah ah ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, with

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