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Rooibos and it’s health benefits

Rooibos and it’s health benefits

 ‘Tastes like medicine’ means, with a certain irony, that it tastes horrible. The healing properties of the cure justify the awful taste. ‘A bitter pill to swallow’ is similarly an...

Rooibos and it’s health benefits

 ‘Tastes like medicine’ means, with a certain irony, that it tastes horrible. The healing properties of the cure justify the awful taste. ‘A bitter pill to swallow’ is similarly an...

Chai and tea – what’s in a name?

Chai and tea – what’s in a name?

Languages evolve in fascinating ways. The Czech word for ‘worker’ became the Afrikaans and South African English word for traffic light. ‘Consumption’ once referred to Tuberculosis but now denotes economic...

Chai and tea – what’s in a name?

Languages evolve in fascinating ways. The Czech word for ‘worker’ became the Afrikaans and South African English word for traffic light. ‘Consumption’ once referred to Tuberculosis but now denotes economic...

Sustainability and organic with Sunbird Rooibos

Sustainable Packaging and Rooibos Products

On the path to better packaging. When I started Sunbird, I was convinced that I would sell mostly, perhaps even exclusively loose leaf Rooibos. I had learned about tea through...

Sustainable Packaging and Rooibos Products

On the path to better packaging. When I started Sunbird, I was convinced that I would sell mostly, perhaps even exclusively loose leaf Rooibos. I had learned about tea through...

Wild Grown Rooibos

All About Wild Rooibos

South Africa’s beautiful landscape holds many secrets waiting to be discovered. Yet, some of the secrets were known but have been lost to time. With sadness, our unfortunate history of...

All About Wild Rooibos

South Africa’s beautiful landscape holds many secrets waiting to be discovered. Yet, some of the secrets were known but have been lost to time. With sadness, our unfortunate history of...

Rooibos Tea Maker Skills

Rooibos Tea Maker Skills

The mid-summer sun dips towards the jagged peaks of the Cederberg. Their shadows slide towards a small farmstead nestled low in the valley. Here, on a broad smooth concrete court,...

Rooibos Tea Maker Skills

The mid-summer sun dips towards the jagged peaks of the Cederberg. Their shadows slide towards a small farmstead nestled low in the valley. Here, on a broad smooth concrete court,...

Rooibos from Plant to Harvest

Rooibos from Plant to Harvest

In the vast, sun-kissed plains of the Western Cape in South Africa, a remarkable journey unfolds—one that transforms the humble leaves of the indigenous Aspalathus linearis plant into the beloved...

Rooibos from Plant to Harvest

In the vast, sun-kissed plains of the Western Cape in South Africa, a remarkable journey unfolds—one that transforms the humble leaves of the indigenous Aspalathus linearis plant into the beloved...