Grass People Tree (GPT)

Which goals align?

Since the Tea Tavern's goal is to help people achieve a better, healthier life, what are the priorities that the organization's goal align with?

- [x] Does it taste good to people who enjoy high quality tea?
- [x] Is the tea likely to be healthy?

How goals are aligned?

The Tea Tavern's keeper occasionally speaks with Rui, the owner of Grass People Tree and found a genuine passion in her for tea as an art, as a medicine, and it's traditions. Based on her educational content and blog postings, the Tea Tavern finds that the ecosystem they grow tea from, the people they work with to craft their products, and the process in which they use to make their teas are perhaps honored more than the tea that they sell, itself. 
The teas that they sell are all from wild and ancient trees. The leaves are processed in a much more careful  and special manner, as to prevent qualities that would make them bitter. As a result, we can be sure that the plants they use are healthy, that all the health benefiting substances in tea are at their strongest, and that there won't be any additional substances that can result in harming a person's health.
Rui described taking care of the tea plants by removing unhealthy portions of the plant and using minimal amounts of natural fertilizers.
This results in a tea that is unlike any other that the Tea Tavern finds in that the brews almost never become bitter, even when accidentally left brewing in boiling water like Master's Green. (^^;)7 
As a result, not only can we consider the tea likely to be healthful and full of pleasant flavors, but also difficult to brew in a way that would make the tea's brew unpleasant to most people.
GPT takes care of its employees by helping the sisters who pick and pack tea obtain funding to help progress their personal goals, such as to learn English. Rui communicates directly with many of the wholesale vendors, visits many of their tea houses as she travels, and generally been one of the most welcoming and helpful people to the world's tea community.
As a result, GPT is one of Tea Tavern's favorite partners, supplying us with the teas found in the Wild Tea Sampler. (^-^)