http://www.daotea.ca/web2009/wordpress find dao tea at www.daotea.ca Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:04:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is a video of Tea Masters Yang Si and Men Er handcrafting green pu er tea in Nannuo Mountain:  Yang Si\'s Pu Er Tea, Nannuo Mountain, Yunnan http://www.daotea.ca/web2009/wordpress/?p=90 The rice dumplings with unidentified meat we had for breakfast were now a distant memory; the mountain road seemed never-ending, and my friend Sun Peipei and I had no clear idea where we were heading. [caption id="attachment_77" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Fresh tea at the base of Nannuo Mountain"][/caption] Nannuo Mountain, in the Chinese ... http://www.daotea.ca/web2009/wordpress/?p=76 I sneaked under a piano and lay my head on a pillow.  Sound came, first in isolation, then as flowing stream; no thoughts, just sound. My new friend Craig Addy (www.underthepiano.ca) pioneers the concept of Sound Spa in Vancouver. Guests are cocooned by music, lying under the piano while Craig improvises ... http://www.daotea.ca/web2009/wordpress/?p=60 How can you capture the essence of a high altitude rainforest in a tea leaf?  Why have some tea groves survived for hundreds of years without any need of fertilizers or pesticides?  How do you keep tea trees producing top quality leaves year after year? These are some notes from ... http://www.daotea.ca/web2009/wordpress/?p=33 Have you seen kids by a lake feeding the waterfowl?  Little guys throwing crumbs of bread at ducks and geese, celebrating when the birds guzzle more food?  In my travels across the tea producing regions of China and South Korea, I have found my hosts to be like those kids... ... http://www.daotea.ca/web2009/wordpress/?p=1