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Grow a Tea Garden

Posted by Morag Gamble on July 2, 2022 in Permaculture Garden, Plastic Free July | 1697 Views

Did you know that up to 25% of your standard teabag is plastic and that billions of microplastics shed from the bag into each cup of tea you drink?

But don’t worry, here are three easy fixes to this problem

  • Swap to loose leaf, use a tea ball, teapot or plunger.
  • Buy loose tea in bulk from a zero-waste store or with friends.
  • Or, why not swap to homegrown teas. They are simple to grow – even in pots on a balcony or windowsill and you don’t need much space.

Some of my favourites that I grow just near my kitchen are lemonbalm, lemon myrtle, mints, pineapple sage and tulsi. To make the tea, you just grab a handful like that, stick it into a teapot, let it seep for a few minutes, and then drink. I also love adding fresh turmeric, mint and ginger too, if you’d like to add an extra zing of flavour.

When you grow your own tea leaves, it means you are able to mess around with the flavours a bit, you know, blend different sorts of teas and come up with new combinations.

Watch my video on all these great combinations

If you don’t have the means or can’t wait to grow your own tea, you can still make an improvement by buying bulk. Find your local bulk foods markets and bring your own jar to fill with loose tea leaves. Many places will have a nice selection available.

To learn more about growing a permaculture garden simply and easily, check out our course The Incredible Edible Garden and learn how to design your own permaculture landscape in our Permaculture Design Course.

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What is your favourite homegrown tea combination?

 

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Morag Gamble

MORAG GAMBLE Blog is an award-winning Australian permaculture designer, speaker, author, blogger, film-maker and teacher. She creates the popular Our Permaculture Life Blog and YouTube channel, offers online permaculture education – The Incredible Edible Garden and the Permaculture Educators Program, a combined Permaculture Design Certificate and Permaculture Teacher Certificate.

Morag is the founder and Executive Director of the Permaculture Education Institute and runs a small permaculture charity, Ethos Foundation. Each month she also offers free online monthly masterclasses.

Morag is an urban permaculture pioneer and cofounder of the Australian City Farms and Community Gardens Network and Northey Street City Farm in Brisbane.

Morag offers a wealth of knowledge of all things permaculture and has taught in 22 countries – she is always teaching and sharing. Morag’s natural habitat is her award-winning edible landscape at Crystal Waters Ecovillage.

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My name is Morag Gamble and I am living and working a permaculture life. I live an ‘Off-the-Grid’ lifestyle in a permaculture village near Maleny in the subtropical part of southeast Queensland, Australia with my husband and 3 young children.

We designed and built our modular eco-home – with much appreciated help from my family. We are mortgage-free and live simply. Our income is derived from permaculture-related activities. We grow a lot of vegetables, herbs and fruit in the polycultural garden-playground surrounding our home. We collect our water, deal with our wastewater on-site and produce most of our own power.

I love this way of living and I love bringing my children up in this environment. They are Nature Kids and they are learning vital skills for resilience, compassion and future problem solving through our ecological unschooling approach.

I am also passionate about how this way of life can make a positive contribution to society and support ecological regeneration.

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