Read about the history behind Advent calendars and our first 12 Days of Tea Winter Countdown Advent Calendar.

Tea leaf reading is a fascinating activity. Learn how to do tea leaf readings and more about this ancient art.

Cinnamon has been around for centuries. Learn about it and all our cinnamon tea offerings.

Mike gives the background on Mike’s Tea Ratings and insights into what the ratings mean.

We’re excited to welcome the Year of the Wood Dragon for the 2024 Lunar New Year! The Lunar New Year is an especially magical time, full of storied traditions and larger-than-life tales. We love de...

Learn how matcha is made, what the different grades of matcha mean and other great facts about matcha.

Celebrate France’s Bastille Day on July 14 with our French-themed teas including black teas, white teas and herbal teas.

Get the scoop on the different types of green teas, including Japanese green teas, Chinese green teas, matcha teas, and more.

Spring is prime time for harvesting the finest Chinese green teas. Discover some favorites and enjoy brewing them in traditional Yixing teapots.

Enjoy getting to know Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, the owner and president of Shohokuenchten tea company in Kyoto, Japan, and a longtime colleague and friend of the Harneys.

Explore the origins of the word “tea” and how trade routes impacted the way it is spelled and pronounced, along with slang for tea.

Harney & Sons is proud to support Fair Trade Certified farmers and products. Learn what Fair Trade Certified means and why it’s important.

Find out the surprising answer to which country consumes the most tea per person.

There’s lots of interesting history and information around tea, one of the oldest drinks in the world!

Learn about our connection with the nonprofit organization Historic Royal Palaces and the teas we created to help support their work.

We explore the fascinating origins of well-known tea sayings and idioms, relate their meanings and how they came to be part of our vocabulary.

Tea has played a surprisingly significant role in war. This post examines the role of tea in events that led to the Opium Wars with China.

Tea has played a surprisingly significant role in war. This post examines the role of tea in events that led to the Revolutionary War.

March 8, 2020 is International Women’s Day. Meet some women who were tea pioneers or just pioneers who loved tea!