{"id":4593,"date":"2019-09-09T10:38:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T07:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newagri.org\/tea-in-capsules\/"},"modified":"2024-11-07T15:26:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T12:26:30","slug":"tea-in-capsules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newagri.org\/en\/success-stories\/tea-in-capsules\/","title":{"rendered":"\u03a4ea in capsules"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meet Tasos<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tasos Xristopoulos, 27 and newly married, lives in Vrinena Almiros, a village with 250 permanent residents located 60 kilometers from Volos. Tasos produces traditional Greek mountain tea, or tsai tou vounou<\/em> (Sideritis raeseri). His family also owns 50 free-range cows, 300 free-range goats, and 400 sheep that they keep in the stable all year, cultivated in the traditional way. Both his parents and his mother\u2019s parents are farmers, and the whole family works together in the fields. \u201cWe have 40 years of experience with the tea and with the animals. I helped in the fields and with the animals since I was little,\u201d Tasos said. \u201cI finished vocational high school, and after my military service, I took up work in the fields.\u201d He owns 15 stremmata on Mount Othrys and rents 5 more. He is currently preparing 11 organic stremmata at 1100 meters, and the non-organic stremmata are at 600 meters. The entire production process is done by hand: weeding three times a year, the harvest from approximately 20 May – 20 June, drying the tea in a warehouse. They sell their tea to a trader, their milk to a creamery, and their meat to a butcher shop in Almiros.<\/p>\n

Participating in the Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Program<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tasos first heard about the medicinal and aromatic plant program from the leader of a seminar series for new farmers. Of the 20 tea producers from Vrinena Almiros who participated in the program, he knew only two beforehand. One was Christos Mylonas, whose fields neighbored his. \u201cOne important lesson I learned last season was how to propagate tea from seeds instead of by cutting a part from the mature plant. Every four or five years, the crop must be renewed. The second and third years have the strongest yields, and after that, the yield falls.\u201d<\/p>\n

Out of the 20 producers in the region, Tasos and Christos were two of the five selected to continue to the second phase of the program, where they will receive advanced training to turn their tea into an innovative product that they can bring to market. They intend to produce capsules with special blends of mountain tea and other local aromatic herbs that can be used in an espresso machine,[1]<\/a>\u00a0 and they are currently experimenting with various combinations of mountain tea with mint, chamomile, and other ingredients from Vrinena Almiros. \u201cThe second phase seems more difficult, but we have a great group, and I think we will do well,\u201d Tasos said.<\/p>\n

As a result of his participation in the program, Tasos has also connected with representatives from APIVITA, a company that makes natural cosmetics from organic Greek products and is interested in buying his tea. \u201cAPIVITA wants organic tea, which must be grown naturally without fertilizer or additives,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m transitioning my fields so that we can work together. The process takes three years, and this will be the second.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTasos has made an effort to get into organic farming,\u201d said Falia Economou, director of the Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Program at the Agricultural University of Athens. \u201cNow he\u2019s found an entry into the market.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to have a stable production and be able to sell my tea at a good price,\u201d Tasos said. \u201cI am very thankful for all that the program has given me. I\u2019ve learned many new things, and the teachers and my collaborators are great. I hope to continue working with them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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