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Episode 70: Honest Tea Organic Discontinued

Tea News for the week ending May 27

| Coca-Cola Discontinues the Iconic Honest Tea Brand
| FAO: Embracing Sustainable Agriculture is Essential for Tea Smallholders
| Starbucks Exits the Russian Market after 15 years, closing 130 locations
| PLUS On the northern shores of Lake Superior, in Ontario Canada, Anishinaabe tea blenders of the First Nation’s Obijwe clan combine locally harvested wild rice with imported Japanese sencha to create roasted wild rice known as Manoomin Cha a version of genmaicha.

Caption: Denise Atkinson and Marc Bohémier introduce their North American version of genmaicha.

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Editor | Publisher | Podcaster | Consultant | Journalist Dan is the founder of Tea Journey Magazine, the Tea Biz Podcast and Blog, and a contributing editor at STiR coffee and tea. He is the former editor and publisher of Tea Magazine, former editor and publisher of World Tea News, and former editor-in-chief at Specialty Coffee Retailer, then headquartered in San Francisco. Dan has traveled the tea lands, speaking on retail beverage trends in Canada and the United States and at conferences in Europe, China, India, Australia, the Middle East, South America, and Africa.

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