Our "The Tea Explorer" Documentary is - finally - up on Youtube (with heaps of ads).
Our "The Tea Explorer" Documentary is - finally - up on Youtube (with heaps of ads).
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Jeff Fuchs
Oct 5, 20231 min read
Expedition Update - Departures
The concept of a ‘departure' has all changed since Sebastian’s arrival into our little orbit. Now a departure isn’t simply an exciting...
Jeff Fuchs
Nov 13, 20223 min read
Tokoname Clay of Seiji Ito's Hands
First day in Japan and already a day 'late'. A day late in meeting a man who has been crafting clay from Tokoname into tea vessels for...
Jeff Fuchs
Oct 10, 20221 min read
Lobsang - A nomad's 'simple' views
A morning of brittle cold that brought the eyes to a standstill in Darlag, southern Amdo. Lobsang watches while his two sons source ice...
Jeff Fuchs
Sep 4, 20211 min read
Omu, The Strong
Arriving to a new camp and homestead, Omu sets about going through an unending list of ‘musts’. One of the musts is securing tent ‘fly’...
Jeff Fuchs
Aug 3, 20211 min read
Leaf Journeys, Leaf Ageing, and the Heights
It was upon the months' long journeys along the Tea Horse Road that the big-leafed 'assamica' material and eternal panacea, tea, would...
Jeff Fuchs
Jun 30, 20211 min read
Pomo - The Girl Who Could Do it All
'Cheshi' in the early morning in her family’s nomadic camp of Shin’zhu’gong at close to 5000 metres. I continually messed up her name,...
Jeff Fuchs
Jun 9, 20211 min read
The Tea Sessions' Latest Column - Masters wear Flip-Flops
Few have had quite the leaf influence upon me, as has Mr. Gao (aka Dr. Gao, Master Gao, or just Master). From his understated approach to...
Jeff Fuchs
May 24, 20211 min read
Interview with Tea Biz - Informality shouldn't be lost
A few thoughts shared in a recent interview with Tea Biz here. In the great rush of tea paraphernalia and in the increasingly creative...
Jeff Fuchs
Apr 27, 20211 min read
A Pass, The 'Feel', and Karma's Chai
The mind wanders back to a pass, a blizzard, and that wonderful thing that exists still: instinct. On a day of few words along a portion...
Jeff Fuchs
Mar 26, 20211 min read
Tea Horse Road Chronicles - The Tea That Never Came
A simple tea room in Weishan, Yunnan, and one of the only tea rooms in my life that I failed to actually have tea in. Weishan was another...
Jeff Fuchs
Mar 9, 20212 min read
Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Part Goat and a Little Part Human
Over the course of years since meeting Dorjè I’ve written and pondered much about him. “Part goat and a little part human” was how he was...
Jeff Fuchs
Mar 7, 20212 min read
Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Choices, No Choices, and some Courage
Ascending up to the Sho La Pass in northwestern Yunnan in May there would always be a chance of weather issues, but it would still be a...
Jeff Fuchs
Feb 27, 20211 min read
Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Tea and Bloodlines
On foot our team of four puttered and wandered west (often faintly lost) through the Nyanqen Tanghla mountains in Tibet towards Lhasa....
Jeff Fuchs
Feb 21, 20211 min read
Tea Horse Chronicles - The Bend
It was here at the ‘first bend of the Yangtze’, at Shigu, in Yunnan province that the Mongolian armies of the Yuan Dynasty crossed the...
Jeff Fuchs
Feb 19, 20211 min read
The Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Remnants
Within the tidy remnants of a former ‘Tea and Horse Trade Office’ in Mingshan County, near Ya’an in Sichuan, Jamyan and I wandered for 25...
Jeff Fuchs
Feb 9, 20211 min read
Tea Horse Chronicles - Fields vs Forests
Blankets and ridges of green stimulant leaf lie in rows near Puerh. Here the leaf is entirely industry. Gorgeous industry, but still...
Jeff Fuchs
Jan 28, 20211 min read
Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Way Out, and Out Again
Yeshi and I shared tea with this old memory palace of time. Goat milk and butter were used instead of yak variations. The tea was deadly...
Jeff Fuchs
Jan 23, 20211 min read
Tea Horse Chronicles - Blessings and Warnings
It was from this patch of grassland near Napa Lake, just north of my home in Dukezong (old town of 'Shangrila') that our expedition...
Jeff Fuchs
Jan 14, 20211 min read
Tea Horse Chronicles - Tea's Value
“Tea is our everything. I don’t know where it comes from but we take it every day in the morning, afternoon, and night. Our children...
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