Ancient Grain Tea Ceremony

FUNDRAISING EVENT

The comfort of tea is a connective tissue between many different cultures. As drinking tea wound its way through human history, we learned to steep different types of grains into our cups. These grains added complexity to the stories and flavors of our teas. Consuming grains in tea is still an actively cherished way to slow down and remember what it means to be human connected to community, water, and land.

On June 14th, 2024, we held a tea ceremony event, where storytellers showed us that grain teas are sources of resilience, medicine, and connection to culture. Now through an in-the-works story map, you too will be able to interact with Boricha, a roasted barley tea from South Korea; Manoominaboo Tisane, a roasted wild rice tea from Anishinaabe Territory, in Thunder Bay, Canada; and Genmaicha, a roasted brown rice and green tea from Japan.