Our Products for Home & Homestead

Here at Heritage Harvest Home(stead)

we create a variety of

products.

The sales from these products help to keep the farm in the black.  We offer products locally through

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Tea for You!

I've been known as THE TEA LADY and for years have given teas for 2-100 participants with various themes:  Birthdays, Children's Teas and even Victorian/Civil War teas.  In 1995 I became a CERTIFIED TEA CONSULTANT and have also given various talks on tea and etiquette both now and etiquette from the past.

In the 90's I owned an on-line coffee and tea company called THE BROWN BAG GOURMET or BROWN BAG GOURMET GOODIES that sold coffee and tea products.  I sold the company in 1999 but just can't stay away from tea.

Today I grow many of my own components for my herbal teas and when I source ingredients I look first for local components and then look for the best quality components possible.  I think you'll love our teas and prefer them to the mass produced, bagged teas that are made with cheap components.

When purchasing actual tea leaves I buy only the best available and you'll be able to tell by the flavor.  We try to avoid China whenever possible and are currently using Pre-meltdown Japanese Tea (when these are gone there will be no more for several years).

A list of our teas are below:

New Research Reveals Yet More Health Benefits For Black Tea

New mechanisms by which black tea could help to prevent cancer have been revealed in two recent studies.[1]^,[2]  Black tea, the most widely consumed beverage in the UK, and its components, has been associated in several in vitro and in vivo studies with the potential to reduce the risk of cancer. As an emerging field of study, it is only very recently beginning to show what the mechanisms for this protective effect might be. These two recently published studies provide intriguing new information in relation to these mechanisms.

 Commenting on the studies, Dr Tim Bond of the Tea Advisory Panel notes: “In the first study,¹ researchers from New Jersey in the United States evaluated theaflavin-2 (TF-2), a compound unique to black tea (and oolong), which has been shown to kill cancer cells, a process known as apoptosis. This study set out to explore the mechanisms by which theaflavin-2 might induce cancer cell death, including effects on inflammation as inflammation is one contributory mechanism in the development of cancer. This was a laboratory based study that tested cancer cells.

“Theaflavin-2, the component of black tea extract, triggered cancer cell death (apoptosis), inducing shrinkage of cancer cells within 3 hours of treatment. When the researchers looked at a specific set of genes that kill cancer cells, Theaflavin-2 was found to up-regulate or activate these genes. The study also showed the ability of Theaflavin-2 to suppress the activity of a gene that induces the inflammatory enzyme cyclooxygenase (COX) 2 while also reducing the activity of other inflammatory molecules (such as TNF-α and nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-_KB). Theaflavin-2 was also shown to reduce inflammation and also produced a pattern of gene regulation similar to that found in the cancer cells. These results suggest that Theaflavin-2, a major component of black tea has the capacity to help kill cancer cells through mechanisms involving gene regulation and an anti-inflammatory effect.