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Cascadia Tea Festival 🍵 @cascadiatea.bsky.social · 3d

Cascadia Tea Festival Autumn Virtual Steep 'n Sip is coming on Nov 1! Free tickets on our website:
www.cascadiatea.org/event-detail...

Autumn tea boxes with a tea pet and fall teas to go with the event are $17. Financial hardship discount available.

2025 Cascadia Autumn Steep 'n Sip | Cascadia Tea Fest

Join us online on November 1st to share tea! We'll enjoy a cozy fall vibe as we drink tea, chat with special guests, and enjoy being part of the tea community.

www.cascadiatea.org

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Jessica (she/her) @jessicalikestea.bsky.social · Apr 12

Can't wait!

Friday Afternoon Tea @fridaytea.com · Apr 11

Blooms and breakfast tea? Yes please! ☕️🐰 Come visit us at Cascadia Tea Festival in Everett tomorrow for a breath of spring and a cuppa!

Festival info here: www.cascadiatea.org/

french press and cup of tea beside bunny tea pet and branches of plum blossoms

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Jessica (she/her) @jessicalikestea.bsky.social · Apr 5

Come drink tea and enjoy nerding out over the best of beverages!

Cascadia Tea Festival 🍵 @cascadiatea.bsky.social · Apr 5

Cascadia Tea Festival is April 12th in Everett, WA! Get your free tickets and don't forget your cup!

www.cascadiatea.org

#tea #teafeed #teasky #teafestival

Banner reads 2025 Cascadia Tea Festival. Two white bunnies sit on a teaboard with tea accessories with pink flowers in the background.

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Jessica (she/her) @jessicalikestea.bsky.social · Feb 24

This place is also in NC: camforest.com/collections/...

Tea Camellias

Camellia sinensis are the plants we have to thank for White, Green, Oolong, and Black teas. Though the leaves all come from the same plant, each unique flavor is achieved by harvesting specific leave...

camforest.com

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Jessica (she/her) @jessicalikestea.bsky.social · Feb 24

Or if you are near Oregon: mintoislandtea.com/tea-plants

Grow Tea — Minto Island Tea Company

mintoislandtea.com

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Jessica (she/her) @jessicalikestea.bsky.social · Feb 24

If you are still interested... www.burntridgenursery.com/mobile/baske...

Burnt Ridge Nursery

www.burntridgenursery.com

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Dr Zoë Ayres @zjayres.bsky.social · Feb 11

On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a reminder to not close your eyes and turn away from what is happening in the US right now. Fascism is an assault on scientific integrity, knowledge, and innovation.

www.chron.com/news/space/a...

NASA to wipe mentions of women, Indigenous people from websites

NASA employees told to remove mentions of women, indigenous people, and environmental justice from websites.

www.chron.com

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Franciska de Vries 🟥 @frantecol.bsky.social · Feb 11

On #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience let me remind you that we are NOWHERE NEAR parity. A few examples.

1. Women are credited less in science than men.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Women are credited less in science than men - Nature

The difference between the number of men and women listed as authors on scientific papers and inventors on patents is at least partly attributable to unacknowledged contributions by women scientists.

www.nature.com

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Jessica (she/her) @jessicalikestea.bsky.social · Feb 12

Book cover artist was Hildebrandt vs author/editor of the book (Coville.) It looks a lot like the LOTR art by the Hildebrandt brothers, gorgeous rich color and light.

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Jessica (she/her) @jessicalikestea.bsky.social · Feb 12

No, artist was Tim (Greg?) Hildebrandt. Book (Unicorn Treasury) was compiled by Coville. www.budplantandhutchisonbooks.com/pages/books/...

The Unicorn Treasury by Bruce Coville on Bud Plant & Hutchison Books

New York: Doubleday, 1988. Hildebrandt, Greg. 1st ed. Hardcover. 1st ptg., narrow 8vo, pictorial boards, stories, poems and unicorn lore compiled and edited by Coville and illustrated with color and g...

www.budplantandhutchisonbooks.com

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Jessica (she/her) @jessicalikestea.bsky.social · Feb 6

Alt text: Schoolhouse Rock screen capture with a bill and a child sitting on the steps to congress. The bill says, "Sorry, kid. There's no song to explain this crap."

Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Feb 5

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Jessica (she/her) @jessicalikestea.bsky.social · Feb 6

Today's tea is also an Assam and Keemun blend from my seldom used le creuset kettle on the gas stovetop because the power went out. Snow day shenanigans.

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Jessica (she/her) @jessicalikestea.bsky.social · Feb 6

My "dignity, safety, and well-being" has never been threatened by providing human rights, respect, equality, and inclusion to all humans, including trans women. Those things have been threatened for years by conservative politics, religious conservatism, misogynists, and bigos. That's today's tea.

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Jessica (she/her) @jessicalikestea.bsky.social · Feb 5

I feel like we're living in The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade. And maybe we thought we were the visitors there to see the play, but really we're the inmates.

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Jessica (she/her) @jessicalikestea.bsky.social · Feb 1

Thinking of Baba Yaga and her capacity for wisdom or wreckage, but always her own strength, as I get ready to craft some treasure necklace strands for her. Haven't decided yet which tea will go with that, maybe something smoky and earthy? What would you recommend?

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · Jan 26

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has announced that it is arbitrarily dismissing student and parent complaints arising out of public schools’ documented acts of censorship and discrimination.
Our response: Book bans are real.
Full statement ➡️ www.ala.org/news/2025/01...

Book Bans Are Real. American Library Association

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Jessica (she/her) @jessicalikestea.bsky.social · Jan 27

So excited for the next Cascadia Tea Festival! 🍵 🐇

Cascadia Tea Festival 🍵 @cascadiatea.bsky.social · Jan 27

A little bunny told us the 4th Cascadia Tea Festival is coming to Everett on April 12th...

We'll be in Floral Hall and Lions Hall with space for chatting and tasting tea with local tea vendors (yay!) and seperate dedicated space for tea education and tastings.

#teafest #teasky #teafeed #tea

Osmanthus Tea Bunny and bunny friends sit with a sign that says Cascadia Tea Festival, April 12, 2025, Floral Hall, Everett.

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Jessica (she/her) @jessicalikestea.bsky.social · Jan 21

Hard to say. I still drink black tea daily, but I really love oolong and fresher sheng pu erh. The comfort element of drinking a mug of black tea is definitely stronger though!

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Jessica (she/her) @jessicalikestea.bsky.social · Jan 16

I'm deeply fortunate to have kind and thoughtful people in my life!

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Jessica (she/her) @jessicalikestea.bsky.social · Jan 16

A friend brought back this tea set and tea from Vietnam for me. Excited to fill it up and try the teas! #tea #teasky #teafeed

Vietnamese tea set with squared teapot and five small teacups on square saucers. The teaware is off-white with a dark blue lotus motif and the teapot has gold handles.

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Jessica (she/her) @jessicalikestea.bsky.social · Jan 15

Not a direct answer, but did you steep with boiling water for 10+ minutes? I've found herbal blends to need a longer steep time and I'm a bit generous with how much I put in the pot/brewing basket.

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Jessica (she/her) @jessicalikestea.bsky.social · Jan 13

Crimson Lotus Tea. Super nice people, super good tea. I like my sheng to be fresh and astringent and sweet vs highly fermented, So their Wild Sky is a current favorite.

Jessica (she/her) @jessicalikestea.bsky.social · Jan 13

Your set is super cute! There are a lot of great videos that walk through making matcha, Sugimoto has some (and good matcha) www.youtube.com/@SugimotoAme...

Sugimoto Tea Company

Welcome and thank you for checking out Sugimoto Tea Company’s YouTube Channel! Over three generations we have been working with and directly sourcing from Japanese tea farmers to produce authentic, de...

www.youtube.com

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Jessica (she/her) @jessicalikestea.bsky.social · Jan 13

Seeing this, kind of inspired to break out some Vietnamese dark tea from Anna Ye Tea.

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Jessica (she/her) @jessicalikestea.bsky.social · Jan 13

You might also like Mariage Freres, from Paris. Marco Polo is a best-seller but Black Opera is very flavorful and fragrant.

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