Justly Made Tea
Join us in creating sustainable impact in Kenya!
JusTea offers the first farmer-direct tea from Kenya! We travel to Kenya partnering directly with families, this means you receive the freshest tea possible and the farmer receives a fair wage.
Why JusTea doesn't sell 100 different teas?
JusTea’s mission is to create sustainable employment for small-scale Kenyan farmers. We don’t offer 100 different teas like Matcha, Ceylon, or Darjeeling, because these teas simply don’t grow in Kenya. All of the teas we offer contain 100% Kenyan ingredients (or as many ingredients as we can get from Kenya) so you can trace the impact back to the farmer. Check out our teas here.
Award-Winning Whole Leaf Tea
While most tea companies put ground up teas into teabags, JusTea exclusively offers whole leaf tea. This results in a more delicious and much fuller flavour. Every JusTea leaf is hand-picked in the garden to select the best quality and maintain the whole leaf quality. JusTea is not just a feel good story, our teas taste amazing and have won numerous awards. Have a taste here.
Women’s Tea Co-op
JusTea is the first North-American partner for this cooperative's organic herbal teas. Over 80% of the employees are women and they support hundreds of farmers in their community! Meet some of the JusTeam members.
Our Story
There is a Swahili saying commonly used in Kenya, “Pole Pole”, which translates to “slowly slowly”. Whether used for Nairobi traffic jams, or waiting for the pot to boil water for Chai, this saying also speaks to the process of developing JusTea's partnership with Kenyan tea farmers.
Most people don’t know it, but Kenya is actually the largest exporter of Black Tea in the world! There are over half-a-million small-scale Kenyan tea farmers. Unfortunately, when these farmers harvest their tea leaves their only option is to sell them at a low price to large-scale factories. We first learned of this farmer hardship on our initial trip to Kenya in 2012. We spent a week with Davison and Grace on their one-acre “shamba” and heard from them and their neighbours that they were going to have to uproot their tea bushes because their tea earnings did not provide them with basic family needs – food, water, sanitation, and education.
After many trips to Kenya, meeting with farmers, researching the tea industry, and consulting with NGOs on the ground, we knew there could be a different experience for Kenyan tea farmers and tea drinkers around the world. Since 2012, we have partnered with the Katah family and the Nandi Hills community to establish Kenya’s first-ever “Artisanal Tea Cottage Factory” owned and managed by small-scale tea farmers! We are leading the research and processing of new Kenyan teas (like Purple Tea!) but more importantly we are paying fair-prices for farmers tea leaves and creating steady employment where there wasn’t any before.
Asante Sana…thank-you for joining our cause! Learn more about our sustainability impact or shop JusTea.