Yogi Tea
Yogi Tea creates and manufactures a wide variety of premium teas, including green, herbal, black and red tea. Yogi Tea is part of [Golden Temple of Oregon], LLC, which also manufactures Peace Cereal, Sweet Home Farm, and Golden Temple bulk granola. Golden Temple employs about 300 people in the United States and Europe, with offices in Eugene and Portland, Oregon, and in Hamburg, Germany. The company is privately held.
History
The Yogi Tea Company was founded in 1982 as an outgrowth of the Golden Temple Vegetarian Restaurant in West Hollywood, California. Yogi Tea was founded by Ranbir Singh Bhai, Owner of Golden Temple Restaurant in W.Hollywood, California who is a son of Yogi Bhajan and his partners Guru Simiran Singh Khalsa and Sadasat Singh Khalsa ( former students of Yogi Bhajan). Restaurant would prepare a blend of tea containing cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, ginger and black pepper (the basic ingredients found in chai a popular south-Asian tea) which the Bhajan's yoga students and Restaurant devotees dubbed “Yogi tea”. The tea was so popular at Golden Temple Vegetarian Restaurant that they started packaging it.[1]
In 1987, Ranbir singh Bhai and his partners donated Yogi tea Company stocks for life time employment guarantee by Yogi Bhajan to Sikh Dharama, a Non Profit, Yogi Bhajan founded in New Mexico. [2]
Over time the company introduced new blends and lines, such as Healing Formula teas in 1991. Also in 1991, the company started making its teas from organic ingredients. The company eventually expanded from herbal teas to include blends of black and green teas, too.
Since 2000, the boxes have featured illustrations by Seva Kaur. The illustrations are based on a devotional poem or prayer found on the inside of the box. The illustrations found on the Chai, Woman's, and Exotic Teas, are done by Latvian artist Anita Kreituse. The boxes use vegetable based inks and dyes, and non-irradiated recycled carton materials.[3]
Product
The company produces over 50 blends of tea. These include medicinal teas, green teas, beverage teas, women's teas, chais and red teas. All the blends contain organic ingredients, but due to a lack of availability of some organic ingredients not all blends are entirely organic. Yogi Botanicals, who has a prohibition on GMOs, organizes the growing and distribution of the organic herbs and spices required for the teas and Quality Assurance International acts as a third party certifier. The tea bags are oxygen bleached and recyclable. Currently, 17 Yogi Teas are certified organic, but all contain organic ingredients in variable proportion. The company sources 63 organic herbs and spices and Yogi Teas are developed and produced at the company’s modern manufacturing facility in Eugene, Oregon.[4]
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Footnotes
1. www.yogibotanicals.com
2.www.yogitea.com
3. www.yogitea.com
4. www.yogitea.com