The seek to the steep: How a Revelstoke couple forages tea for their farming business
Money may not grow on trees, but tea does.
The couple’s path to being a farming and foraging duo was not entirely linear. Marotte was an executive chef and Twaits a stylist with a second job at a pizza place. Tired of the daily rat race, they packed up their lives in 2019, and with Marotte’s extensive forestry knowledge, the farm was born. In the beginning, they foraged mushrooms full-time. Stumbling on the plants for tea was a fluke and at first, was just something the two enjoyed for themselves.
“We started also growing berries and kind of concocting our own tea, but now it’s evolved into, very simply, only nettle or only mint and so on. Once we decided foraging isn’t going to pay the bills year-round, we started a farm and the foraging and tea is just our dry stock,” she said.The foraging process begins, of course, in nature. Twaits and Marotte walk in the surrounding forests and find patches of plants that can be used for tea.
Once collected, the tea leaves need to dry. Twaits said that drying can be done by hanging it or even dehydrating it, but it can’t be too hot or it will damage the plant.
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