Our Decelera Teas trace their roots to two meanings: in the Latin term celeritas meaning related to speed or swiftness, as well as the vegetable celery, known in early Italian as di sceleri, which originally comes from selinon, a Greek Parsley meant to be eaten or chewed slowly for its therapeutic purposes and medicinal benefits.
Our Decelera Tea library works with principles of slowing speed to offer good medicine for our plants, and also for ourselves, in a fresh and timely fashion.
Our Crooked Farmz CSA subscription package includes the following four teas, each with a common extraction and brewing process but with unique micro-amendments suitable for the time of the season: MYCO, FLORA, AQUA and ENDO.
1. MYCO
(Late May – Early June)
STRUCTURE/EMERGENCE: A tea brimming with mycelium potential to begin the growing season, designed to promote the mycorrhizal activity and fungal growth required to generate stronger soil-root structures (rhizosphere) and an overall healthier plant later in the summer.
2. FLORA
(Early-Mid July)
BALANCE/VITALITY: As plants really begin to take root, strengthen, fruit and flower, a tea supplemented with additional organic ingredients from the local ecology to develop the more complex harmonies necessary for vigorous growth and increased resistance to pests.
3. AQUA
(Early-Mid August)
ENERGY/AQUATICS: This phase of the season is about maximizing the nutrients and water in our soil to nourish healthy fruits, vegetables, and perennials. This tea emphasizes our connection to the deep time of lakes and oceans with an abundance of fish and seaweed matter for amendments.
4. ENDO
(Mid-Late Sept)
ENDURANCE/CIRCULARITY: An echo of renewal in a balanced mix to extend vegetables during our increasingly long summers, quickly turn around space for fresh succession plantings of winter-hardy crops, prepare the soil for garlic or overwintering bulbs, or simply give thanks to the earth at the end o’ the season.
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