About Bamboo Leaf Tea
Bamboo has been a passion of mine for most of my life. Having been born in India I feel that the tropical essence of bamboo has been written in me since birth. It’s beauty, strength, and flexibility are guides to love and live by and I am always in awe of it’s versatility. From flooring to medicine bamboo’s uses are as diverse as it’s look. From giant timber bamboos to vine like creepers this plant is a true beauty with great function at it’s core.
I came to Florida to work for Walt Disney Imagineering on the Animal Kingdom project as an ornamental grass and bamboo specialist and never left. The tropical beauty of Florida was too much to leave and I decided to start my own bamboo farm just down the road from Disney. I have been growing and living with bamboo in Orlando since 1998, and while I love the beauty of the plant in the landscape I have been fascinated by the possibilities of functional uses.
In 2008 I began to explore the possibilities of working with bamboo as a food, a beverage, and a medicine. It has been a journey that has led me to use every part of the bamboo plant – the shoots, the leaves, stems, branches, outer culms, inner culms, inner-nodes, culm sheathes, and secondary roots. To date I have worked with over 50 varieties and am constantly exploring new realms of this plant. Each part of each plant creates a new unique extract and with that a never ending journey of knowledge.
