T Ching Contributing Writer
Diane Walden has been in the tea business since 2007, when she became part-owner in three tea stores, two of which continued until 2016 and were sold. She and her husband also ran their own tea shop in her hometown in Southern California for almost five years before moving the business online. Always interested in the brewing importance of the tea experience, the couple licensed a commercial brewer to a coffee and tea equipment manufacturer recently and are hoping it will be on the market in the future.
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Posts by Diane Walden
- The “Teas” of Business (6/28/2022)
- Rooibos and Other Herbal Adventures (5/2/2022)
- Top 5 Tea Types (4/6/2022)
- Cantaloupe, Lime, and Black Tea Smoothie (2/15/2022)
- How to Start a Tea Company (12/13/2021)
- Iced Tea Lattes (11/16/2021)
- Honeydew, Lime, and Rooibos Smoothie (10/13/2021)
- How To Brew Loose Green Tea (9/15/2021)
- How To Brew Easy Loose Leaf Tea (8/16/2021)
- How To Make Barista-Style Shaken Iced Tea (7/22/2021)
- How To Brew Loose Leaf Indian Tea: Assam & Darjeeling (6/22/2021)
- How To Brew Loose Green Tea with Local Honey (4/20/2021)
- How To Make Your Loose Tea Stay Fresh Longer (3/17/2021)
- How to Brew Loose Pu Erh Tea (1/28/2021)
- How to Brew Rooibos (12/23/2020)
- Authentic Irish Breakfast Tea & Irish Scones (11/30/2020)
- Loose Leaf Tea Chai Latte at Home (10/28/2020)
- How to Brew Loose Leaf Tea: Tea or Herbal? (9/16/2020)
- How to Buy Loose Tea & Not Get ‘Burned’! (8/18/2020)
- How To Brew Green Tea With No Bitterness (7/15/2020)
- How to Brew Loose Tea: Oolong, the ‘Mysterious’ Tea (6/17/2020)
- Amazing Earl Grey Tea (5/14/2020)
- Moving on in business (3/21/2017)
- The Amazing Revolution of the Afternoon Tea (1/25/2017)
- A Holiday Tea Party (12/29/2016)
- Tea; How Some Tea Traditions Can Bridge a Gap And Bring Us Together (11/17/2016)
- New Consumer Innovations in the ‘Hot’ Tea Marketplace (11/2/2016)
- Merrill J. Fernando, Dilmah Tea – A Sri Lankan Tea Hero (10/3/2016)
- Finally…Good Tea in Food Service (8/25/2016)
- From Teaopia to CitizenTea (7/28/2016)
- Flavoring Tea at Home with Home-Grown Herbals (6/29/2016)
- Weather and Tea (5/24/2016)
- 18 Tea Franchises… Or Are They? (4/28/2016)
- Tea in the Kitchen: More Than Just a Cuppa (3/24/2016)
- One Lump or 25: What’s In Your Specialty Tea Beverage? (3/2/2016)
- Long-Term Payoffs (1/19/2016)
- The Elusive Tea Retail Concept (12/14/2015)
- Dragonwell: When it’s Good, it’s Really Good! (11/16/2015)
- It’s the Spiciest Time of the Year! (10/26/2015)
- The Tea Family (10/8/2015)
- What Does Your Business Say About You? (8/31/2015)
- Opening a Tea Store… Is That Your Dream? Part 2 (7/28/2015)
- Opening a Tea Store… Is That Your Dream? Part 1 (7/21/2015)
- Tea Goes Public (6/25/2015)
- We All Love Tea, We May Just See It Differently (6/4/2015)
- Tea infused candy the next big thing? (5/7/2015)
- The next wave for tea? (3/30/2015)
- Mom, me, and tea (2/24/2015)
- Inquiring minds ask questions about specialty tea (1/26/2015)
- tea in a coffee world (12/16/2014)
- One-minute tea brewers: part 2 (11/10/2014)
- By-the-cup commercial brewers – here they come! (10/7/2014)
- Tea in the garden (9/1/2014)
- Convenience over everything? (7/22/2014)
- Walking the floor . . . over tea (6/18/2014)
- Tea and . . . honey? (5/22/2014)
- Where are they now? (4/29/2014)
- Famous people drinking tea (3/19/2014)
- Earl Grey: a classic with a long history (2/26/2014)
- Exciting times for tea (1/30/2014)
- ‘Tis the season to be creative with tea! (12/24/2013)
- Never make a tea assumption! (11/26/2013)
- The connectivity of tea (10/23/2013)
- From a coffee family to a tea lifestyle (9/19/2013)
- Are you a “tea snob,” or do you just love great tea? (8/22/2013)
- A tea party in a shark tank (7/26/2013)
- Tea with a local twist (6/26/2013)
- The retail tea journey: Finding our new home (12/28/2012)
- Moving on with tea (12/3/2012)
- Our customers are our business (11/1/2012)
- Life’s oxidation process (10/1/2012)
- Green rooibos – A gem (9/3/2012)
- Too much information, not enough tea (8/1/2012)
- Bottling tea (7/2/2012)
- The day China Daily came calling (5/2/2012)
- “Black tea, please, because I need more caffeine” (4/3/2012)
- Dr. TV’s influence on tea (3/2/2012)
- Protecting your tea business’ intellectual property (8/17/2010)
- Happy second birthday to us: A tea retailer’s saga (7/20/2010)
- An interview with Tavalon Tea’s CEO John-Paul Lee (4/27/2010)
- Passion tempered (11/12/2009)