Name: Ultimate Classes- 2025 'taste & Tour 'tea Farm Workshops (may-sept) Collection [KNiF59Y4]
Brand: mappa-mercia.org
SKU: HBS14206078341
Price: 35.99 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.08 (258 reviews)

2025 Season 'Taste & Tour' Tea Farm Workshops

Sign up today! 10 workshops per growing season, and class size is intentionally limited to just 12 participants to keep intimate and allow for personalization. This is a most enjoyable and comprehensive deep dive into tea that everyone's been asking for over the years. We combined the content from our Tea 101 Class (history, preparation, tasting) and Tea Wellness Class (a head to toe health aspects and advanced tea tasting experience) into one workshop, then topped the experience off with an owner- guided walking farm tour of this award-winning, one of its kind business in North America. Come learn about this miracle of agriculture we call "tea". Tea has so much going for it, and you'll have have a blast fun slurping and exploring with other tea & nature lovers!

Itinerary: The plan is that we gather inside the teashop on arrival to check everyone in before heading out to enjoy class together inside our Yurt Classroom beginning at 10:30. We break for lunch/tailgating/picnic, then we re-group at 1:15 pm to begin farm tour. Our owner-guided farm tours are available exclusively to workshop attendees or by purchasing and making a reservation for a Private Farm Tour experience.

Important: Eat breakfast before arrival as we'll be kicking up your metabolism with Matcha smoothies and all the teas we'll be drinking. Please bring a water bottle, pack a hearty lunch/ snacks to enjoy during our break before farm tour. Wear comfortable shoes, and dress for weather, as our workshops are rain or shine. Class size is limited to just 12 students to keep workshop intimate & to allow for detailed questions. Classes fill up very quickly, so please register as early as possible to secure your seats. If for whatever reason you discover you are unable to attend the workshop and tour on the date you have registered for, you may transfer your ticket to another participant for that same day, but please understand that due to early sell out, workshop tickets are nonrefundable or transferrable to a different date. Register by May 5 for pre-season discount.

Read on for full class description...

Light of Day Organics, located here in the Leelanau Peninsula of Northern Michigan, is the only USDA Certified Organic and Certified Demeter Biodynamic Tea farm (grower of Camellia sinensis) also know as "tea" in North America. You'll learn why this is.

"Tea 101" Content:

The basics:

Biodynamic farm orientation
short history of tea
preparation instructions (how to make tea by the cup, pot, airpot, iced tea)
expansive tea tasting & sensory education of at least 6 loose leaf Teas (1 from each primary tea category) & Tisanes (naturally caffeine-free herbals), a Matcha green tea smoothie “shot”
Light of Day tea cupping notepad and pen provided for keeping notes
Be welcomed and oriented to our seasonal Retail Tea Shop prior to being led as a group to our Yurt classroom. We will remove our shoes and enter in sacred silence into this special place.
You will learn the history of tea in America, worldwide, and come to understand why Light of Day Organics is the only certified Organic and Demeter Biodynamic grower of Camellia sinensis in N. America.
You will learn the difference between, and most importantly TASTE ("cup",) White, Green Oolong, Black, Tisane/Herbal Teas & Matcha Green teas in a wonderful, unique setting on our farm.
Tea has so much going for it…and you’re going to have fun slurping your way through this wonderful and memorable class!
Bring someone special to share this experience with....this is a positive memory-making experience that you'll want to reflect on for years to come!

"Wellness Through Tea" Class Content:

Tea is a part of every culture around the globe, and is second only to water in worldwide beverage consumption. This very popular class is intended to teach you about the importance of reducing inflammation so that you can enjoy the very highest quality of life. This is a “game-changing” class for those in need of the “fast track” to wellness. You will be introduced to integrative holistic health principles that support a higher quality of life. Simple holistic healing tools will be demonstrated to help you effectively shift from suffering to peace through a daily “grounding” exercise, “forgiveness” exercise, and “asking” exercise.
During the farm tour, you will be inspired to broaden your awareness naturally occurring cycles and rhythms (perpetual Lunar calendar), heighten your sense of awareness and appreciation for the world around you, expand your understanding of the difference between conventional, USDA organic & Demeter Biodynamic regenerative agricultural practice/philosophy regarding respect & reverence of all life/all species, marveling even more deeply in our interconnectedness. We highly encourage this $30 farm tour add-on option available only to class participants.

Please come with an open heart, a clean palate, and wearing comfortable clothing.

Important: Please bring a water bottle, pack a lunch/ snacks to enjoy afterwards during our break before farm tours begin at 1 pm. Dress for weather. Rain or shine.

Tea has so much going for it…and you’re going to have fun slurping your way through this wonderful and memorable class!

Get ready for a wonderful experience!

Taught by Angela Macke, R.N and Horticulturalist- Founder of Light of Day Organics

About your Tea Guide, Angela Macke, R.N, B.S, MG-A

West Michigan native and Traverse area local since 1996, Angela Macke has almost 30 years of experience as a holistic Registered Nurse and Horticulturalist. In December 200e, she established Light of Day Organics, a popular small-batch Certified USDA Organic and Certified Demeter Biodynamic tea farm in Leelanau County. Angela is one of a handful of licensed practitioners specializing in homeopathic and energy-based Biodynamic Agricultural practices. These physically, mentally, and spiritually intensive efforts enhances soil vitality, botanical quality, and the interconnected life of which each of us is an essential part. She passionately teaches about the importance of preventing chronic diseases and decreasing inflammation in the body. Angela believes that by eliminating physical and emotional suffering, the human being is best supported in their expansion to their full potential. With the benefit of her own life experience from disease to wellness, she shares a wealth of information on the practical implementation of sound holistic principles. Angela is a licensed RN and holds certifications as a Specialty Tea Institute Graduate, Advanced Master Gardener and Mentor, and Healing Touch Program practitioner. Professional Memberships: American Holistic Nurses Association, U.S Tea Association, Biodynamic Association, Michigan Nursery, and Landscape Association, United Plant Savers, Michigan State Medical Society Alliance, Traverse City and Leelanau County Chambers of Commerce, Michigan Food and Farming Alliance, and The Michigan Agri-tourism Association. She is a dynamic speaker with a thorough understanding of alternative and conventional therapies. Angela is committed to igniting inspiration and hope in our individual abilities to improve and maintain our whole-body health.

INSPIRING REFLECTIONS FROM GREAT LAKES CULINARY STUDENTS AFTER CLASS:

“First off, Angela is the most sweet and enlightened soul. I’ve never left somewhere feeling so relaxed. She is such a sweet and kind person. Being in the tasting room and listening to her talk was so peaceful and beautiful. Another person I could listen to talk all day. Tasting all the teas the proper way as she talked about them, really opened up all my senses.”

“This was another unique and wonderful experience that we had with Angela from Light of Day Organics.”

“Angela from Light of Day delivered her lesson with passion and knowledge. I fell in love with their farming practices and would love to learn more about Biodynamic Farming. The tea was wonderful and I was excited to learn that there is no wrong way to brew or drink tea. I found the entire training peaceful and calm.”

“I really enjoyed our visit to LOD. Angela's passion for her business and tea in general was refreshing and contagious. Her suggestions on how to extend tea use beyond a straight beverage was inspiring and got the creative wheels moving in my head.”

“This was an exceptionally impactful experience for many reasons, namely due to the fact that I have been attempting to cut back my caffeine consumption for quite some time, but have never been successful due to having no suitable alternative. The amount of dedication and care that goes into the product Angela grows and processes on this farm really shows in all aspects of the finished product, and I hope to revisit the farm very soon to show more people just how remarkable tea really can be.”

“Chef I have to say thank you so much for getting us the opportunity to have the tasting and tour at Light of Day, it was one of the coolest things I’ve done. I really enjoyed listening to everything Angela had to say and how tea has a big impact health wish for us. Angela has inspired me to give drinking tea a try for all the awesome health benefits I could get.”

“ Light of Day is really an amazing place in North America and Traverse City is blessed to have such a wonderful and environmentally safe business. This is a business that I will be certainly looking up to.”

“I have been patiently waiting two years for this specific tea training. When I found out back then that the Restaurant class got to visit and train with her, I knew that it was going to be an amazing experience. Angela opened my eyes to the amount of work that should be going into the foods that we serve.”

“I was so pumped when I heard we were going to learn about tea at an actual tea farm, it was definitely a highlight of my time here at GLCI. I was shocked to hear that Angela’s tea farm is the only Organic certified and Demeter tea farm in all of North America. She really creates a quality product, each one was more flavorful and aromatic than any tea bag I would purchase at the grocery store.”

“Visiting Light of Day Organics was by far the most eye opening tour I have ever experienced. Angela was such an amazing, inspiring women, owner, mother, nurse, human and I aspire to be more like her. It was such a calming experience.”

" I had the pleasure of attending your instructional tea class for the GLCI this afternoon. Let me just start by saying I am incredibly grateful to have been able to tour your farm today, and thank you so very much for all of your hospitality. It was an experience that has stuck in my mind as one of the most uplifting things to have happened in my life this year, and my loved ones cannot wait to visit the grounds as the flames have been sufficiently fanned by stories of this ethereal place."