2025 Festival Sponsors
Festival Sponsor
Nepal Tea Collective
Nepal Tea Collective is a public benefit corporation on a mission to lift one million farmers out of poverty within their generation by selling their freshest and most delicious organic teas worldwide, while setting a new standard in tracebility and trasnparency.
Gold Sponsor
Simpson & Vail Inc.
Simpson & Vail Inc., one of the oldest Tea companies in the USA, is a family owned business dedicated to offering quality teas from around the world. We have over 375 teas (black, green, oolong, decaf, flavored, flowering, white and blends) as well as over 100 herbs and herbal blends. All our blends are hand crafted in our facility in Brookfield, CT in small batches to ensure freshness. Our blends include: dessert teas, literary teas, holiday teas, national park teas, wellness herbal blends, yoga "teas" and more.
Gold Sponsor
MEM TEA
Founded in 1999 by Mark Eli Mooradian, MEM TEA began sourcing, importing, and distributing high quality loose leaf tea to the food service and hospitality industry, while conducting thousands of tastings and trainings for cafes, restaurants, hotels, and nascent tea companies. We now provide extensive tea programs to over 1500 cafes, restaurants, and other businesses around New England and the U.S. We spend several hours each week tasting hundreds of samples to make sure we get the best teas for our needs, to keep our blends consistent, and to stay on top of the latest tea trends. We run our own tea shop and training center in North Cambridge, MA; and both our wholesale program (out of Wakefield, MA) and our tea shop showcase a large list of carefully sourced and blended products including tea lattes, matcha, and award-winning chai blends. On top of all that, our ambitious, creative, and passionate staff makes it hard not to fall in love with our company and products.
Bronze Sponsor
Chicago Teahouse
Chicago Teahouse is an iconic tea shop in the bustling city of Chicago, offering an unparalleled range of exceptional tea products and services to tea enthusiasts everywhere. With over 15 years of experience in the tea industry, Chicago Teahouse is a reliable source of premium tea blends that cater to a diverse array of tastes and preferences. Our offerings range in price, from affordable options for daily enjoyment to rare teas that are exclusively grown for us by some of the world’s finest tea estates. One of the things that sets us apart from other tea vendors is our commitment to ethical standards in the tea industry. We cultivate personal relationships with our tea growers and share their commitment to improving the lives of the people who produce our tea products.
Bronze Sponsor
Cambridge Naturals
Cambridge Naturals, founded in 1974 by Michael Kanter and Elizabeth Stagl. Our mission is to provide the best choices in natural wellness products (nutritional supplements, clean body care, organic foods, and healthy lifestyle supplies) and offer an amazing customer experience to our local community.
We are committed to sourcing products locally, organically, and ethically via fair trade and direct trade channels, and to donating a portion of our profits to social and environmental organizations that impact our community. As part of our vision for a more just, equitable and sustainable world, we strive to partner with businesses owned by women and historically-marginalized folks. We offer a curated selection of wonderful products, just for you!
Bronze Sponsor
K and K Chai
We are a specialty tea company in Northern California offering custom loose tea blends and premium single origin teas curated and handcrafted by our certified Tea Sommelier. Our top 3 products include multi award winning Japanese Matcha, our signature Minister Grey for the perfect London Fog, and the tea that started it all- our OG Masala Chai.