Thursday, July 12, 2012

Packaging

I am constantly amazed by the number of minute details that go into starting a business.  For example, packaging and labeling our product.

How big should the bags be?  What color?  Eco-Friendly?  How much do they cost?  How many should we order?  The list of questions and decisions is infinite.

Once we had the bags.  We had to decided how to label them.  The world of stickers and labeling is daunting and very expensive.  So, in the end we decided to use stamps and black ink.  Not only do they look great but it's super fun to hand stamp every bag of tea we sell.  Plus, each one is unique, which we think is beautiful.

Some bags hand stamped with love from us.

Hand stamped by T and F.  Can't get over how awesome the bags look!

Art.

The team.  Hopefully there will be more in the future

Don't forget these bags are compostable.  Just remove the tin tie and throw in the compost pile.
We hope you enjoy looking at our product as much as we do.  Ultimately, this handsome, yet inexpensive labeling choice allows us to offer a superior product at a very low price.

In other news, we just ordered an industrial spice grinder.  This will allow us to increase our production.  Also, we are working on getting our website up.  So stay tuned for that...

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Almost There!!!


Boco Tea is almost up and running!  We have ordered 98% of our herbs and all of the supplies we need to make and sell our tea.  Once we get everything in, we will be ready to sell!

Forest busting into a huge box of herbs.
In fact, our living room feels a bit like a warehouse right now.  On the plus side, our apartment smells amazing!


Buckets full of herbs.

Biodegradable bags.
Last week we ordered over 100 pounds of herbs, green tea, and black tea.  Since our main source for ingredients was out of a few things, we had to find alternate companies to order a few things.  We also still need to finalize our rooibos, and lemon myrtle order.  Once the herbs arrive, we put them in food safe buckets to keep the herbs fresh for as long as possible.  After that, the hard work begins.

Black Peppercorns.

Some of the herbs need to be crushed to a specific size before we can blend tea with them.  This is done by hand.  Then, we are finally ready to blend some tea!

Our first large scale batch of Chamomile Lime tea was a success!

All of this needs to be done by July 28th- the first day of the Rocky Mountain Tea Festival.  We have signed up to have a booth, where we will be selling all of our teas to people at the market.  In preparation for this, we bought a 10x10 canopy and have been working on how we want our booth to look.  

Fun with our stickers.

Who knew how much work it would take to bring you guys tea.  Good thing we love our work!

Forest enjoying some Chamomile Lime tea.

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Welcome!


Welcome to Boco Tea's blog!  This is our attempt to provide those who are interested, with fun, and hopefully interesting pictures, thoughts, and updates about our company.

Based in Boulder Colorado, Boco Tea is a very small organic loose leaf tea company run by identical twin brothers, Forest and Taylor Roy.  Currently, we offer 13 herbal teas, 6 black teas, and 4 green teas.  All of our tea is hand made and blended in small batches to ensure the highest quality, freshness, and flavor.   

Below is a quick video about us and our company.  Enjoy!


We want to create a community behind our company.  So please leave comments and ask questions.  We will respond to them as soon as we can.  Thanks!