Northwest Tea Festival Sponsors 2009

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Northwest Tea Festival 2009 Sponsors:

Choice Organic Teas

Founded in 1989, Seattle's own Choice Organic Teas has helped to forge new ground in the tea industry from the very start. As the first exclusively certified organic tea company in the United States and the first US tea company to introduce Fair Trade Certified Teas, we’re committed to quality, sustainability, and responsibility in everything we do.

Our mission is to provide high quality teas while continuing to lead the industry towards more social and environmental sustainability with thoughtfully produced, innovative products and packaging.

Visit www.choiceorganicteas.com for more information.

Whole Foods Market

Your leading Natural and Organic retailer since 1980!

With four Seattle locations and more on the way be sure to stop in to anyone of our stores for all your healthy living needs!

Visit www.wholefoodsmarket.com for a location near you!

Perennial Tea Room

From tea cozies to collectible tea pots, from imported English tea bags to estate teas in bulk and tea supplies, the Perennial Tea Room offers teas from around the world and a wide variety of tea supplies.

Since 1990 we have "served" the tea community of the US, in person and by mail, from our location in Post Alley, in the Historic Pike Place Market in downtown Seattle, Washington.

Visit www.perennialtearoom.com/ for more information!

Barnes & Watson Fine Teas

Barnes & Watson Fine Teas is dedicated to providing the freshest handcrafted teas for our customers. Each tea we import and blend is cupped for quality and consistency in flavor at several stages before leaving our facility. We sample teas from many estates around the world to find a selection of teas offering the highest quality.

Barnes & Watson Fine Teas® has received many honors over the past 18 years. These honors include 15 awards from the 2005 – 2009 World Tea Championships, with our 2009 entry, Golden Leaf Selections Jade Oolong, taking FIRST PLACE, and in 2008, our Star Spangled Herbal and Emerald Blossom teas both were rated in the top five. Our client list includes hospitality clients such as the Tom Douglas Restaurants in Seattle, The Fairmont in San Francisco, The Phoenician Resort in Phoenix, and The Conrad Hilton in Chicago.

In addition to our second to none iced teas and loose leaf hot teas, we offer a total of fifteen hot teas in tea bags. Each teabag will brew a generous twelve-ounce cup of delicious hot tea. These teabags are an unsurpassed offering of whole leaf tea in a teabag. Most teabags contain fannings and dust, which do not yield the quality our brand provides. We offer a full service Exper-teas™ iced tea program with four iced tea flavors, equipment and service available to suit your needs.

Visit www.barnesandwatson.com for more information!

Simpson & Vail

Here at Simpson & Vail, the Harron family's mission is to uphold the highest standards in quality, service and value, in order to best serve you, our faithful customers.

We are dedicated to bringing you the finest quality, most health conscious products available at the fairest prices.

Visit www.svtea.com for more information!

Northwest Folklife

Northwest Folklife creates opportunities for individuals and communities of the Pacific Northwest to celebrate, share and sustain the vitality of folk, ethnic and traditional arts for present and future generations.

Northwest Folklife carries out its mission in a variety of ways, most notably through the annual production of the free Northwest Folklife Festival.

Visit http://www.nwfolklife.org/ for more information!

KBCS - 91.3 FM

KBCS-FM is a listener supported, non-commercial, community radio station, operated as a public service of Bellevue Community College. Our purpose is to entertain, educate and involve a diverse community of listeners with a variety of music, cultural and public affairs programs.

Most of our hosts are community volunteers. Our programming takes you on a musical exploration from jazz, blues, and folk to modern global hip hop, electronica, reggae, and dub. We present Democracy Now!, The Takeaway, The Michael Eric Dyson show and other cultural and public affairs programs. KBCS is the only station in the Greater Seattle Area that offers ongoing training opportunities.

Visit http://kbcs.fm/site/PageServer for more information!