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    Omu, The Strong
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Sep 4, 2021
    • 1 min

    Omu, The Strong

    Arriving to a new camp and homestead, Omu sets about going through an unending list of ‘musts’. One of the musts is securing tent ‘fly’...
    Leaf Journeys, Leaf Ageing, and the Heights
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Aug 3, 2021
    • 1 min

    Leaf Journeys, Leaf Ageing, and the Heights

    It was upon the months' long journeys along the Tea Horse Road that the big-leafed 'assamica' material and eternal panacea, tea, would...
    Pomo - The Girl Who Could Do it All
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Jun 30, 2021
    • 1 min

    Pomo - The Girl Who Could Do it All

    'Cheshi' in the early morning in her family’s nomadic camp of Shin’zhu’gong at close to 5000 metres. I continually messed up her name,...
    The Tea Sessions' Latest Column - Masters wear Flip-Flops
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Jun 9, 2021
    • 1 min

    The Tea Sessions' Latest Column - Masters wear Flip-Flops

    Few have had quite the leaf influence upon me, as has Mr. Gao (aka Dr. Gao, Master Gao, or just Master). From his understated approach to...
    Interview with Tea Biz - Informality shouldn't be lost
    Jeff Fuchs
    • May 24, 2021
    • 1 min

    Interview with Tea Biz - Informality shouldn't be lost

    A few thoughts shared in a recent interview with Tea Biz here. In the great rush of tea paraphernalia and in the increasingly creative...
    A Pass, The 'Feel', and Karma's Chai
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Apr 27, 2021
    • 1 min

    A Pass, The 'Feel', and Karma's Chai

    The mind wanders back to a pass, a blizzard, and that wonderful thing that exists still: instinct. On a day of few words along a portion...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - The Tea That Never Came
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Mar 26, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - The Tea That Never Came

    A simple tea room in Weishan, Yunnan, and one of the only tea rooms in my life that I failed to actually have tea in. Weishan was another...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Part Goat and a Little Part Human
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Mar 9, 2021
    • 2 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Part Goat and a Little Part Human

    Over the course of years since meeting Dorjè I’ve written and pondered much about him. “Part goat and a little part human” was how he was...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Choices, No Choices, and some Courage
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Mar 7, 2021
    • 2 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Choices, No Choices, and some Courage

    Ascending up to the Sho La Pass in northwestern Yunnan in May there would always be a chance of weather issues, but it would still be a...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Tea and Bloodlines
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Feb 27, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Tea and Bloodlines

    On foot our team of four puttered and wandered west (often faintly lost) through the Nyanqen Tanghla mountains in Tibet towards Lhasa....
    Tea Horse Chronicles - The Bend
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Feb 21, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Chronicles - The Bend

    It was here at the ‘first bend of the Yangtze’, at Shigu, in Yunnan province that the Mongolian armies of the Yuan Dynasty crossed the...
    The Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Remnants
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Feb 19, 2021
    • 1 min

    The Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Remnants

    Within the tidy remnants of a former ‘Tea and Horse Trade Office’ in Mingshan County, near Ya’an in Sichuan, Jamyan and I wandered for 25...
    Tea Horse Chronicles - Fields vs Forests
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Feb 9, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Chronicles - Fields vs Forests

    Blankets and ridges of green stimulant leaf lie in rows near Puerh. Here the leaf is entirely industry. Gorgeous industry, but still...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Way Out, and Out Again
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Jan 28, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Way Out, and Out Again

    Yeshi and I shared tea with this old memory palace of time. Goat milk and butter were used instead of yak variations. The tea was deadly...
    Tea Horse Chronicles - Blessings and Warnings
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Jan 23, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Chronicles - Blessings and Warnings

    It was from this patch of grassland near Napa Lake, just north of my home in Dukezong (old town of 'Shangrila') that our expedition...
    Tea Horse Chronicles - Tea's Value
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Jan 14, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Chronicles - Tea's Value

    “Tea is our everything. I don’t know where it comes from but we take it every day in the morning, afternoon, and night. Our children...
    Tea Horse Chronicles - The Hostess, The Keeper
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Jan 7, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Chronicles - The Hostess, The Keeper

    A nomadic hostess (nemo) offers up a smile to our sun and grime battered crew near Ala Jagung, Tibet. The smile that comes from living so...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Jokhang Boys
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Jan 5, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - Jokhang Boys

    After 52 days of trekking from my then home in Zhongdian (aka: Shangrila/Jiantang/Gyalthang) in northwestern Yunnan, a small celebration...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - A Gathering of Women
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Jan 2, 2021
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - A Gathering of Women

    Nomadic women of Ganze gather on a grassland to take part in a horse festival. It was through and over such high grasslands that the Tea...
    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - The Pluck
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Dec 30, 2020
    • 1 min

    Tea Horse Road Chronicles - The Pluck

    Napu went up the tea tree amid a forest of tea trees, shimmying along a support branch, until she could access the buds and leaves two...
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