Pao Tea’s mission is to explore the art of tea and share their findings with tea enthusiasts everywhere. Pao Tea sources their teas from small, family-owned and -operated farms in the mountains of China. These growers are family friends, and thus, Pao Tea is able to maintain relationships and ensure optimal working conditions for their suppliers. In return, they share centuries-old techniques on how to grow, harvest and brew tea.

Pao Tea offers all-natural, no-ingredients-added tea to be brewed and appreciated the way it was meant to be. All of their varieties are whole-leaf teas, as they believe whole-leaf tea better maintains its flavor and effects, and they come in bags of loose leaf or in tea lemons or mandarins.

In an effort to give back and help support the small Chinese village where Pao Tea is farmed, the company donates proceeds and product to a local, volunteer-based vegan/ vegetarian kitchen dedicated to serving free meals to the elder community - a population often unable to provide or cook for themselves.