Farmerleaf
Farmerleaf Jingmai
Small family factory at Jingmai Dazhai (Lancang) run by Yubai and William Osmont, selling through its own retail arm Farmerleaf.
- Kind
- workshop
- Based in
- Jingmai Mountain
- Founded
- 2010
- Brands
- Farmerleaf
- 景域天香 (Jing Yu Tian Xiang)
History#
- 2010Yubai sets up the factory in the family house at Jingmai.
- 2011First online shop (bannacha.com) opened.
- 2015Cakes pressed under the 景域天香 label.
- 2016Farmerleaf brand created.
- 2020Tea shop opened in Pu'er city.
Also sold or written as 10#
Chinese variants
- 景域天香(Jǐng Yù Tiān Xiāng)Yubai's own cake label from 2015; Farmerleaf calls itself the sister brand.
- 景迈家庭茶厂Jingmai family tea factory
- 景邁家庭茶廠Jingmai family tea factory
- 景邁の家族経営茶工場Jingmai family tea factory
Translations and trade names
- Farmerleaf
- Farmer Leaf
- Bannacha (bannacha.com)France-based online shop from 2011, the forerunner of Farmerleaf; now defunct.
- Farmerleaf (Jingmai family tea factory)
- Farmerleaf (Teemanufaktur am Jingmai)
Russian
- Farmerleaf (чайная мастерская на горе Цзинмай)
Names and ambiguities#
Notes#
This producer record covers the Jingmai factory and its pressings. Farmerleaf is also the vendor 'farmerleaf', which resells some teas from other producers (black, oolong, green and white). The factory sits on the ground floor of Yubai's family house in Jingmai Dazhai (景迈大寨), Jingmai village, Huimin Township, Lancang County. It is small: two wood-fired woks, a rolling machine, bamboo baskets and mats, and a greenhouse for drying in the rain. Pu'er is processed by hand there, along with some Moonlight White, black and oolong.
Yubai founded the factory to support her family's tea business; it began pressing cakes under her own label 景域天香 in 2015. William Osmont opened bannacha.com to sell pu'er to Western customers in 2011, and the pair created Farmerleaf in 2016. The office and storehouse are in Pu'er city, about three hours away, where a shop opened in 2020. They make tea at Jingmai each spring and autumn from ancient gardens and younger ecological plantations, and some gardens near the house are partly run by relatives. William documents the processing on Farmerleaf's YouTube channel.