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Handmade
in
Chicago
Hippie Teas
organic
herbal tea
Since
1991
5% donated to Saving
Bees and
Pollinators!
Est 1991
Free Shipping on Orders over $75!
Hippie Teas
The Tea for Bees
Welcome!
HIPPIE TEAS
We are still the same Hippocrateas Organic Tea company. The good for bees tea company! We're just a little easier to spell and pronounce now. Hey now Hippie Teas!
Let Food be thy medicine,
and medicine be thy Food.
Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine
Creating herbal teas since 1991.
The Tea for Bees
We donate 5% to protecting bees!
Farmers that Protect Bees and Humans
We source our ingredients from farmers growing organic, biodynamic and nonGMO plants. We only source the best and finest natural organic ingredients for all of our products. This is because farming methods greatly influence our health. They not just affect human health, though they affect all the animals, plants, bees, and pollinators too! Toxins used in other farming techniques shift the whole planet toward disease. For this reason we will always be 100% organic.
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Our teas are:
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100% certified organic
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Bee and Pollinator Friendly
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Health Friendly!
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Compostable
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Biodegradable
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Organic
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Nontoxic
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NonGMO
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Our teas never contain added sugar or additives of any kind!
From farming methods to the packaging, everything about Hippocrateas is organic, nonGMO, biodegradable, compostable, nontoxic, earth-friendly goodness. We do this to benefit your health and the planet.
Bring the outside in. Did you know drinking herbal tea is one of the most magical ways to absorb the benefits plants and herbs bring to us? Just please use purified water to make tea:) Happy tea time!
Our Story
Let Food be thy medicine,
and medicine be thy Food.
Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine
A Magical Awakening
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Hippocrateas began way in 1991, an exploration born of necessity.
From the Founder's bio,
It was like walking through a magical portal. This whole new world beckoned before her. She discovered the unusual world of biodynamic and organically grown food, macrobiotics, seaweed, and medicinal herbs.
Emblazoned on the store's wall was Hippocrates famous inspiring quote:
"Let Food be thy medicine, and Medicine be thy food." Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine.
Joanna knew her life would never be the same.
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She rehabbed her diet, went full organic, sugar free, dairy free, and vegetarian at the time, vegan as well, for a while. She felt renewed and fell in love with this holistic lifestyle. Her studyies began, the connections between disease and toxins in food, water, products... Before going back to school, she moved back to her hometown and was assistant to an holistic doctor specializing Chinese medicinal herbal teas. Her passion to help people prevent disease continued growing. Her studies turned into articles and essays, and eventually a book-- detailing the problems with food and our modern farming system.
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Through her own style of detective work, she became a self-taught environmental epidemiologist-- a field that was just dawning at colleges across the country while she was working her way through college.
She graduated with a bachelor's in Ecology from College of the Atlantic; and later, a master's degree in Education from DePaul. She began teaching elementary school in Chicago and continued writing about these public health issues. It was with great pleasure she met with the late Dr. Samuel Epstein, the world's foremost environmental epidemiologist and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois Chicago. He inspired her to keep writing and follow in his footsteps. He authored the critically acclaimed public health essentials What's In Your Milk?, and the Politics of Cancer.
WHY HIPPIE TEAS IS BEST
for you and the planet
PASSION
We are passionate about wholistic organic nutrition and herbal medicine. We've been committed to organic farming since 1990.
We Save the Bees
A portion of our profits go to helping save the bees and pollinators. To proect people, this is crucial. Saving pollinators will save the natural food supply. Bees and pollinators are dying primarily from exposure to toxins found in farming & gardening: chemical pesticides, synthetic harmful fertilizers, and fungicides.
MOST SUSTAINABLE
We are the most sustainable tea company anywhere.
All our teas, wrapping and packaging is biodegradable, compostable, and nontoxic.
You and Nature
Nature can change your life. Hippocrateas brings nature to you in a most nourishing way, through herbal tea infusions.
With You and the Earth in Mind
Our teas are created with your health and the wellness of our planet in mind.
All Natural
We care about your health. Protecting your health equates with protecting the earth as well. Our teas contain no additives and nothing artificial, no sugar, no artificial flavors.
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Exclusive Recipes
our recipes are designed in house-- unique, original, and not available anywhere else.
100% Organic
All our teas are made with only organic ingredients, no sugar and nothing artificial added.
Small Business with a Purpose
We are a small business with a purpose to help humanity and the planet as a whole. Every cup you drink helps us help everyone. Thank you.
TOGETHER
We collaborate with like-minded people and organizations who have your's, your family and the earth's best interest at heart.
Help us reach our goal to get our first tea truck so we can provide free hot tea to the homeless in Chicago.
HAND CRAFTED RECIPES
Hippocrateas creates small batch, hand crafted
organic herbal infusions designed to restore,
nourish, and protect. All of our herbal recipes are unique and designed in house, and not found anywhere else.
We also now provide organic fair trade certified
traditional teas, many with special herbal notes added.
Our teas are 100% organic, free of GMOs and never with any sugar added or anything artificial, just 100% goodness.
PACKAGING
Packaging matters. That's why our teas are provided in glass mason jars that are reusable and collectible. We don't use any toxic materials in any step of our processing. Our labels are designed with recycled kraft paper and nontoxic glue. We've actually moved away from labeling the jars to save even more paper,
so just the lids will have the label.
And if you wish to have your tea in tea bags we only use unbleached biodegradable tea bags free of glue, adhesives and plastic! Our teabags may not be fancy like some of the nylon ones you'll find by other commercial tea brands, but we care more about doing right by the environment than looking fancy. We keep it simple and natural, good for you good for bees! To us, if it doesn't biodegrade and isn't compostable we won't use it. To us, every step matters; we don't overlook even the basics. We are committed to your health as well as the health of all creatures on this planet.
SOURCING
Hippocrateas will always only be made with plants grown as nature intended. Our teas will never contain hazardous synthetic chemicals found in fertilizer or pesticides, nor anything artificial, no added sugar, and definitely no GMOs.
We're dedicated to providing you and your family with teas and herbal infusions created from the best ingredients available. The best cannot be compromised, and the farming methods and entire process must be sustainable, organic and free of pesticides. Until we have our own organic farm,
we will continue to use plants from farms
and growers we trust.
Say NO to Pesticides means saying no to GMOs.
Learn more about Mountain
GIVING BACK
Hippocrateas donates 5% of our profits to protect the Bees and pollinators that make healthy food possible.
Our health depends on their survival.
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Through protecting the planet, we protect ourselves.
Organizations we support include:
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Gilda's Club of Chicago, The Rachel Carson Council
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The Pesticide Action Network, The V Foundation,
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the Walter Payton Foundation,
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Organic Consumers Association,
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Natural Resources Defense Council, The Sierra Club,
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OUTSIDE IN
Because we all encounter toxins in this modern world and are at risk of various health challenges, everything we can do to help nourish and strengthen our immune system is valid.
Through Hippocrateas we offer the gifts from nature to you safely and soundly.
WHO WAS HIPPOCRATES?
"Let food by thy medicine and medicine be thy food." Known throughout the world as the Father of Medicine, Hippocrates is perhaps best known for believing in the power of nutrition to heal disease and illness.
The Hippocratic Oath of 'thou shall do no harm,' is named after him for a reason.
"It was Hippocrates who finally freed medicine from the shackles of magic, superstition, and the supernatural. Hippocrates collected data and conducted experiments to show that disease was a natural process; that the signs and symptoms of a disease were caused by the natural reactions of the body to the disease process; and that the chief role of the physician was to aid the natural resistance of the body to overcome the metabolic imbalance and restore health and harmony to the organism. Hippocrates was born on the island of Cos, off the southwest coast of Asia Minor, or present-day Turkey, around 460 B.C.
Painting located in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale
BOOKS
New Book Coming Soon
