For some of us, those one-stop grocery shopping days we grew up with are thankfully over (Walmart and Target diehards notwithstanding), and we have more roasted beet salad and Coho salmon dinner quality to show for it. Of course, the concept of shopping at specialty retailers was a lot easier back in the day when going to both the butcher and seafood market meant a fifteen minute small town jaunt.
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02 Mar 2011, Posted by admin in MEET, 0 Comments
Steve Heil isn’t the sort of guy you’d expect to be making — growing, harvesting and commercially packaging — greenthread herbal tea, also known as Navajo tea or cota. For starters, Heil isn’t Navajo. He is an elementary school teacher, a darn good one, who happened upon the herbal tea fifteen years ago when he began teaching art classes in Gallup, New Mexico, a small town bordering Navajo and Zuni reservations. “People were saying someone should grow this tea again, it is very traditional and it was disappearing,” he says of the sustainable perennial herb that is native to the Colorado Plateau that he sells under the label PlaTEAu.
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