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Have you ever wondered how your favourite Harney tea gets made? Wonder no more! We’re taking you inside our 90,000 square foot factory located in Millerton, New York to give you a unique view of our process through the eyes of an artist. Follow along as we take you from tasting table to tea time. We’ll kick off our Tour de Harney at one of our many shelving units. This is where everything begins. For scale, the height of the first shelf is about 5 feet and each bag holds up to 90 pounds of raw product. Our factory is over 90,000...

Have you ever seen the Fair Trade Certified™ logo on a box of Harney tea and wondered what it meant? It’s important to us to support fair trade practices whenever we can, and we’d like our customers to understand why. Fair Trade USA®  is a nonprofit organisation and the leading certifier of fair trade products in North America ranging from seafood to apparel to produce, offering certification for growers, factories and fisheries around the world. Its trusted Fair Trade Certified seal on a product signifies that it was made according to rigorous fair trade standards that promote sustainable livelihoods, safe working...

As Harney's distributor for Hong Kong and Macau, we have decided to use our first blog post to share a story about Paul Harney, son of John Harney. --- Ten years ago, Paul Harney had a crazy idea. "Let's join 1% for the Planet." We would give 1% of our sales to environmental organizations, just like his hero Yvon Chouinard (of Patagonia). The idea seemed a bit crazy; we were barely making any money at the time. However we joined and have never looked back. In partnership with our valued customers, we have donated over $3,000,000 to the organizations listed on our Global Footprint page (2016...