Cultivate Tea and Spice Co.

Our products are hand-blended by passionate artisans and in small batches to ensure the best quality every time.  Our mission is to provide healthy alternatives to the many overly processed foods we often see on the shelves today.  We hope that our products are helping people live a healthy and happy lifestyle.

We started our company as more of a weekend hobby selling our products at the local farmers markets.  When we began to be approached by coffee shops and local retail stores, we realized that this could grow into something a little bigger.  We took small steps as we continued our careers as elementary school teachers.  We have been growing for 6 years now and it is so exciting to continue having stores and cafes reach out to us with interest in our products.  We are pleased with the growth in sales in our online shop as well.  With all of the products available on the internet, it touches our hearts to know people are choosing to navigate to our website.  Most of these customers are people that have met us at a market or an event when visiting our beautiful city of St. Augustine and knowing that once returning home they loved our products enough to shop our website is a blessing.

My mother definitely inspired me to love cooking at a young age.  She’s a great home cook and I still call on her for cooking advice when making a new recipe.  My wife and I also love organic gardening at our home.  Our passion and appreciation for nature and the powerful benefits of natural ingredients has driven this company forward. We believe in supporting organic agriculture and sustainable ways of living.  We also believe in supporting local businesses and greatly value our relationships with our local wholesale partners.

Our products are made with premium certified organic ingredients.  We hand blend our teas and spices in small batches ensuring freshness.   Being a small batch artisan company, our products are never warehoused for extended periods of time like many of the larger corporations. I love providing quality products to my community.  It is a pleasure to see our customers face to face at the market every weekend and have real genuine conversations.  Hearing how much our customers enjoy our products fills me with pride!  I also love talking about food and our customers enjoy sharing recipes and their favorite ways to use our spice blends.  We’ve made some great friends with other artisans as well and I have greatly enjoyed watching the market grow and change over the years.