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In the hub of German viniculture, the Palatinate, Jessica Sch\u00f6nfeld and Christian Wei\u00df grow herbs in an organic-style agricultural way for the production of tea. It is a story of hard work that results in fine scent and amazing taste.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peppermint perfumes the air. It wafts gently above the grass-green lacquered herb-cutting machine and lurks in an intense form behind the wooden door to the drying chamber. The chamber itself reveals a feast for the senses: scent and rustling of dried leaves, pale-green colour. Christian Wei\u00df built the dryer, a large wooden device for recirculating air, himself, just like he grows and harvests himself the herbs on the field close to Ruppertsberg in the Palatinate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A feast for the senses: dried peppermint leaves.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Together with his wife Jessica, Christian runs the enterprise named after their family name: \u201cSch\u00f6nfeld \u2013 die Tee-G\u00e4rtner\u201d (the tea gardeners). They moved to the picturesque Palatinate village in 2015. He comes from close to Cologne and she from Leipzig. They met and fell in love in the Hessian town of Geisenheim, where Jessica studied International Wine Business and Christian Beverage Technology. He had worked as a freelance landscape gardener before. His family had owned a nursery for ornamental plants, \u201cbut to work at over 40 degrees Celsius in a greenhouse was not for me.\u201d He was looking \u201cfor a chance to enter agriculture, in a niche\u201d instead. Tea made him find it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cMade with love in Germany\u201d is their slogan: sowing, harvesting and packaging has been done (so far) just by Christian and Jessica.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Since then, Sch\u00f6nfeld herbs have grown on a good hectare of land in and around Ruppertsberg\u2014a variety of more than 30 sorts, some of them rarely found in Germany, such as lemon verbena, lemon grass or liquorice. \u201cBloody Hell\u201d is one of their teas, blended with chilli and labelled with a \u2018warning\u2019. Another one is called \u201cCasanova\u201d said to \u201ctaste of summer\u201d with its lemon grass, thyme and oregano ingredients. \u201cMade with love in Germany\u201d is their slogan: sowing, harvesting and packaging has been done (so far) just by Christian and Jessica, who is also employed part-time in a wine-growing estate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The herbs are dry enough for further processing after 9 to 18 hours of drying, depending on the sort, at a maximum temperature of 34 degrees Celsius in the chamber. Now, the peppermint has to be treated by breaking off the leaves from the stems and separating them. Christian converted a de-stemming machine for this process. It works like a de-stemming machine in winery that takes off the grapes from the vines. The herbs are then transported into a so-called Zick-Zack-Sichter device, which is a curious machine with thick hoses and a transparent plastic funnel. The peppermint leaves dance inside of it. The machine separates the leaves from the stems through recirculating air and sorts them according to size into the corresponding storage containers by means of two loudly shaking sieves lying on top of each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Christian Wei\u00df improves exclusively old equipment or fiddles about new machines on his own, such as the lavish Zick-Zack-Sichter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

These machines stand between old walls\u2014the couple bought a little farm that had been vacant for many years in the heart of the village to start their production. A lot remains to do here, but you don\u2019t need a lot of imagination to get an idea of how beautiful this place once was and will soon again be. Particularly because Christian has shown himself to be a skilful workman as a tea gardener already: He improves exclusively old equipment or fiddles about new machines on his own, such as the lavish Zick-Zack-Sichter. And he really enjoys working on the field, do the harvesting in the early mornings, \u201cwhen the aroma is most intense and the plants do not yet hang slackly by the influence of the sun.\u201d Usually, he uses a little machine for harvest\u2014and sometimes his hands, like in the magnificent field of cornflowers, which looks like a sea of blue, pink and dark purple blossom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oregano with \u201ca lot of oomph\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Christian and Jessica buckle on their baskets and start to pick the heads\u2014these parts of the flowers have a lot to offer after drying, not only in terms of taste but also visually between the green herbs. On a different field, also leased by the couple, thyme is in lilac blossom. Oregano grows next to it with \u201ca lot of oomph\u201d as Christian puts it. It has a remarkably spicy tang, indeed. When you do a guided tour of the tea gardeners\u2019 estate, you may touch, smell and try: the various sage sorts, for example. Christian\u2019s \u201cfavourite one\u201d is Marzipansalbei (marzipan sage). \u201cIt is a bit of a diva, brings relatively little yields\u2014however, the tea is stunning,\u201d he goes into raptures. The plant doesn\u2019t taste much of marzipan, \u201cbut there is a certain natural sweetness to it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When you do a guided tour of the tea gardeners\u2019 estate, you may touch, smell and try.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On this night, like most nights, Christian wants to go out to the field again. Even if he has been \u201ccrawling on his knees along the field\u201d very early in the morning already\u2014to remove weeds. The couple works their fields almost entirely in ecological ways. \u201cRain is not for the benefit of our herbs only,\u201d he says. Weeds have gown like a weed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jessica with son Thor Alexander.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Jessica has a hard time accepting that she can\u2019t help much on the fields\u2014now, at the peak of season: Thor Alexander, their son, is sleeping in the sling. \u201cThe two of us are movers and shakers. I can hardly keep my feet still,\u201d Jessica says. She shares her partner\u2019s passion for tea, \u201cbecause it is so multi-facetted and there is a broad range of tastes. People associate something beautiful with tea, something cosy.\u201d There is a blend for every situation in life. Even more so, when it grows right on one\u2019s doorstep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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