Thanks for stopping by our website. It is fairly simple now, but we have big plans for the future. For the past three years, my family and I have worked on bringing a great tasting herbal tea to the market in a way that will honor my Grandmother, Yanabah. In the coming months, I will be writing stories and thoughts about her and how she influenced me. From this, I hope to have others tell me about their grandmothers, grandfathers, or even pass on a favorite family story about a loved one who lived long ago.
Families are amazing. The memories and experiences that connect us need to be reviewed so we do not forget those who helped us, even if several generations back, and what we have overcome as a family. It can remind us of who we are. Click on the "Stories" tab at the top and tell me yours. If your family member is Native or part Native American, please let me know which tribe or tribes he/she descends from.
NAVAJO TEA
Part of my earliest recollections as a child growing up on the Navajo Reservation is drinking Navajo Tea. My Grandmother Yanabah would always have a pot of it on her wood burning cook stove, especially in the colder months. One of my favorite memories in the summer was to accompany her to Jane Yo's house, situated in the Chuska Mountains not too far from Wheatfields Lake. Close to her house was a filed that usually had an abundance of the navaho tea plant growing there. We harvested the plants by cutting the stems a few inches above the ground and placing them on a blanket to be carried back to the house. After harvesting, we made traditional tea bundles and took them home to be hung up and dried. At the end of the day, even though we were very tired, Grandmother always appreciated the bounty of Mother Earth.
My family and i have been gathering and growing Navajo Tea so that we can have it professionally processed, packaged, and ready to ship to our new friends.
May you come to enjoy the goodness of Yanabah's Traditional Navajo Tea.
Yellow Bird
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