Tag: community

  • Announcing Rootstalk Festival

    Yes folks, the rumors are true: The Free Tea Party will be hosting a Free Tea Pavilion at Rootstalk – a festival celebrating plants, people, and planet. Rootstalk is put on by Mountain Rose Herbs, one of the Free Tea Party’s proud sponsors. Throughout the weekend there is non-stop music, guest speakers, plant walks, and…

  • Springtime Tea Party with Common Vision

    On Sunday March 20th, the third anniversary of when I first bought Edna, it had just been the longest I’d been apart from her since we met. I know it seems kind of funny for me to make such a big deal about this, but for real, this bus represents the path I am taking…

  • Leaving Town – Eureka, CA

    After spending the winter serving tea every Tuesday on the Arcata Plaza we had made many new tea sipping friends, and plenty of the old ones were still kicking around as well. We set up at Arts Alive with the MARZ project at the smaller plaza in downtown Eureka. They set up interactive music, art,…

  • Anarchist Book Fair – Manila, CA

      This was the beginning of a 16 hour, 3 event tea serving day. Whew, exhausting… I was actually surprised at how few people at this fair came to drank tea. I thought that of all people, it would be anarchists that understood best what I am doing – bottom up, grassroots, no permission from…

  • Edna Gets Painted! – Cloverdale, CA

    Oh man, it was a long time coming. I got pulled over in Ojai a little over a year ago after I was visiting Zhena’s Gypsy Tea headquarters. The officer told me that it was illegal to have a “school bus yellow” school bus in the state of California if it wasn’t operated by a…

  • Islands’ Village Faire and ‘On Peace’ – Friday Harbor, WA

    25 gallons of free tea!!! That means 500 cups of tea in one weekend! I think that’s a new record. I even got to try out my new parabolic solar water heater that I finished building there at the fair. It didn’t work quite as well as I had hoped, but it got my water…

  • Rideshare – Santa Rosa, CA to Friday Harbor, WA

    Oh boy, what a journey. Working hard on the bus and and a desire to connect with island roots brought my friend Ali (above center right) and I to the conclusion that we should head north for the Islands’ Village Faire on San Juan Island. We swiftly convinced her dear friend Mandana (above center left)…