Journal Vol. 01 Kenya — Rift & Root

01 · Hands Behind the Harvest02 · Stories of Origin03 · Cultivated04 · Routes of Exchange05 · Field Notes06 · Origin Table

Hands holding freshly plucked tea leaves at harvest

Kenya

Hands Behind the Harvest 01 · Hands Behind the Harvest

The Hands That Pluck at Dawn

Kenyan tea is largely a smallholder achievement. This is a portrait of the work—and the judgement—that a plucked leaf carries.

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Cultivated tea highlands in Kericho, Kenya

Stories of Origin · Kenya

Kericho, A Landscape Made by Rain

Kenya's founding Rift & Root origin is a highland county where altitude, volcanic soil and near-daily rainfall built one of the world's great tea landscapes.

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Purple-leaf tea growing across the Kenyan highlands

Cultivation · Kenya

Where Purple Begins

In Kenya’s high country, a new tea carries the color of its leaves into a larger story of research, altitude and possibility.

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Held for future volumes

01More Than a CropGhana 02The Forest Before the CupEthiopia 03The Island in Every CloveZanzibar

Stories of Origin.Routes of Exchange.

The Hands That Pluck at Dawn

Kericho, A Landscape Made by Rain

Where Purple Begins

Stories of Origin.
Routes of Exchange.