Origin 001 · 0.3689° S · 35.2863° E

Kenya

Highland cultivation, research and a first chapter in purple.

ORIGINRIFT & ROOT

Kericho · The Rift Valley

A place encountered before a product.

In Kenya’s western highlands, tea follows the contours of altitude, equatorial light, rainfall and volcanic earth. Kericho is not a backdrop to the collection. It is the beginning of its meaning.

Hands holding a fresh agricultural harvest — Hands Behind the Harvest · Kenya

People

Knowledge lives in the hands.

Every harvest carries observation, judgement and repetition: how a shoot is read, when it is gathered, what is kept, and what is passed forward.

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Product 001 · Purple Tea

Kenyan Purple Tea

A distinct cultivar shaped by Kenyan research and highland cultivation. The product follows the place—not the other way around.

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Kenyan purple tea leaves prepared at origin

Route of exchange · Kenya

From where it grows,
to where it goes.

01Origin

02Cultivation

03Processing

04Movement

05Destination

Connected records · Origin 001

01Journal · Vol. 01 KenyaEditorial 02Purple Tea · Product 001Provenance 03Origin Record KEN-001-PT-001Record 04Rift & Root / Kenya collectionCollection 05People & field notesDocumentation in progress

A place encountered before a product.

Knowledge lives in the hands.

Kenyan Purple Tea

From where it grows,to where it goes.

From where it grows,
to where it goes.