Buying from small/traditional producers

[stockman]

I'm not looking for cakes to make me rich in the future as I don't want to sell my cakes (unless I need the money to eat) I just want something made at the traditional way as I have only tasted big factories cakes.

My problem is that I have a small budget and that spanish customs are the biggest shit of Europe.

I have taken a look at those vendors and tealet looks nice. Has anyone bought from them? How it works? (I can't find the way to buy a cake).

[shah82]

I know there is a spanish tea vendor with some decent stuff, or did...

[Exempt]

How is it not easy? I can go to Chawangshop right now and add the Lao Yu cakes to my Cart, or the Laos productions like the 2014 Ban Payasi (of which I own a tong), or heicha like 2011 Hunan Zhu Xiang Ji, and I hit Checkout to order.

Crimson Lotus Tea productions are small farm, Glen and Lamu stay there while their tea is made. Or how about Tea Urchin's Dark Forest? Or Yunnan Sourcing's Jinggu productions? Misty Peak, despite the marketing issues, is an okay drink at least and single farm. Tealet teas are all small farm too, they are running 30% off on Black Friday.

Add to Cart, Checkout and PayPal. Does it get any easier?

If you are looking for cakes that will appreciate to make you rich someday, we are all not even contenders in that game.

If you're ordering from a website you're not buying from small traditional producers... You're buying from someone sourcing teas that are good enough to list on their website. The end product may be a tea from a small producer, but you certainly aren't going out, finding them, and then buying direct which is what the question is asking

edit: in most cases. There's obviously exceptions

[Emmett]

you know a guy (http://teadb.org/2007-yqh-qizhong/) who knows a guy (https://www.blogger.com/profile/0569178096501408806) who knows a guy (http://chakungfu.blogspot.com/2015/09/yangqinghao.html)

...is about as close as I can get.

LOL.... Yep and he knows another guy who knows the other guy that picked the leaf....

[glenbo]

so my question is, there's any way/possibility to buy directly to small producers?

There is still a lot of puerh that is made by the tea farmers right in their homes. We get a lot of our puerh by working direct with the farmers on site. If you want to work with them direct you're going to need to be in Yunnan and able to speak Chinese.

[Exempt]

you're going to need to be in Yunnan and able to speak Chinese.

Simple enough

[glenbo]

Simple enough

Right? And perhaps be familiar with the local dialects. Even my wife can barely understand some of the farmers we work with.