All Visiting Opportunities

• Farm Tea Shop & Tea Bar

Please see the very top of our website's home page where our physical tea shop's hours will always be posted in yellow.

Our  physical on-farm tea shop, tea bar, tin refill station re-opens for the season on May 1 this year. Our website offers shopping 24/7 year round:  please place your order on this website & we will ship out  via USPS Priority Mail, or you may choose the farm pick up option if you desire to pick up here instead.  Thank you for your support of this Organic & Biodynamic Tea Farm, small business & wildlife sanctuary the past 21 years. We appreciate YOU! 

•  Local's pick up 

Local's pick up will be available for pick up from inside our on-farm retail tea shop located at 3502 E. Traverse Hwy. Traverse City, MI 49684. As a small family business with limited staffing, "Store Pick up" option is available inside the tea shop ONLY when our store is open. Your order will be marked as ready for pick up with 1-2 business days of placing your order. Please do not come to the farm until you receive a message that your order is ready for pick up. You do not need an appointment. Please park, then come into the tea shop to sign for your order pick up. Please note that orders not picked up within 1 month of order date will be donated to the local homeless shelter or food bank.

• Tea Workshops with Tour

Held within our Yurt Classroom during the growing season May-September each year, these legendary workshops are expansive tea tastings, tea education, history, varieties, origins and head-to-toe holistic health benefits of tea. We teach about our regenerative, sustainable farming practices which create nutrient-dense ingredients when grown in living soil such as ours is, soil teeming with life & vitality.  Owner-guided walking tours are an incredible highlight of each workshop and cannot be purchased individually. Attending a class (group or private) is a prerequisite to a farm tour to best understand the land management and extremely labor-intensive process of creating our Organic and Biodynamic teas and tisanes.  View Classes & register by clicking HERE.

About the Farm itself... these two very active working farms and two licensed commercial production kitchens are where all the magic happens! This is where hundreds of ingredients for tea  are grown each year from the heirloom seeds we collect on site, where our crops are harvested by hand, processed (dried, shaped, lovingly blended, and then packaged with great care). Light of Day Organic Farm here in Traverse City is the direct and exclusive source of our hand-crafted offerings.

 M-72 divides our farms. Both parcels of land (12.29 acres/ 42.36 acres) and are facilities are audited annually by MDA, FDA, USDA, and Demeter Biodynamic. A full product audit is conducted, labels and website are reviewed for accuracy and Organic/Biodynamic compliance. Soils, fertility, water quality, botanicals are monitored and sent for testing. We live here, have raised our children and animals here; we  care deeply about this place and all beings who inhabit this land. We are highly invested in maintaining this pristine land that we have the pleasure and honor to steward. The succession plan ensures that Light of Day Organic Teas will live on and on. 

This has been some of the most meaningful work of our lives.