Register by June 1 for pre-season rate of $125 per student.
Experience an immersive day of tea education, tastings, wellness, and a guided farm tour at Light of Day® Organics. These small-group workshops are limited to just 12 participants to keep workshops intimate and allow for detailed questions, and combine the most popular elements of Angela's Tea 101 and Tea Wellness Masterclasses into one unique tea immersion deep-dive.
Light of Day® Organics, located on Michigan's Leelanau Peninsula, is the only USDA Certified Organic AND Demeter-Certified Biodynamic® tea farm growing Camellia sinensis in North America!
Tea Education & Tasting
Wellness Through Tea
Owner‑Guided Farm Tour
Bring someone special to share this event with! It is a lovely memory-making experience that you'll reflect on for years to come.
Angela Macke, RN and horticulturalist, founded Light of Day® Organics in 2003. With over 30 years of experience in holistic nursing and biodynamic agriculture, she teaches how tea, soil health and regenerative farming practices support both personal and environmental wellbeing.
Workshops are held rain or shine and tend to sell out quickly. Register early to secure your spot!
Tea is enjoyed in cultures around the world and is the second most consumed beverage after water. In this portion of the workshop, Angela will introduce the fundamentals of tea, while exploring its connection to overall wellness.
Participants will learn the basics of biodynamic tea farming, a brief history of tea and proper preparation methods for brewing tea by the cup, pot, airpot and iced.
The class includes a guided sensory tasting of a variety of loose-leaf teas including white, green, oolong, black, herbal tisanes, and matcha—along with a sample of our signature matcha smoothie.
You’ll also learn why Light of Day Organics is the only Certified Organic and Demeter Biodynamic grower of Camellia sinensis in North America.
The wellness portion explores how tea can support reduced inflammation and overall well-being, helping participants move toward a higher quality of life.
Angela introduces simple holistic practices such as grounding, forgiveness and mindful awareness ("asking") exercises that can be incorporated into daily life to support balance and inner peace.
“First off, Angela is the most sweet and enlightened soul. I’ve never left somewhere feeling so relaxed. She is such a sweet and kind person. Being in the tasting room and listening to her talk was so peaceful and beautiful. Another person I could listen to talk all day. Tasting all the teas the proper way as she talked about them, really opened up all my senses.”
“This was another unique and wonderful experience that we had with Angela from Light of Day Organics.”
“Angela from Light of Day delivered her lesson with passion and knowledge. I fell in love with their farming practices and would love to learn more about Biodynamic Farming. The tea was wonderful and I was excited to learn that there is no wrong way to brew or drink tea. I found the entire training peaceful and calm.”
“I really enjoyed our visit to LOD. Angela's passion for her business and tea in general was refreshing and contagious. Her suggestions on how to extend tea use beyond a straight beverage was inspiring and got the creative wheels moving in my head.”
“This was an exceptionally impactful experience for many reasons, namely due to the fact that I have been attempting to cut back my caffeine consumption for quite some time, but have never been successful due to having no suitable alternative. The amount of dedication and care that goes into the product Angela grows and processes on this farm really shows in all aspects of the finished product, and I hope to revisit the farm very soon to show more people just how remarkable tea really can be.”
“Chef I have to say thank you so much for getting us the opportunity to have the tasting and tour at Light of Day, it was one of the coolest things I’ve done. I really enjoyed listening to everything Angela had to say and how tea has a big impact health wish for us. Angela has inspired me to give drinking tea a try for all the awesome health benefits I could get.”
“ Light of Day is really an amazing place in North America and Traverse City is blessed to have such a wonderful and environmentally safe business. This is a business that I will be certainly looking up to.”
“I have been patiently waiting two years for this specific tea training. When I found out back then that the Restaurant class got to visit and train with her, I knew that it was going to be an amazing experience. Angela opened my eyes to the amount of work that should be going into the foods that we serve.”
“I was so pumped when I heard we were going to learn about tea at an actual tea farm, it was definitely a highlight of my time here at GLCI. I was shocked to hear that Angela’s tea farm is the only Organic certified and Demeter tea farm in all of North America. She really creates a quality product, each one was more flavorful and aromatic than any tea bag I would purchase at the grocery store.”
“Visiting Light of Day Organics was by far the most eye opening tour I have ever experienced. Angela was such an amazing, inspiring women, owner, mother, nurse, human and I aspire to be more like her. It was such a calming experience.”
" I had the pleasure of attending your instructional tea class for the GLCI this afternoon. Let me just start by saying I am incredibly grateful to have been able to tour your farm today, and thank you so very much for all of your hospitality. It was an experience that has stuck in my mind as one of the most uplifting things to have happened in my life this year, and my loved ones cannot wait to visit the grounds as the flames have been sufficiently fanned by stories of this ethereal place."
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