$150.00
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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."
Hello Angela,
This email is very delayed as we visited your tea farm late August of this year. My husband, Jim (solar biz) and I, along with our friends Lori and Bob thoroughly enjoy the farm tour, information, healing energy, and most importantly your teas.
When smelling all of your delightful teas, I came upon Happy Spleen. I knew upon the first sniff that I felt a strong urge that I have to have it. It is a daily enjoyment served cold with the juice of one lime and a couple of drops of stevia. Amazing!
You mentioned during the tour that you have a reading list to share. I would appreciate that whenever you have the time.
We will be sure to stop by the next time we are in the TC area...usually every summer and sometimes a quick winter trip. Retiring in the area is definitely in our conversations. Blessings to you, your family, and farm.
Thanks so much,
Becky S
This place is magical! I have been a loyal LOD tea customer for over a decade. I visit the tea farm and shop several times a year. I always bring my friends from out of town to visit this peaceful place and enjoy the beautiful selection of teas. I feel so blessed that I have this incredible place in my town.
The Tea 101 class is phenomenal!! I have taken it 3 times over the years (the first time was in 2013) and I learn something new every single time. I always attend with a friend and they love it too. Angela, the owner, is PASSIONATE about tea, the wonderful qualities, ceremony, traditions, and medicinal benefits of tea. And she shares so much with you during this class. You will learn so much! Do not hesitate to become a more educated tea enthusiast.
The tea shop has the most amazing blends. Angela was born to blend, infuse, and create teas for the world to enjoy. The labor of love that is in each tin of tea will have you trying to figure out how to bring every one of them home with you. I have an entire cupboard dedicated to LOD Teas. The richness of each blend will have you brewing tea all year long. You can taste the love and passion in every sip. The tea is so amazing, I can brew several cups from just one scoop. It seems like an investment until you figure out how many cups you can brew from one canister and that the quality of your tea is exponentially higher than anything you can purchase at the grocery store.
I live off of “Sun in the Winter” during the cold winter months. I swear by its power to ward off colds. “Blueberry Blessings” is my favorite spring blend. “Hummingbird Nectar” is my favorite iced tea during the hot summer months. “Heartwarming Cinnamon“ and “Sunday Morning” are my favorites for fall. Matcha is my daily morning health ritual for the last decade. I only buy matcha from LOD! They are the only ones I trust to ensure it’s pure and fresh and viable. I love all their teas. I can’t get enough of them! I want them all!!
Level up your tea time. Life is too short to drink anything but the very best!
I thoroughly enjoyed the tea class! It was well worth the investment to learn so much with someone like Angela who is so passionate about what she does. I left with so much more knowledge about tea and its benefits. The tour afterwards was such a joy as well. If you're thinking about attending a class - DO IT!
Your class and tour were absolutely amazing and I find myself reflecting on both so often! I am now drinking your tea nearly daily, drinking a large glass of water to take my matcha capsules first thing each morning, and singing your praises. The class itself was truly fascinating and engaging. I wish I had taken better notes along the way, but I found your knowledge and passion captivating and loved actually sipping each tea you introduced while explaining its flavor notes, what medicinal and/or mood enhancing properties each has, how best to enjoy it, etc. Your knowledge and passion encouraged me to fully jump in.
The tour through the farm brought me to a place inside me that I have not visited for years. Grounding, delightful, connecting-with-the-earth, I felt transported. Thank you. I am not a gardener, nor do I yet understand all that it takes TO garden sustainably, respectfully, successfully, but I know how it feels. You and Michael showed genuine and generous hospitality which made Amy and me feel so welcomed along with the others in our group. It is clearly evident that farming tea, along with the other plants, herbs you grow is laborious, takes time and patience as things mature and grow, involves trial and error, and yet, as each of you talks about what you do, what is growing, the specific work involved in farming and keeping all parts of it up and running, you speak as though it is like breathing; there is no angst, no heaving sighs, no complaints. Your passion along with your having found your true home in what you have created shows in your ease of and delight in sharing.
Here's to a beautiful fall for you and all involved with Light of Day. I am ever grateful we looked twice as we drove past last year and intentionally stopped in and then signed up for your class and tour this summer.
Angela is soooo knowledgeable and the tea farm itself is soooo impressive! I learned a pile of things I did not know, and all the tea samples were amazing! I might have ruined it for myself now that I know what good, organic tea is actually supposed to taste like! I was not able to do the tour this time, but will absolutely be watching for other classes and will next time! Thank you all for an amazing day at the tea farm!
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