People and Plants: How to make a cup of tea

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People and Plants: How to make a cup of tea

One of my favorite ways to interact with plants on a daily basis is through making tea or tisanes. When I was a youngster, the only tea we consumed was sweet and iced. It was a combination of orange pekoe tea bags and a whole lot of sugar. I blame my obsession with steeping plant parts from a single cup of tulsi tea. That one cup was so warm and pleasing that I started having tulsi every afternoon. Now, decades later, I drink four to six cups a …