We're Celebrating 15 Years of Growing Canadian Tea

This year, we are celebrating 15 Years of growing Canadian Tea.

Time flies when you’re having fun - or should we say, when you’re experimenting with growing + harvesting 800+ camellia sinensis plants in a temperate rainforest on an island in Canada.

We planted our first tea bushes in 2010, adding to our business of importing fine organic teas and blending original recipe teas and tisanes. “ I am self taught as a tea grower and tea maker. I learned through experimentation (mostly failure emerging into some success) as I didn’t study with others somewhere else. There being no benchmark in Canada to follow, I paved my own way.” - Victor Vesely, owner + tea maker of Westholme Tea Company. Mentoring came to the farm in the form of curious and interested growers from around the world who shared constructive critique, advice and support.

This has allowed the line of Canadian grown teas that we offer to flourish and evolve into what you know today as our line of green, roasted green, black and white teas.

We are so excited for you to taste our first Spring flush of 2025. Raise a cup with us to celebrate 15 years of growing tea + tea culture in the Cowichan Valley and beyond! We are excited for more adventures to come.