In 2017, we left our careers in management and marketing in Estonia to do something different, more meaningful, and connected to nature.

We somehow stumbled upon the abandoned tea plantations of Georgia and the story of how Georgian tea had gone from riches to rags got us hooked. The new understanding of how nontransparent the tea industry is, with little to no information about the origins when buying a box of tea at the supermarket, added another push to our dream to help bring Georgian tea back on the map. We started on a mission to rehabilitate abandoned tea plantations and to build the most transparent tea farm out there.

With no prior experience or knowledge about tea, we restored 40 hectares of plantations, learned the fundamentals of organic tea cultivation, figured out how to produce tea (and even won some awards with them), and built a community that gets their yearly tea supply from Renegade Tea Estate.

With our Georgian tea farm well established and increasingly taken care of by the local team members, we are ready to tell the story of another forgotten treasure!