Happy Earth Tea

Happy Earth Tea 📍 Rochester Tea Bar open Tue–Sun
🌿 Shop online anytime: happyearthtea.com

Happy Earth Tea curates some of the world’s finest organic loose leaf teas—ethically sourced, small-batch, and full of goodness. 🌍

📍 Visit our Tea Bar: 696 South Ave, Rochester, NY
🕙 Tue–Sat: 10 AM–6 PM | Sun: 10 AM–4 PM
🛒 Shop online 24/7: https://happyearthtea.com
✨ Committed to sustainability, garden direct, & giving back—proud 1% for the Planet members.

Happy Juneteenth! 🤎We honor the resilience and the contributions of our Black bothers and sisters - and the ongoing work...
06/19/2026

Happy Juneteenth! 🤎

We honor the resilience and the contributions of our Black bothers and sisters - and the ongoing work of building a more just nation.

06/17/2026

Our founder Niraj and his wife Mary are on holiday in Norway — a country they fell in love with on their first visit four years ago. This time they traveled to the far north, to the island of Senja, which sits above the Arctic Circle. They're loving the wild nature there, and are particularly awestruck by the full splendor of the midnight sun.
It's a phenomenon that has to be experienced to understand its full scope. Disorienting and mystifying, it lets you appreciate the humbling nature of the earth and its forces — and that sense of awe is something Happy Earth, as a business, is driven by.
Enough said. Why don't we let Niraj take you through this experience, and finish with a montage of Norway's natural beauty.
Go find your wonder - whether near or far.

They are here!! There's a short window each spring when the highest elevation tea gardens finally wake up. At Jun Chiyab...
06/14/2026

They are here!! There's a short window each spring when the highest elevation tea gardens finally wake up. At Jun Chiyabari, perched in the eastern Himalayas of Nepal, the cold makes the new growth slow to come — and that patience is exactly what you taste.

Four teas just landed from this remarkable organic garden:

🌱 Himalayan Spring — a first flush tea with sweet and creamy with florals and a gentle earthiness.
🤍 Himalayan White — pristine and delicate; sweet peas, spring greens, a touch of sugar cane.
🍍 Himalayan Shiiba — grown from wild tea trees brought over from Shiiba village in Japan, lightly oxidized, with pineapple, mango, and a clean minerality. A rare tea!
🍯 Himalayan Supreme — our early-summer black: macadamia, apricot, and spring honey, silky all the way down.

Three picked in spring, one in early summer. All organic, all hand-packed here in Rochester, NY.

Swipe through, then tell us which one you'd reach for first. 🫖
Available now online and in store.

06/11/2026

There's tea, and then there's tea in the place it belongs to.
Our youngest team member, Ever, is in Morocco on a school trip — and got to drink Moroccan Mint the way it's meant to be served: poured high, sweet, and shared. Thanks for bringing us along, Ever. 🌿🇲🇦

06/09/2026

As the temperatures climb, we keep a pitcher of this going on the bottom shelf of the fridge all summer long.
It's cold brew Darjeeling — and it might be the easiest good thing you make all season. Instead of brewing hot and pouring over ice, you steep loose-leaf tea slowly in cold water overnight. The cold draws out the delicious peachy notes Darjeeling first flush is famous for, while leaving the bitterness behind. The result is smooth, naturally sweet, and a little wine-like — nothing like what comes in a bottle.
The pitcher in the video is one we carry in our tea ware section, and the tea is our organic Darjeeling. Fill it before bed, strain in the morning, and you're set.
We've put our full cold brew method — ratios, timing, and four teas that shine cold — on the blog. Come read it, then come see us at 696 South Avenue and we'll set you up.
Read the full guide: https://happyearthtea.com/blogs/tea-101/cold-brew-tea-the-easiest-way-to-cool-off-this-summer

06/06/2026

We are sampling Darjeeling Risheehat 2026 first flush and Golden Osmanthus black tea today 6/6, 12-2 PM. These teas are part of our new additions that will delight any serious tea enthusiast. Come on in!🍵👍

06/06/2026

Last night we tried something new — and you made it feel like we'd been doing it for years.
Our first First Friday meant staying open till 9pm and opening the shop up as a gathering place. Happy Gut Sanctuary set up a kombucha pop-up (if you've had their brew, some of it starts as our loose-leaf tea — a partnership we're proud of), DJ Maxxie filled the room with music, and we had the joy of welcoming guests from the Ibero American Action League into our tea community.
We started Happy Earth Tea because we believe a tea shop can be more than a place to buy tea — it can be a place where a neighborhood gathers. Last night was exactly that.
Thank you to everyone who came by. We'll be doing this again. 🍵
📍 696 South Avenue, in the South Wedge

We're doing something a little different this Friday.After hours, we're opening up the shop for a laid-back evening — an...
06/03/2026

We're doing something a little different this Friday.
After hours, we're opening up the shop for a laid-back evening — and there's quite a bit to look forward to.
Happy Gut Sanctuary will be pouring their artisan kombucha, much of it brewed with our own organic loose-leaf teas. Our tea mocktails are making a return for the night — seasonal, bright, and completely alcohol-free, they're one of those things people keep asking us to bring back. And DJ Maxxie, who's been part of this community for a while, will be providing the soundtrack.
Free to attend. Come as you are. Bring a friend.
Friday, June 5 · 6–9 PM
Happy Earth Tea · 696 South Avenue, Rochester NY

05/28/2026

🌧️ New teas are raining down at Happy Earth Tea!

This week we’ve welcomed two fresh Darjeeling First Flush teas from Steinthal and Jungpana.

Then, in a surprise twist, a shipment of Chinese teas that had been trapped in Customs for over two months suddenly appeared at our door yesterday. We thought it was lost for good!

The box is packed with exciting new arrivals, including several outstanding black teas. More details coming soon. 🍵✨

05/28/2026

A note to our Happy Earth Tea community —
We want to be upfront about something. Several of you have reached out about the ziplock on our new compostable pouches pulling away from the bag wall. It's a real defect, and we're sorry it's happening.
Here's where things stand: we've spoken with our supplier, and they are working with the manufacturer to get to the bottom of it. We don't have a resolution yet, but we're pushing.
While we wait — try this. Fold the top of the bag over a couple of times and seal it with a paper clip. Simple, but it keeps your tea fresh.
We're not switching back to conventional plastic. The environmental cost of that decision is one we're not willing to make, even when things get complicated.
Also worth knowing: these bags are compostable, but they need a commercial composting facility — not your home bin. Rochester is lucky to have for exactly this. They handle composting for us at the shop and at home.
Thank you for your patience and for holding us to a high standard. It means everything.

Address

696 South Avenue
Rochester, NY
14620

Opening Hours

Tuesday 10am - 6pm
Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday 10am - 6pm
Saturday 10am - 6pm
Sunday 10am - 4pm

Telephone

+15857307754

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