Farmer Leaf

Farmer Leaf is built around one idea: if you care about tea quality, you should be able to trace it back to the place, the people, and the decisions made in the garden and in the wok. Yubai’s roots are in Jingmai, where her family harvested ancient gardens long before “gushu” became a marketing word. William came to Yunnan as a student, fell into the pu-erh world, and later returned with an agricultural engineering background—useful not for slogans, but for asking the boring questions that actually matter: how a garden is managed, what “sustainable” looks like on the ground, and why processing details change the feeling of a tea.

Their signature Jingmai productions (like Gulan and Miyun) are designed as reference points: different garden types, different selections, all processed by the two of them during harvest season.