Farmer Leaf

Yubai and William are tea producers from Jingmai Mountain (Yunnan), known for clear, energetic raw pu-erh and a very transparent, education-first approach.

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Background

Yubai grew up in Jingmai; her family harvested ancient tea gardens and sold leaves to factories.
In 2011 (age 20), she started her own small tea factory to process fresh leaves and sell her Jingmai pu-erh.
In 2015, she began pressing cakes under her own label Jing Yu Tian Xiang 景域天香.
William has been into tea since his teens; after high school he spent a year in China learning Mandarin and exploring Yunnan’s tea mountains.
They met in Jingmai’s ancient tea gardens on September 6th, 2010.
William later studied biology/agriculture and graduated as an agricultural engineer (2016), then settled in Yunnan.
Together they built Farmer Leaf as the international sister-brand to Jing Yu Tian Xiang, focusing on direct-from-source tea and education (videos, write-ups, transparent sourcing).

“you don’t look for good tea by yourself, the good leaves find their way to your cup.”

(as they say in China)

About Farmer Leaf (Yunnan, China)

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.