Teemaschine aus Taiwan

Thank you so much for all your wonderful support! We’re very happy to share that our crowdfunding campaign has been successfully completed. It’s truly special to feel that so many people believe in our tea project and are helping us bring the new drying machine from Taiwan to Portugal.

Over the next weeks, we’ll focus on preparing your rewards—especially since our tea harvest kicked off in full swing right after the sunny Easter holidays! Some of the rewards include teas from this fresh harvest, so we kindly ask for a little more patience while we prepare everything with the care it deserves.

If you’ve chosen the «Guided Tour» or «Private Tasting» reward and already have a date in mind, please contact us at info@chacamelia.com so we can include it in our schedule.

Enjoy some photos from the first harvest day of the new season 💚

We’ve reached over 70% thanks to our amazing community of backers – thank you all! Since our campaign runs on an all‑or‑nothing model, we’re counting on each of you to inspire just one more person to join and support us.

We craft our teas with dedication at every single step – from cultivating the plants to hand‑picking and processing the leaves. It’s a true privilege to know that our teas are served with the same care in remarkable places.

Today we’re thrilled to reveal the surprise behind our most special reward: the Solidary Donation. It’s a unique day dedicated entirely to tea with Nina, the founder of Chá Camélia. Together, you’ll visit our tea garden, where a very special tea tasting will be prepared right beside the tea plants, and the port wine cellar where Pipachá ages in its port barrels. You’ll also discover the extraordinary tea house perched on seaside rocks, designed by star architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, and enjoy lunch at the two‑Michelin‑star restaurant Casa de Chá da Boa Nova by chef Rui Paula, where our teas are served with utmost care by Sommelier Carlos Monteiro.

Perhaps you know someone who might enjoy this immersive tea day—or one of our other unique rewards.

Wishing you a nice Easter holiday 💚

We’re now in the full swing of preparations for our upcoming tea harvest, channeling that vibrant spring energy into every step. This week, we brewed and applied our first biodynamic spray of the season—a nourishing stinging nettle tea—to infuse our tea plants with positive energies, fortifying them for healthy growth and exceptional flavour. We’ve scheduled a small test harvest for next Thursday, with the main harvest kicking off right after Easter.

Our crowdfunding campaign has soared to 55% funded, with just 10 more days to go—plenty of time to join the adventure and spread the word to your network!

There is an exclusive harvest reward: Imagine rolling up your sleeves for a hands-on harvesting day with me, Nina, and the passionate Chá Camélia team—complete with a shared lunch amid the tea gardens and an intimate private tasting led by me in the tea garden. This unforgettable experience can happen during this year’s summer tea harvest, next summer’s, or even the autumn flower harvest. You’ll also take home 100g of that very special batch, crafted with your own helping hands—a tasting testament to your support for our organic tea journey.

After the heavy rains and cold winter here in Portugal, spring is finally approaching. In our tea garden, the plants are slowly waking up, and the first young shoots are starting to appear. For now, we’re quite relieved that the harvest is beginning a little later than usual. This gives us hope that the drying machine might arrive in the middle of the harvest, so we’ll still have a chance to test it this year.

At the moment, the machine is being adapted to meet EU certification requirements before shipment. We’re crossing our fingers that this process goes smoothly so it can soon be on its way to Portugal.

We’ve now reached the halfway point of our campaign and are getting close to 50% of our goal. To help us make the rest possible, please share our campaign with your friends and contacts. Every bit of support makes a big difference!

Making tea is a kind of magic. From the very same leaf of Camellia sinensis, you can create all colours of tea — from white and green to oolong and black. While making a herbal infusion simply means preserving the natural flavour of peppermint or lemon verbena, processing tea is different: you actually create its flavour through several delicate steps.

At Chá Camélia, all our teas are hand-picked, and most of the processing is done in an artisanal way — with plenty of human touch and no AI involved. By the way, our tea is truly women-powered: 6 of the 7 members of Chá Camélia are women (one of them currently pregnant!) and just one man. This is quite special, considering it’s an agricultural project — and that’s also why our campaign is featured in the category «She Makes It.»

The new harvest is already on the horizon. Usually our spring harvest starts in early April and lasts until mid-May, continuing again in June and July with the summer harvest. It’s a long and intense period, and the last processing step is essential for every type of tea: the drying. That’s why we’ve decided to invest in a larger, more professional drying machine that will help us maintain consistent quality when working with larger quantities of leaves.

We’ve already reached almost 40% of our goal — a great step forward! But we still need all the help we can get to spread the word about our campaign.

The first week is coming to an end, and we’ve reached our 15% funding goal. I am very grateful for all the support and the overwhelmingly positive feedback I have received from so many people for our project.

I’d like to share some impressions of our tea farm through the new photos and invite you to celebrate with us. We’ve just set the date for our 15th anniversary celebration on 27 September 2026 in the tea garden. Details about the event are available in the reward section «Ticket Event: Festa do Chá» (Tea Party).

Our tea garden is located 20 minutes from Porto Airport and 30 minutes from Porto city center. There is plenty of accommodation in the nearby city of Vila do Conde or in Porto itself, and we can help you find the right option for you.

Alternative options to visit us are the rewards guided tea garden tour, private tasting and Harvest Experience 🌟