--- title: Northern Michigan Spring Quest for Tea description: June is National Iced Tea Month! Celebrate the month of June by sipping your favorite iced tea blends, and be sure to try a few new recipes! 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The tea bar inside offers the opportunity to purchase a taste of any of their teas or tisanes, in single cups or in a flight of 6 (as has become popular amongst our craft beer drinkers in this region).  The other option for purchase is a matcha shot, which we eagerly agree we must try.  The deep green matcha powder is blended with coconut milk & pineapple juice, giving it a sweet and creamy taste.  It is perfect for quenching our thirst and providing a boost of energy on an otherwise sweltering and listless day. ![matcha shots-1](https://blog.plasconinc.com/hs-fs/hubfs/matcha%20shots-1.jpg?width=288&name=matcha%20shots-1.jpg)![matcha memoirs](https://blog.plasconinc.com/hs-fs/hubfs/matcha%20memoirs.jpg?width=139&name=matcha%20memoirs.jpg)![IMG_0908](https://blog.plasconinc.com/hs-fs/hubfs/IMG_0908.jpg?width=200&name=IMG_0908.jpg)  To our left is a book filled with everything a person would need to know about tea.  Continuing further on is a wall of tea and tea accessories, to include a sampler package containing 5 different preselected teas.  But the pièce de résistance, my personal favorite part of our visit?  The Sniff Bar; displaying a multitude of teas and tisanes of every color and scent that Light of Day has brought to fruition on their farm.  As you open each tin and inhale, you are struck with an immediate reaction; maybe the invocation of memories past, a din of daydreams visualizing future moments savoring the teas, or even salivation over their delectable combinations of scents.  My favorite is the Humming Bird Nectar.  This amazing blend of cherry, hibiscus, blueberry, grape, currant, elderberry and maple syrup bits immediately lifts my spirits. ![tea blend in hand](https://blog.plasconinc.com/hs-fs/hubfs/tea%20blend%20in%20hand.jpg?width=720&name=tea%20blend%20in%20hand.jpg) ![pink petals_cu2](https://blog.plasconinc.com/hs-fs/hubfs/pink%20petals_cu2.jpg?width=263&name=pink%20petals_cu2.jpg)After smelling almost every tea and tisane available, and chatting up the two knowledgeable staff members further, we head back outside to explore more of the splendor that Light of Day has to offer.  As we weave through the landscape, we also start to notice some of humankind’s thumbprint surrounding us.  The solar panels mounted into the ground and on top of an outbuilding, a yurt for holding special classes/events, an open wooden gazeebo perfect for sipping tea under and a ring of chairs around an unlit campfire.  I can clearly picture a cool Northern Michigan spring evening, wrapped in a blanket, sitting around a roaring fire and sipping a warm cup of their tea.  Everything though is harmonious, blending with its surrounding or there for a purpose only to promote the well-being of the farm and earth overall.  With some measure of disappointment, we finally return to our vehicle to head back into the hustle of Traverse City.  We leave knowing though that we were fortunate to have experienced one of Northern Michigan’s true gems, offering a small slice of nature’s perfect bounty for us to take home. --- Light of Day Organics is located at 3502 E. 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