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Nerada Tea Estates Goes Into Hibernation

Nerada Tea Estates in Far North Queensland pauses production at our Malanda Plantation and Factory.

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True brew

Australians’ love of tea is well known, but its place in this country’s history reaches far beyond white settlement, though in a rather different f...

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In 2021, Nerada celebrates 50 years of the Nerada brand and growing tea in Australia for even longer. To commemorate this significant milestone, we look at how the brand continues to pioneer fresh Aussie tea and share our plans to take our distinctive Australian brew to the world.

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Australian Tea

Many Australian tea lovers might find it hard to believe that we even grow tea in Australia. And yet, in 2021, Nerada Tea will be celebrating 50 ye...

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History of the teapot

Learn about the history of the teapot, from China to the West. Plus, check out our guide to brewing tea and cleaning your teapot.

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Nerada – a legacy of Australian innovation

The continued success of Nerada is thanks mainly to three basic ingredients – Australia’s pioneering, ‘can do’ spirit, ingenuity and initiative. W...

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Nerada’s Innisfail Connection

Innisfail will always be the spiritual home of Nerada Tea, marking the beginnings of the tea industry in Australia as we now know it today. For lo...

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Meet the farmer who made Nerada what it is today

Like any Australian agriculture company, the story of Nerada Tea has tales of trials and tribulations, and good old-fashioned hard yakka. It’s fair...

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The origins of tea in Australia

A lost tea plantation, a record setting cyclone, a rainforest expedition and an Indian botanist and his dream to create a tea plantation in Far Nor...

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Troubled Times: The Tale of Tea and Two Families

The early eighties was full of hope and optimism for the tea industry in Australia. The vision of growing world-class tea in Australia was very muc...

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Who owns Nerada Tea?

The Russell family, third-generation tea-producers, own Nerada Tea and in 2021 will celebrate 50 years of Nerada producing Australian-grown black t...

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Like father, like son – A true family business

For Nerada Tea’s plantation director Tony Poyner, living and working in the Atherton Tablelands is the best of all worlds, offering him the perfect...

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