In 2017, we left our careers in management and marketing in Estonia to do something different, more meaningful, and connected to nature.

We somehow stumbled upon the abandoned tea plantations of Georgia and the story of how Georgian tea had gone from riches to rags got us hooked. The new understanding of how nontransparent the tea industry is, with little to no information about the origins of the tea you can get in the supermarket, added another push to our dream to help bring Georgian tea back on the map. We started on a mission to rehabilitate abandoned tea plantations and to build the most transparent tea farm out there.

Without any prior experience or knowledge of tea, we have managed to rehabilitate 40 hectares of organic tea plantations, learned how to make tea that has won awards, and built a community of more than 2000 people who get their yearly tea from Renegade Tea Estate.

With our Georgian tea farm well established and increasingly taken care of by our local team members, we are ready to take on new challenges and build the most transparent olive farm out there!

This is our family - Hannes, Kristiina, Saskia and two camera-shy teenagers as well :)