Beaver Moon Stillness & Sip
Moon Room, Evolation Yoga Atlanta
An hour of gentle yin & meditation, followed by a mindful matcha ceremony led by Lily, with Raw Materials’ seasonal flavor: Spiced Apple & Maple.
In 2020 I stopped drinking coffee and started drinking tea. I began with matcha and chai lattes, and I spent that year looking for the best chai in cafés and posting reviews to my Instagram and Snapchat stories. Then I started making matcha at home, with different powders, milks, and sugars.
In 2024 I went to Tokyo for the first time and bought matcha from a local shop. The first time I made tea with it, I took a sip before adding milk or sugar. My eyes widened. I gasped. It was more delicious than anything I had known before. At this point, I stopped going to cafés because I couldn't find a drink better than what I could make at home.
By 2025, I was working from home and drinking tea almost every hour. I would consider myself a tea mixologist with the number of recipes I have tested and repeated. My most surprising combo: tea and sparkling water. This is the recipe that set my tea consumption apart from anyone else I know.
Raw Materials began in 2026 when I was drinking so much tea that I needed a better way to buy it. I'm now a wholesale partner with Spirit Tea, which works directly with farmers. Every day I learn a little bit more about tea and its origins so I can bring that knowledge to my customers.
Raw Materials is a pop-up café where I bring my love of tea on the go. Local community is at the center of everything we do. Our favorite partners are local business owners, wellness studios, and mission-driven people. We are working toward a market stand at farmers markets around Atlanta in spring 2027.