About Us
About Us
Heke Homemade Herbals is owned and operated by Emma Heke aka The Tea Lady. We started with an idea, 4 herbs, a steep urban garden, a love of tea and a loathe of lawn-mowing. Initial trials of 4 herbal tea blends at the Nelson Market and via our Facebook Page saw immediate success with stock Sold Out and backorders. The next year and a half demand always outweighed supply and more and more NZ growers were sought and international suppliers came on board too. In 2017 we won the Business Innovation Award at the Nelson/Tasman Chamber of Commerce Business Awards. In 2019 we entered one Tea (Awake and Aware) in the Outstanding NZ Food Producer Awards and won a Silver Medal for our Tea and also an overall Runner-Up award for our Sustainable Packaging. In 2020 we entered another Tea (Soothe) in the same awards and again won Silver. We've had some excellent coverage in the New Zealand Life and Leisure magazine, Stuff and Wild Tomato.
