A family herb business since 1990.

In 1990, a small family team in the Balkans began cultivating native herbs on mountain land that had been worked by the same families for generations. The first crop was a single field of camomile, hand-harvested and dried in the open air. By the end of the decade, that field had grown into a vertical operation: cultivation, hand-harvesting, drying, sieving, blending, packaging in bulk, and direct distribution to family-run apothecaries, wellness houses, and tea retailers across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

Through the 2000s the operation expanded. More land, more herb varieties, more buyers. We became the upstream supplier for European brands that needed traceable raw material at a price Western EU farms could not match. We learned how a German procurement team audits a supplier. We learned what an Austrian wellness brand asks before it places a second order. We learned how to ship to a Swiss customs broker on time. We learned what EU food safety documentation looks like when a retailer wants the paperwork before the pallet.

By the 2010s our catalogue had grown to dozens of native herbs and aromatic plants: linden, sage, thyme, lemon balm, mountain tea, hibiscus, rosehip, peppermint, calendula. All traceable to the field. All shipped under our own quality control, not a third-party broker.

In 2026 we made one decision that the brands we already supply have been asking for: instead of selling them raw herbs to package elsewhere, we package the tea too.

The brand is Balkan Tea. The machine is the HST PT-2.33 - the European classic format, German engineering, double-chamber paper tea bag with string and paper tag. The mission is straightforward. Take 36 years of family supply chain discipline, plug it into a modern packaging line, and offer the result to the brands that have been asking for it.