English Breakfast
A soothing and rejuvenating cup of English breakfast tea has many benefits including detoxifying the body, reducing cholesterol levels, improving heart health, and promoting mental health.
Profits from this invigorating blend will go toward supporting educational resources for promising youth. We believe children are our future. Join us in a promise to our youth as they learn, grow and rise. Your tea choice may inspire you to make the world, and the future, a better place.
Organic Oolong Tea
When consumed on the regular basis, Oolong tea helps burn fat faster by raising your metabolism, lowers cholesterol, increases mental alertness, and strengthens the immune system.
Profits from this inspiring blend will help fund the arts. The arts, a community's soul, connect us to each other and the human condition. Without them, we'd be emotionally dead. And you can't drink tea when you're dead.
Organic Green Tea
Green tea is loaded with antioxidants and nutrients that have powerful effects on the body. These include a lower risk of cancer, improved brain function, fat loss, stress reduction, anti-aging and anti-allergy benefits.
Profits from this tea will fund supportive services for patients and their families. We all have been touched in some way by a cancer diagnosis. In honor of the indefatigable spirit that rises to meet this challenge, we offer a blend of green teas. We hope it delights your taste buds, soothes your soul, and offers you joy.
Organic Black Tea with Natural Meyer Lemon Flavor
This tea has many of the health benefits associated with black tea. Meyer lemons are a cross between a lemon and mandarin orange. They are a burst of lemon flavor without the lip-puckering tartness. The juicy lemony taste and fragrant aroma of this tea is a delight any time of day, hot or iced.
Profits from this tea will fund LGBTQ groups, as well as transgender youth through their transitioning. Water envelops the tea bag, which then blooms and reaches its potential. We support the LGBTQ community in its brave expression reflected proudly in this vibrant blend.
Our Roots
In the late 1800’s, T. Bache Bleecker and Harriman N. Simmons founded Bleecker & Simmons Tea in New York City where it flourished during the Edwardian Age in America. As partners, they moved their business in 1918 from Greenwich Street to 90 Front Street where they donated part of their four-story building to the Committee for the Coffee, Tea, and Spice. The Simmons Spice Mill, a trade publication, is known to have supported the manufacturing of paper products rather than tin in an effort to support troops during World War I. The Great Depression and ill health caused the business to decline.
A New Vision: Tea With A Purpose
Michael Everett is originally from Toms River, NJ and is the son of Sarah Everett (nee Simmons). Michael worked 32 years at Atlantic City High School, first as an English teacher and then as a Guidance Counselor. Upon retiring from the public school system he became the Director of the Champions of Youth program that serves disadvantaged youth through community partnerships. His creation of this unique program encouraged high school students of Atlantic City to stretch beyond the traditional classroom setting and transcend boundaries to ensure success.
“I have long believed a life of service is one of the ways we afford ourselves and others a more meaningful existence. The focus of the resurrected Bleecker & Simmons Tea, founded in 2018, is to contribute to building a better, stronger community. I have dedicated 100% of the company’s profits to serving and supporting those who are in need, are marginalized, or are under served. The company’s purpose is congruent with principles which have guided my life and to which I have committed my resolve, my time, and my energy. ”
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