AYA is a family-owned house sourcing single-origin botanical powders direct from the farmers who tend them. No blends. No commodities. No shortcuts.
AYA means a sign — in Arabic, a verse of the Quran, a mark of meaning. We chose it because every powder we carry is a mark of a specific place, a specific season, a specific pair of hands. Nothing here is arbitrary.
We don't manufacture. We source. We refuse the anonymous supply chain of industrial tea and spice. Every pouch is traced to a specific farm, a specific season. When the year shifts, so does the cup — and that is the point.
Five countries. Ten botanicals. Each with its own history, altitude, and character.
Every powder is traced to one farm, one harvest. No blending across regions. The terroir stays pure — you taste a specific place, a specific season.
Leaves and flowers are harvested by the people who grew them — not machines. Machine picking tears indiscriminately. Hand picking selects at the right stage of the leaf's life.
Granite millstones turn slowly. No heat-generating industrial grinders that flatten the aroma. The powder keeps its life, its color, its depth.
Our pouches are metallized kraft — recyclable, oxygen-barrier, no petroleum plastic. The packaging protects what's inside. It also makes the economics honest: good material, fair cost, nothing wasted on a box.
We pay our growers directly, fairly, without middlemen. Long-term relationships, not commodity purchases.
We don't pre-stock. Each batch is milled and packed fresh when needed. Shelf life is preserved by oxygen-barrier packaging, not by additives.