Time for tea with a difference

‘Hemp is the future’, so they say, and one particular entrepreneur has launched a new tea that embodies the highly-nutritious seeds of the hemp plant to create a delicious hot drink. Leonard Harper Gow roasts then crushes the hemp seeds to release their unique flavour, before adding dried mint, lavender and rose petals. He tells us: ‘Everyone loves the flavour and it has so many good things in it. We have mint, lavender and roses on our small Borders farm and hope to get a licence to grow hemp soon.’ Leonard’s Hemp Seed Tea is available in shops in Edinburgh, East Lothian, the Borders and Northumberland, and can also be purchased online. leonardshempseedtea.com