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YERBA MATE MERGER: YUYO DRINKS BECOMES PART OF META MATE

YERBA MATE MERGER: YUYO DRINKS BECOMES PART OF META MATE

A perfect match for ethical mate The global rights to UK based yerba mate infusions brand YUYO DRINKS LTD1 have been acquired by German mate company META MATE2. The two ethical and organic brands are joining forces as a partnership, and operations for both companies...

Celebrating Caa’s Cuia

With its roots in the realm of the wild Gauchos, modern day mate culture is mostly male dominated.  Similar to the monocultural landscapes from where mate is sourced, its production sphere is generally dominated by patriarchal structures. Both are aimed at increasing...

Spreading and Sharing the Mate Culture

Spreading and Sharing the Mate Culture

The past few months have been busy times for Meta Mate as we continue with our efforts to spread and share the Mate culture.  Besides Fabricio's travels to South America to make the mate, and then to the US and now UK to present it, we have also been receiving many...

West Coast Mates

West Coast Mates

Meta Mate has been infiltrating the globe this past summer with a US tour to set the ball rolling for Meta Mate USA We had the pleasure to visit our friends at Noisebridge in the Bay Area for a mate hacking workshop and show them how to get wired in a natural way...

Legalisation and Preservation

Legalisation and Preservation

Great news to be shared is that the Gehm Barbacua is ready and will be inaugurated with the 2018 Dream Harvest on June 16th, 2018.  This is a milestone in our efforts to legalise the craft mate production by autonomous family producers.   A museum will be dedicated in...

Mate in Berlin Symposium

Mate in Berlin Symposium

Although most of the world wakes up with a cup of coffee everyday, there is a segment of the population that instead consumes mate on a daily basis, stated Conselheiro Durval Carvalho de Barros, as he opened the Mate in Berlin Symposium at the Brazilian Embassy on 30...

MATE in Berlin

MATE in Berlin

Germany is the largest European importer of Mate, and 100 years ago,  almost all of this mate was sourced from Brazil.  Brauses or bottled Mate carbonated drinks have been popular in the Belrin sub-culture since the early 1990's and today these mate drinks are...

Share…Connect…Mate…

Share…Connect…Mate…

Recently Pope Francis, a fellow mate drinker, gave a TED Talk emphasizing the importance of interconnection and tenderness "Tenderness means to use our eyes to see the other, our ears to hear the other, to listen to the children, the poor, those who are afraid of the...

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