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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Mate in the South Africa Red Bush.
Meta Mate's mission is to engage family farms and rescue small scale production where the local farmers have access to the very best quality they might export to importing countries. Besides that we wish to make agreements with the right industrial partners to...
ÖkoTest: Anthraquinone-free Mate
A recent report in the February 2017 edition of the German consumer rights magazine 'Öko-Test' denouncing daily mate consumption due to health-risks comes to us as no surprise at all. The benefits of drinking mate on a regular basis are extolled by health food &...
Mate Production & Consumption: Ecological Footprint
Meta Mate Berlin and the Mate e.V. want to promote awareness about the ecological footprint of consuming mate, targeting to inform both consumers and producers of the different options. There are different sources of the mate herb, different ways of drying it in...
MaTrade & Travels
Supporting our mission to promote the culture of Mate in an international context, these past few months have been busy with various travel.s We recently attended a meeting between the Brasilian and German Chambers of Commerce to represent the Mate Sector. Discussed...
Caffeine Hackathon 2016
It was a Sunny Saturday afternoon for the Caffeine Hackathon put on by Meta Mate and Guarana Brause on September 10th 2016 and it spilled into a splendid evening with a community of hard core mate enthusiasts. Opening up with a mate circle, we were joined by...
Harvest 2016 & Green Mask
The long summer days in Berlin are fading away. We had some busy months of travels and events that we will report of when we have a minute to catch our breathe, but we have been very busy since the new harvest arrived in Mid-August. We are currently optimizing our...
Artisanal HandMate 2016
Silky, smokey and soft.....those were the first thoughts while opening the battered box that had been thoroughly inspected by customs before arriving in Berlin. A month ago this mate was part of a forest, now it is here, overwhelming all the senses with it's emerald...
The Dream Harvest
On a very special icy Winter's morning in the Seberi valley of Southern Brazil all the elements of the dream meta mate harvest were lined up: it was full moon and it was dawn on the morning of the first frost of Winter. In collaboration with Meta Mate Germany, the...