We are Chris & Adrian Lewis-Chang, husband-and-husband team and founders of Two Trees Tea House. We live within the coastal redwoods of Northern California with our dogs Bee & Eydie, and our ever growing flock of chickens.

One hot Summer's evening, we met and fell in love in Tokyo. After a decade of making Japan our home, we followed each other around the Asian continent from Singapore, to Malaysia to Sri Lanka. Every step of the way, tea was by our side. Nearly 15 years later, we would find ourselves married and in the redwood forests of Occidental in West Sonoma County, California. This is where Two Trees Tea House was born.

We are a family-run tea house and mercantile of organic, truly ethically-sourced teas & wares. While we are not a cafe, as a tea house we are dedicated to bringing community together through the sharing of tea, culture and storytelling.

Chris was born in London and raised in Zambia in Southern Africa. As the Creative Communications Director for Harrods of Knightsbridge international business, Chris designed and built shopfits for tea rooms, restaurants & retail shops charged with sharing the "legacy" of one of Great Britain's first & largest tea merchants. It goes without saying, after years of scouring Harrod's historical archives, England's dark contribution to the colonial evils of the tea industry made it impossible for Chris to continue with this work. After leaving Harrods, he continued to create his own tea blends sourced only from gardens he knew to be ethically run outside of a British imperial framework. And after years of feeling disconnected to the true world of tea, Chris decided he needed to do his part in righting the wrongs of his ancestors. Thus was born the framework upon which Two Trees would be built.

Adrian was born and raised in San Francisco as the 3rd generation of Southern Chinese immigrants. Having grown up torn between American society and a distant ancestral connection, it was the tea & food of Chinese culture which would help Adrian weave a sense of identity and belonging. After turning his back on a decades long career in the fashion industry, Adrian turned his attention to sharing tea and cultural foodways through writing, storytelling and community organizing. In Chinese culture, a tea house serves a multitude of purposes as a place to gather, eat and of course drink. Beyond all that, a tea house is both a sanctuary and organism for togetherness, conversation and community care. It is within the walls of a tea house, over a pot of tea, where kinship is forged, culture and stories shared, and ideas and inspiration are transformed into action.