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  1. The process The process · The Rooibos Nobody Drank Is Dyeing Sneakers in Tokyo Global fashion and footwear brands, including ASICS and PANGAIA, dye clothing with leftover rooibos tea waste. No source says whether the Cederberg sees a cent of it.
  2. The trade · The Farmer Who Bought Back the Farm He Worked for Wages Jacobus Koopman used a government land-reform loan to buy the Suid Bokkeveld farm where he had worked for wages. He and thirteen neighbours turned that into Heiveld, an organic rooibos co-operative that later had to defend its independence from its own government.
  3. The trade The trade · Who Gets to Call It Rooibos? The Fight for a Plant’s Name A Texan company spent four years demanding money from anyone who used the word "rooibos" to sell tea, until a US court struck its trademark down. Here is how South Africa lost the name, won it back, and built three separate legal shields so it could never happen again.
  4. The plant · Rooibos and Honeybush Are Not Cousins, Not Really Both are caffeine-free, both grow only in the Cape, and both get called "the other South African tea." Past that, they are two different plants from two different tribes of the legume family, two different mountain ranges, and two different antioxidants, and the historical record on how each was actually brewed is stranger than either box on the shelf lets on.
  5. The trade · Four Times Someone Tried to Own the Word Rooibos The famous fight over the word "rooibos" ran from 1993 to 2005 in a US courtroom. It was not the first attempt to own the name, and it was not the last. Here are the other three, including the one the industry's own founding family gave back on its own.
  6. The trade The History of Rooibos The full history of rooibos, from a wild Cederberg shrub used by the Khoisan, through Benjamin Ginsberg's 1904 trade and Pieter Nortier's 1930 cultivation breakthrough, to the trademark fights and the protected name it carries today.
  7. The place The Cederberg The Cederberg is the Western Cape mountain range that researchers place at the centre of rooibos's wild range: its acid sand, winter rain and fires, and where each source draws the edge of rooibos country.
  8. The plant The plant Rooibos Rooibos is the caffeine-free infusion made from Aspalathus linearis, a needle-leaved legume grown in South Africa's Cederberg.