SXSW is almost upon us! AND, as always, we here at Sweet Leaf Tea have been putting together a good time filled with smiles, music, iced-teas, and high-fives in a week-long package sealed with Granny’s love!

During March 8th thru March 17th be on the look out throughout the city for the Tea’m and some peculiarly familiar smiles……. (more to come on this front to come during SXSW) [Hint: See Below]

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Partnering up, Partner!

- Cesar Chavez and Red River from March 8th – 13th from 11am – 6pm

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Tito’s Trolley! — Tito’s Vodka is running a trolley throughout SXSW to get you from one place to the other, saving your leg muscles for DANCING! AND, you guessed it, we’ll be providing GALLONS of tea for your drinking pleasure on the route. Check out their schedule and follow #TitosTrolley on Twitter for locations and stops!

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Events? More Like TEA-vents!

SLT will be available across the city at the events below, and believe-you-me it will be a tea party. We have painstakingly curated the best events in town to partner with and MAN-OH-MAN will they be GRAND! Click on the event name for the line-up and RSVP, click on the location to get a google map!

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Epic Interactive 3/9/2012 — 7pm – 1am — The Belmont

HIGHLIGHTS: Grab a free tea and dance to the sounds of Delta Spirt and Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.

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Make Fuzzy Tracks 3/13 — 7pm – 11pm — Key Bar

HIGHLIGHTS: Awesome Photobooth. Sweet Leaf Tea. Great People. Intimate venue. He’s My Brother She’s My Sister performing.

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Austinist Presents SXSW – 3/14 — 11:30am – 6pm — The Mohawk

HIGHLIGHTS: Top Buzz bands highlighted! Great venue!

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Gram Parsons Foundation Launch Party! 3/14 — 11am – 7pm — Hotel San Jose Parking Lot

HIGHLIGHTS: 100% your Sweet Leaf Tea Purchase goes to the Gram Parson Foundation for musicians! Away from downtown craziness.

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**Music by the Slice! (MXTS) 3/16 — 11am – 9pm — Homeslice Pizza ** DANNY’s Top Pick!

HIGHLIGHTS: 100% OF Profits from concessions go to URBAN ROOTS! GREAT PIZZA! Away from downtown craziness.

BANDS TO NOT MISS: Imperial Teen (11:35am) — Yukon Blonde (12:10pm) — Family of the Year (5:25)

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**DANNY'S TOP PICK**

**South by San Jose (SXSJ) 3/16 – 3/18 — 11am – 7pm — Hotel San Jose Parking Lot ** DANNY’s Top Pick

HIGHLIGHTS: 3 days of great bands for FREE! Best Michelada in town! Away from downtown craziness.

BANDS TO NOT MISS: Yukon Blonde (2ish on 3/16) — Alabama Shakes (6ish on 3/17) — TENNIS (2ish on 3/18)

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The BIG One 3/16 — 11am – 1am — The Belmont

HIGHLIGHTS: Day long event that you won’t want to leave! Local products for consumption. DEAD CONFEDERATE Headlining!

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Morning After Party! -- 3/16 — 12pm – 6pm — Frontgate Tickets Parking Lot

HIGHLIGHTS: JONNY CORNDAWG is playing! Awesome breakfast tacos!

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**Our Friends at Knuckle Rumbler have several showcases, RVSP and Get there early for great opening acts and cold TEA!**

Perveyors of ROCK 3/14 — 12pm – 8pm — Peckerheads

Vaya con TACOS 2 3/16 — 12pm – 8pm — Peckerheads [SO GOOD, they did it again! Round 2!]

LaunchPad 3/17 — 12pm – 8pm – Peckerheads

Look for me out there and follow @SweetLeafDanny - @SweetLeafCharla - and of course @SweetLeafTea for action packed information on SXSW!

-SweetLeafDanny!

YOU’RE IN LUCK!

I’m going to share with you one of my favorite snack ideas that wil rock your house and fight D-fence against snack boredom! Plus, it pairs fantastically with an ice cold Sweet Leaf Tea.

SUPER kale chips BOWL!

This quick, cheap, easy, and healthy snack will keep you coming back for more! It’s full of great flavor, fiber, and takes 20 minutes from start to finish.

NOTE: This snack’s earthy taste goes great with our Original Sweet Leaf Tea!

{makes about 4 servings}

What you need:

- 2 bunches of Kale

- 1.5 tablespoon EVOO [Extra Virgin Olive Oil]

- Seasoned salt or sea salt

What you do:

1. Preheat oven to 325º F

2. Wash kale in warm water and dry, preferably in a salad spinner

3. Tear kale into chip sized pieces from the stem and place in a large mixing bowl

4. Add olive oil to kale and mix by hand until all leaves have been coated

5. Place on a non-insulated cookie sheet and sprinkle sea salt or seasoned salt over lightly (about 2 to 3 teaspoons)

6. Bake for 15 minutes or until edges are brown but not burnt

ENJOY!

If you have any great #TeaSnackys, let us know in the comment box below! We’d love to hear from you!

- @SweetLeafDanny

Unsweet Lemon Lime Won Self Magazine’s Healthy Star Award!

Coining Grannyism #79 from YOU, the Fans!

Keeping you cool at Austin City Limits and Lollapalooza!

Partnering with Friends of Barton Springs to Clean the Springs Monthly!

If you have been a fan of Sweet Leaf Tea for a while, keep up with us on the twitters, and the facebooks; then you know that we are long time supporters of Big Brothers Big Sisters. Our Founder Clayton Christopher was a BIG for many many years and it began to engrain itself into the SLT DNA! After that we have sponsored events, and even more employees picked up littles to help shape them and their futures.

Friday, in true Sweet Leaf form, we donated 40+ Dell Laptops and desktops to BBBS! See the Press Release HERE.  We loaded up the Sweet Leaf Tea Sprinter Van, packed up the whole tea’m and hit the road with over $15,000 worth of computers, several cases of tea, and a huge smile on all of our faces!

These computers will go the kids and families in the Central Texas Area, and will be used for school, developmental skills, and extracurricular activities! Check out the photos of the tea’m hand delivering the computers to the Big Brothers Big Sisters Headquarters. How you enjoy scanning through them as much as we did giving them!

2012 is here and we couldn’t be more excited. It’s a time to put away the past and look to the future. Remember these Grannyisms for 2012, “Early bird gets the worm,” but “Don’t put the cart before the horse,” and “Everything in moderation, including moderation!” (#7)(#34)(#35). These will help guide you into the future with great success!

Speaking of fresh starts, one way Sweet Leaf Tea can help you with your “Fresh Starts” for 2012 is hidden in, or not hidden, in our Unsweet Lemon Lime tea!

0 calories —  0 sweetner  – hint of lemon and lime – Fresh brewed and great tasting! It’ll help you kick that high fructose corn syrup soda outta your hand and set you on the fresh and healthy track for 2012. Pick one up at your local Whole Foods Market!

For 2012 what are your goals, resolutions, thoughts?

Are you going to work out more? Eat healthier? Be kinder to strangers? High-Five more? Let us know below!

I’ll leave you with my resolution: “Quality over Quantity”