17 hand-packed basil cinnamon sachets
The production and packaging process at Ervas da Zoe is a mixture of manual and semi-mechanized.
In production, some plants are harvested with a machine, others are cut with scissors, one by one. The flowers are also hand-picked.
Packing follows the same process, some packed manually, others semi-automatically.
The choice of herbs, after drying, is always manual.
In tea herbs, plant selection with the aim of removing less-than-good looking leaves or plant parts is done manually somewhere along the way, after drying until they are packaged.
Some herbs used in tea in which only the leaf or flower is used, the process is entirely manual, thus allowing to obtain a high quality raw material, which only the human hand is capable of selecting.
For the sachets the packaging is done using a semi-automatic machine, with the placing of the sachets in the box being entirely manual.