We have several one pound and twelve ounce bags of loose leaf tea left over from Christmas that we did not sell. We depend on tourist to come to the farm and buy tea but due to covid, tourism is now very slow. We usually do not ship tea but this time we are going [...]
This is a photo of the first tea bag I made on Christmas eve. It took me three days to put the apparatus together and learn how to work it. My good friend, Steve Lorch at Table Rock Tea Co sold me the machine and gave me complete instructions on how to set it up. [...]
After the last Hurricane Zeta, Oct 28, 2020, ATT cut our cable while rebuilding a junction box and cut off our land line telephone and internet service. We were shocked when they told us service will not be back up until the end of November so we have been out of touch for a while. [...]
On Sept 16, 2020 we were directly hit with a major storm. It actually lasted three days and has left the tea farm in a complete mess. We are only a mile from Mobile Bay where the eyewall passed over at 4:00 AM. And yes, it goes from screaming hurricane force winds to still and [...]
This is what is bugging me now. This area of about 11,000 plants is nine years old and never tasted chemical fertilizer. I have always fertilized with a good bank of decaying oak leaves. As the farm has gotten larger that has become more of a challenge. A horticulturist told me my plants looked nutritionally [...]
I have not made a post here is a while. Things are moving along at a steady pace with our tea production with us isolated down on the farm. We bagged 17 pounds of black yesterday in five gallon Mylar bags that require them to be ironed closed. I also am having a steady stream [...]
We are having some really busy days on the tea farm. Even though it is getting hot and we have already had a near-hurricane, we are picking, processing and making batches of green, black or both teas every day. The tea rows are at staggered heights and by the time you make your rounds, its [...]
On June 1, 2020 we have opened the tea plantation for tours and tea sales. We are glad to announce this as it has been rather quite down on the farm except for picking, processing and packing many pounds of fresh tea. We are glad to again be open as we rather enjoy meeting people [...]
This is actually three leaves joined together in a tea freak-show. Leaves grow large in the shade, their natural environment. They get small when grown out in the sun, their unnatural state which they have to be trained to tolerate. The leaf cells lay down flat to absorb light in the shade areas and the [...]
This is the tea rolling machine that I use to process tea that I mentioned in my last post. This web site has been a bit troublesome to post or maybe its the 70 yr old who is having the tech trouble. We are putting miles on this machine with a full hopper at least [...]
