For several years we have been trying pruning tea in different ways. As I grew up on an agricultural experimental substation around research scientists, it is in my nature to experiment with the plants I am growing. So many producers cut their tea bushes very low and some even replace the plants after only a [...]
Our tea factory is going at full speed now. We work on tea most all the time. Besides picking bushels of fresh green leaves daily and processing, we have to fill and seal the mylar bags, and pack 6 oz loose leaf bags and make our little boxes of individual cup size tea bags. We [...]
Yes, the tea is now experiencing an explosive flush. I think it's the hurricanes because everything is growing fast at an exceptional pace. Fresh green leaves are hiding the broken bones of the big trees laying all around us. What once was our shade garden is now quite sunny after the storm removed the tree [...]
Spring has sprung down in South Alabama but the tea plants have not gotten the memo. They soon will and the buds will swell and these rather beat up, well pruned and hurricaned plants will be covered in a soft mat of fresh green growth. That is when the production year will began and will [...]
Thank you for ordering our tea online in this special, one time offer. It made us nervous getting several orders the first few days but it has proven to be manageable. The worse part is standing in the Post Office lines with boxes but fortunate for me, my lovely wife is doing that for me. [...]
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 [...]
