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Finish First Flush

2019-06-11T15:48:33+00:00June 11th, 2019|

We have finished processing the first flush for this spring.  We made 92 pounds of finished tea, including black, Oolong and green teas.  We have already sold a good chunck of that with a drive up market going really well.  We have had folks from states far away come here for tea, in fact I [...]

Black Tea Production

2019-05-07T21:24:35+00:00May 7th, 2019|

Today we toasted, screened and packed 40.8 pounds of black tea.  We screen this tea as a more commercial product which I will sell to a local resort area.  We have whole leaf black tea, as well as green and Oolong, which we sell in 5oz and 10 oz bags.  Come and just enjoy the [...]

March Flush

2019-03-28T19:51:16+00:00March 28th, 2019|

This is one of our shade grown areas which is covered with the first flush of the year ready to be picked.  Some areas are even more developed than is shown in this photo.  I have never picked tea in March , usually in April and in some years the first of May.  I guess [...]

Tea Flowers are Blooming.

2019-01-06T17:44:39+00:00January 6th, 2019|

January 6, 2019  Today I had a professional photographer come out and photograph the tea flowers.  With the warm weather there are many thousands of blossoms now (as well on my big Camellias).  I am wanting a real glamor shot of a flower to put on the new labels I am designing.  My old labels [...]

Shade Grown Tea

2019-02-18T18:49:53+00:00December 28th, 2018|

Dec 28, 2018  Today we are cutting into the shade grown tea rows and pruning back this years growth.  The leaves are larger, as I explained in my growing tea section, darker and really pretty.  I rather hate to chop them down with my Black and Decker pruner but this is why they are here [...]