We offer award winning US grown loose-leaf tea at wholesale pricing. It is possible for you to add a USA grown tea product to your store or business from the Great Mississippi Tea Company. Get access to wholesale pricing on bulk orders and add a product to your shelves that many people cannot get just anywhere. Why should you buy a US grown tea? The growing conditions in Mississippi allow for us to grow a fantastic cup of tea. All tea is grown from a Camellia Sinensis plant but the growing conditions can impact some of the flavor of your team as well as how it is processed. But at The Great Mississippi Tea Company we have used innovation...
With the recent heat waves all over, cooling down has been so important. In the South, we love our sweet teas for just that. A tall cold glass of sweet tea tastes like happiness on a hot and humid day. This recipe helps you turn the Great Mississippi Tea Company Grilled Southern Peach tea into an awesome and super pretty beverage. Serve it to guests and impress them with your US grown tea, mixed with beautiful peaches. Not this recipe is sweet! If you do not love your sweet tea sweet, play with the sugar and honey mixture a bit. Only add a little at a time. Some of us here are big fans of this completely sugar free. So have...
We have been testing a method to grow tea plants from stick cuttings and have found it has been working well. This method may not be easy for everyone, as it does require some investment in materials in order to make it work. Why are we doing it this way? To reduce the number of steps in creating new tea plants. We are skipping the step between rooting, potting over and hardening off. Essentially, we are taking a plant from cutting to the tea fields. Requirements: Deep pots. Soil for planting (well draining loose soil, acidic 4.5 - 5.5 PH). Watering system or ensuring adequate watering. Shade cloth or shaded area. Temperatures 85F. The steps to planting a tea plant cutting...
How to prune a tea plant. We often get asked, "how do you prune a tea plant" The tea plant shown above has been in the field for 3 years now. This is the year we see the most tremendous growth. On the branch we are holding, you can see the prune marks on the bushes where the branch changes from grey, to new growth which is green. We want to follow a set of prune heights to form a well framed bush and get the most harvestable tea out of the tea plant. "We let the plant grow up twice height between the previous cut." What are the steps to pruning a tea plant? 1. Let the plant grow...
This post is written by GMTC team member, Jollean Smith. June is Pride month, an incredibly important month in the LGBTQ+ community. However, it is often very misunderstood by those outside of it. When Jason and Timmy came to me and said “what are we doing for Pride?” it was something for me as a marketer and ally, that I had to really consider. And after much consideration, what I really wanted to accomplish is sharing together. To share together a better understanding of Pride, there seemed to me no better way to do this than through Jason and Timmy. Our goal here is share together, for the purpose of a better understanding of Pride. I feel some passion around...
