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Oolong tea is rarely made in the USA. We have used innovation at our tea farm here in Brookhaven, Mississippi to develop our distinct flavor of Oolong tea.

This year we entered the Golden Leaf Awards. This Australian awards program recognizes quality teas from Australia and other teas imported and sold commercially.  We are so incredible proud, not only to have participated with such a great country in their tea awards, but also to have won some outstanding awards. Here is our award winners:   Grilled Southern Peach Tea (Gold Winner) This fantastic flavored tea is great hot or cold. It is cold smoked to bring out the grilled flavor. As of January 20th, this award winning tea is still in stock. Mississippi Sunshine Yellow Tea (Gold Winner) Yellow tea is a rare tea and typically only made and sold in China. This tea has all the flavors of...

There are so many great stories at the tea farm. Jason is sharing about one of the tea plants displayed at the front of the farm.   This tea plant was donated to the farm from a lovely person from Hattiesburg. It was shared that the plants were acquired from Lipton Tea which they brought over to the US after fearing tea imports could be impacted by overseas relations. It was the 50’s, a difficult time for some international relations and Lipton wanted to test out tea growing.   The research station closed down some years ago. But some of the plants still remain throughout Mississippi. The tea plant donation, allows us to preserve a bit of history in a...

Every fall we collect a large number of seed pods from the tea plants to process them for spring. Starting new plants from seeds is the best way to develop new tea plants as they will develop a long tap root. Tea cuttings will create new plants, but they will not establish the long taproot. The longer the tap root the more drought tolerant the plant is and with every tea plant being an investment of time and product, it is important to develop the healthiest of plants. Tea plant seeds start out with a very tough outer shell. We will collect a large number of tea seeds and then set them out in the sun for a period of time...