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Delicious Cranberry Cream Cheese Scones recipe to pair with Black Magnolia, Black tea.

When you are looking to plant a number of tea plants, does the origin of the tea seed really matter? As it turns out, yes it does! In March of this year we planted some seeds from Taiwan. This means we now have seeds from Georgia, Nepal, India and now Taiwan on our US tea farm here in Brookhaven, Mississippi. Although they are all Camellia Sinensis each seed performs differently.  Each seed is bred for different conditions with a different mother plant. Having a wide variety provides us with varying growing habits and potential flavors. It is also disease protection, to keep us from being a "monocropping" situation from direct cloning. If a disease comes in and wipes out a plant,...

We catch up with world renowned tea processor Beverly Wainwright of the Scottish Tea Factory to talk about the new collaborative tea Roasty Toasty Green tea. A tea that is described as a "hug in a mug".

Guest blogger Jim Karegeannes uncovers the surprising history of tea in the 1800's in Brookhaven, MS.

Here is a look at our journey to starting a tea farm in the USA.