Guess how many people work this plantation?
5!!! (are you seeing a pattern here:) The tea here is not handpicked as it is in most countries (which I assume provides jobs for many), but rather is collected at the hands of THE GREEN GIANT!!!! (btw, after we got off the trolly ride of the plantation fields, we were headed back to the shop and factory to take a tour. My girls were PETRIFIED to go back; because they were afraid of The Green Giant, that the tour guide spoke of:O It was then that I walked them over to introduce them to The Green Giant, below. They felt much better:)
This is the ONLY tea plantation in the entire Unitied States; another interesting fact, no pesticides are used on the leaves of tea plants, as tea leaves are very hardy and resistent. However, this is not organic tea, because nitrates are still used in the soil. The plantation is working on other methods to make their tea organic.
Did you know, it takes five pounds of tea leaves to make one pound of tea? (there's that five theme again:)
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