In mid September, my husband and I visited the tea plantation in Charleston, South Carolina.
This was the first, and for a long time, the only tea plantation in the U.S., but it is no longer the only place in the country where tea is cultivated. There are people in the states of Hawaii and Washington who are now also growing tea. This tea garden in South Carolina, however, is still the nation’s only commercially operated tea plantation.
Inside the tea processing plant:
A Tea Flower–There are hundreds of varieties of Camellia Sinensis that are used to produce tea.
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