The Great Mississippi Tea Co. In Brookhaven MS is a good HH. It is a tea grower, it has been 14 yers on a former dairy farm that has been in Timmy’s family for over 100 years. He came home to help care for grandparents and was told he and his brother now had farm. They didn’t want cattle but settled on growing tea. They have 7 acres planted and still have at least 20 acres left of the old farm. They sold off a lot of the land that wasn’t needed for this venture. Timmy gave us a tour of the crop land and the processing facility. He also explained the production and processing of tea. They do several kinds and a lot of it, green tea, yellow tea, black tea etc. is all from the same plant but with different harvesting and processing. We had no idea! He is going to bring us some hot tea for breakfast.
We had half interstate and half US-84 four lane today. US-84 looked just like an interstate, even bypassed the villages. In this case we didn’t gain a thing by not being on the big I.
We stopped for fuel and lunch in Jonesville, LA! And just to make me feel even more at home there were two big corn sprayers there too! And their nurse trucks. Ahh, the memories. With two rigs, if I played it right I could get a week’s work done in that stop. If you didn’t know me that long ago I made a living keeping tabs on those guys (and others) for the Ag Agency.
I didn’t realize there was that many ways to process tea. Will definitely be thinking about it the next cup I drink. 😀awesome photos of the flowers Doc.
ReplyDeleteLooks the flowers are blooming in Mississippi, and the weather seems to holding up for you and Carlene as well.
ReplyDeleteWell. T-seven days until Pat and start the journey south. Looking ar packing lists and began preparing the camper today. Long-tern forecast suggests we may be dodging some snow on Sunday.
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