Bigelow buys last American tea plantation

Tea maker R.C. Bigelow has bought what is touted as the last American tea farm, located on the island of Wadmalaw, South Carolina.

A couple of interesting factoids from the article:

• The tea plant, Camellia sinensis, was introduced to the United States in the late 1790s by French explorer and botanist Andre Michaux.
  
• Ireland has the highest per-capita consumption of tea of any nation in the world.
  
• 85 percent of tea-drinking Americans drink their tea on ice.
  

—Mellow Monk

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