Mississippi tea coming to your cup
Ginger Rowsey Thomas Steinwinder is an engineer turned tea farmer in Laurel, Miss. Mississippi may be better known as a place to drink tea than grow tea, but one new farmer is hoping to change that. Ten years ago, if you had asked Thomas Steinwinder to predict his future, he probably would not have anticipated starting a tea farm in Laurel, Miss. Sometimes life is hard to predict. Steinwinder and his wife, Hillary, launched Longleaf Tea Company in 2018. The couple started with 1,200 tea plants on farmland that has been in Hillary’s family for five generations. This spring,...
Source: farmprogress.com