Precious D. Jones is modest about her accomplishments, to the point she is often quick to identify herself as a novice who just started experimenting with throwing leaves and herbs together for her business, Me Plus Tea.
But in the downstairs level of her Athens residence, Jones combines Black history and internationally-sourced tea leaves with locally-grown herbs, some of which come from her own backyard, to create unique blends that soothe and restore.
Growing up in Oconee County, Jones’s childhood experience with tea was one that most Georgians are familiar with: the sweet kind that’s served over ice. But as she got older, her literary interests lead her to Herbert C. Covey’s “African American Slave Medicine,” a book that details the plant and herbal remedies that slaves used to provide medical care for themselves.