I’ve seen where your tea comes from, and it is spectacular. We stopped in Haputale, in the foggy cloud forest highlands to hike around and look at some agriculture.
Tea trees most resemble little dense bushes and are kept around waist high. The fancier tea grows high up the mountain, and the (mostly female) tea harvesters pluck only the bud and the top two leaves and then toss them over their shoulder into the bushels that they carry on their back via a strap that they wear across their forehead. Lots of this beautiful tea is sold under the shockingly pedestrian Lipton label.
It seems like a really long way for Sri Lanka to your tea cup, and it is. But little green leaves are important enough to the world that wars get fought over them, or so I have heard.
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