Arts + Culture, Environment, Hawaiʻi Farm and Food

Hawaii’s Tea Farmers Demonstrate Commitment to the Art of Tea

In Hawaii, with its high cost of labor and land, locally grown tea, incapable of competing with the third-world’s commodity tea empires, falls into artisan, small-batch and specialty markets. To succeed in a niche that’s hyper-focused on quality and characterized by a long-term startup period, growers like the five here, who come from all manner […]