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After Hurricane Helene washed away her tea business, she's calmly working to rebuild

Nov 13, 2024
"It is going to take funding, and it is going to take a lot of support," says Jessie Dean, owner of Asheville Tea Co. in North Carolina.
Jessie Dean (second from right), owner of Asheville Tea Co., works with chrysanthemums harvested after the storm.
Courtesy Jessie Dean

5 ways to treat your allergies on the cheap

May 4, 2018
Because this allergy season is longer and worse than last year.
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English plantation now sends tea to China

Oct 31, 2016
England has just one tea plantation but its owners have big global ambitions.
Neil Bennett, head gardener at the Tregothnan Estate, inspects in the tea garden the tea plant Camellia sinensis near Truro, England. 
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A spot of . . . coffee?

Sep 12, 2014
Who drinks more coffee, cops or journalists?

British Airways and Twinings make tea time tastier at 35,000 feet

Jan 30, 2013
British Airways and Twinings have teamed up to introduce a special line of teas for high altitude consumption.

Wholesale tea prices on the rise

Aug 8, 2012
It turns out that bad weather elsewhere in the world is affecting global tea prices. The cost of good quality, black tea has shot up 41 percent on the wholesale market this year.

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