For all the tea in Hawai`i...

by Shannon Amidon Castille This article was originally published last spring from UH Hilo’s College of Pharmacy’s Kawili La’au magazine.   Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary.  ~Chinese Proverb If you had a little money to invest, where should you put it? Dr. Anthony D. Wright has a suggestion: how about a tea farm? Why? Green, First Flush, White, Oolong, Black, and...

Small-scale Tea Growing and Processing in Hawaii...

Originally published by CTAHR in 2003, this document (click here to download) is a guide to the University’s research efforts into growing camellia sinensis (tea plants) on the Big...

Hawaii Grown Tea...

By Eva Lee What do these words mean? Why have they become so important after several years of effort by so many people? The Camellia sinensis tea grown in Hawaii is an agriculture crop reintroduced in 2001 by horticultural research from the Pacific Basin Agriculture Research Center USDA and continued experimentation with the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources. The formation of potential...