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Tea is often thought of as being a quintessentially British drink yet despite us drinking it for over 350 years the true history of tea goes much further. The story of tea began in China. According to legend, in 2737 BC, the Chinese emperor Shen Nung was sitting beneath a tree while his servant boiled drinking water, when some leaves...

This month we visited the Satemwa Tea Estate located in Malawi, Africa. Established in 1923, Malawi is a small country in the southern part of Africa and was the first country in Africa where tea was planted commercially. In the early 1920’s the young Scot, Maclean Kay, bought his first piece of land in Malawi from a tobacco farmer to...