The organic farming trend is making its stamp on the island state and on a product sparsely grown in the United States.
Organic farming is in full swing across the United States, even in far-away Kauai, where Michelle Rose of Cloudwater Tea Farm is making the trend uniquely her own. Not only is she running the island's only tea farm, her husband and business partner, architect Parker Croft, has constructed a series of Hawaiian-influenced bungalows to house the couple and their children. Eventuallly it will serve as a guest-house for travelers looking to experience the art of tea.
Rose is a former flight attendant from Minnesota who bought 10 acres of rough, jungle-like land in Kauai and for 10 years has been experimenting with growing the tea plant camellia sinensis. She's planning a series of classes and workshops, and hopes to inspire other farmers in Hawaii to take up tea growing, as...
Organic farming is in full swing across the United States, even in far-away Kauai, where Michelle Rose of Cloudwater Tea Farm is making the trend uniquely her own. Not only is she running the island's only tea farm, her husband and business partner, architect Parker Croft, has constructed a series of Hawaiian-influenced bungalows to house the couple and their children. Eventuallly it will serve as a guest-house for travelers looking to experience the art of tea.
Rose is a former flight attendant from Minnesota who bought 10 acres of rough, jungle-like land in Kauai and for 10 years has been experimenting with growing the tea plant camellia sinensis. She's planning a series of classes and workshops, and hopes to inspire other farmers in Hawaii to take up tea growing, as...
- 11/29/2010
- by Jenara Nerenberg
- Fast Company
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