Top; The process of tea making is shown and how the process moves in stages.
Left; An array of equipment is used to take the tea from its plant state to a finished product. Right; Gipson shows how the process works.
“We would do large tours where people could come, bring a group, and do a 2-3 day tour making tea from start to finish,” McDonald said. “So we took it all online. We just had to figure out how to make tourism a digital thing.” 34 BROOKHAVEN MAGAZINE
As a gay-owned company in small town Mississippi, McDonald said it is really a non-issue now. While they have had people in the past drive by and yell rude things out the window, for the most part they haven’t had issues. “People have been great here, (but)
our customer base isn’t here,” McDonald said. “The people who would have an issue with us aren’t paying $1,000 for a pound of tea.” While the tea farm is out in the countryside of Lincoln County, Gipson said he is still surprised when people say
