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The United States League of Tea Growers

Even though North America is dominated by coffee, tea is emerging thanks to health and wellness trend specially among younger generation. Hawaii is known for her tea for few decades, but the passion of tea growing has already spread to USA mainland as well. Charleston tea plantation in South Carolina is the best example comes to my mind. Since USA is the No 1 viewer of “Tea with Nipun” website with 2809 users so far, I decided to bring more information on “The United States League of Tea Growers” (USLTG) for USA tea enthusiasts and of course specially for those who wish to grow tea in the US mainland.

Objectives of This reputed organization are to pass knowledge for specialty tea growing, encourage collaboration between tea growers, promote tea agriculture, recruit academia to teach “best practices” for growers, and represent US tea growers across the world.

Members, Image Credit: The United States League of Tea Growers

The US tea growers league has been made up of dedicated tea growers, educators, enthusiasts, and retailers to actively encourage growth and production of high value specialty teas within the US. They provide education, resources, and support in all facets of your tea growing journey!

There is also a Pacific North West group under the main body. Members have the privilege of doing variety of businesses that can assist them with getting camellia sinensis plants, domestically grown finished tea, and other resources for learning more about the world of tea. Main officials of USLTG are as follows,

Mark Adams – The President

Angela McDonald – The Secretary

Advisory Committee & Founding Members are Nigel Melican and Jason McDonald

So if there is anyone in the US who wish to grow tea, it’s really worth joining with this reputed tea organization.

Becomes a member: https://usteagrowers.com/join-us

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References

1.The United States Tea Growers League Official Website: https://usteagrowers.com/

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Nipun Wisnagalage
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Iced Tea Popsicles to Beat The Heat

Tea has become the most popular beverage in the world after water due to so many special features of this wonderful, refreshing, calming, stimulating and healthy beverage. USA is a Coffee dominating market. But in the recent past, tea has started to emerge thanks to health and wellness trend specially among younger generation. USA tea lovers generally prefer their tea in cold form. Now it’s late summer / early autumn for North America and Europe. So this is the ideal time for them to enjoy more and more iced tea. But tea’s application goes beyond a beverage. Have you ever thought of tea Popsicles ? That would be an ideal way of refreshment during this warm period.

All you need to do is to fetch a Popsicle mold and make Ice Pops with your favorite iced tea recipe. I would like to suggest below iced tea lemonade recipe with some modifications appeared on Sri Lanka Tea Board promotion website.

Ingredients for Iced Tea Lemonade

  • 1L of water
  • 6 tbsp of Ceylon black tea leaves
  • 3 cups of cold water
  • ¾ cup of sugar made into a syrup with ¾ of cup water (Better if you can use natural honey)
  • 1 cup of fresh lemon juice (Or you can use either orange or lime based on preference.
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Preparation:

Bring the litre of water to a boil, remove from heat and add tea leaves. Keep for 3-5 minutes. Stir and strain into a container, add the cold water and the cooled sugar syrup (Or honey). Pour in the lemon juice and mix well. Pour over ice cubes. Finally you can put the liquid in to Popsicle mold.

Also It’s better if you can add natural fruit pieces like strawberry, peach etc to enhance the taste and appearance.

Or else you can enjoy ice Pops made with The Republic of Tea’s Ginger Peach Iced Tea Popsicles recipe.

I am quite certain that this will be a great product to serve to your guests during this hot period.

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References

1.Sri Lanka Tea Board Recipe: https://www.pureceylontea.com/recipe/iced-tea-lemonade/

2.The Republic of Tea’s Recipe: http://the.republicoftea.com/tea-recipes/ginger-peach-iced-tea-popsicles/