The Tea Club is is a small community project for local people to learn more about tea. The club has 16 members who planted several tea plants in their own home gardens in 2018. The group get together annually and the tea factory provides ongoing group support in the form of emails and occasional workshops as needed. It takes 6 years for tea plants to grow to maturity so depending on how well they thrive, we hope eventually to pick and also use leaf from plants at the tea factory to make a small amount of “communiTEA”. We would plan to use any tea we produce to create a blend to sell locally, with any profits going back into the community or towards a charity.