Victorian Tea Garden
This tea garden is positioned at Mabian Yi minority autonomous county, southwest of China. What does a great tea garden has? Excellent scenery, like the San Antonio Japanese Tea Garden has, is a single important issue. Apart from attractive landscape, altitude, latitude, and average temperature are also critical for tea plantation.
1 of our tea garden is located in Mabian, southwest of China. Just about half quantity of individuals living in Mabian are Yi minority. Some of them who keep in remote regions still keep some ancient traditions, such as fire worship and nature worship. The total 2034 km² of lands of Mabian include over 1300km² of forests, some places of which are designated as wild Panda protection zone. By far, Mabian, far from polluted huge cities of China, has been an excellent environment for tea cultivation.
Altitude Location Average temp Harvest Time 1450meters E103°N28° 17.5°C Summer season Mabian Yi Autonomous County
Mabian situated at southwest of China, exactly where the main residents are Yi minority. Mabian is far from key cities, so the damage of atmosphere right here is tiny. Practically 100% soil and vegetation right here are pollution-totally free. The whole tea garden is in a valley, into which it takes near 4 hours to drive from the nearest town. Right after finishing a trek by way of those hilly roads that make you feel dizzy, you finally stamp on the ground of the tea garden. Then you look about and could see the sky reaching higher cliffs around the entire valley:
"Those cliffs are just like natural defenses, vital for defending the tea garden from becoming hurt by outside pollutions and pests." The manager says. She is a 30-year-old young woman. After functioning in IBM for 7 years, she chose to go home and operate in the tea garden.
"Pests are commonly transferred by wind power. Nevertheless, thanks to these cliffs, wind from outdoors can not do such thing." as opposed to the bush growing on steep cliffs, the tea trees can be cultivated in a garden that progressively rises up, like terracing. When you walk on trails in the tea garden, you can see streams beside the trail and the water inside streams flowing down from upper spot.
"The water comes down from these cliffs, cultivating the entire ecosystem insides the valley. Of course, we use these water to irrigate our plantation." The manager of the tea garden says.
"In the night, you will hear the croaking of the frogs, which is seriously, truly loud here. Frogs can consume pests, their appetite is truly huge."
"Besides frogs, we raise chickens and goats. You know, since we under no circumstances use herbicide or pesticide, we will need some animals to cope with weeds and pests." The manager says. Wait a minute. Do those goats consume tea leaves? "You never require to be concerned about this." The manager says.
"Goats are by no means interested in tea leaves, due to the fact those leaves are bitter and too tall for them to eat. Therefore, they only consume grass and weed." The manager says. In addition, a utopia-like and 100% organic tea garden located at Mabian will generate tea leaves with excellent good quality.
