The Journey of a Cuppa

We have been getting some very welcome winter rain the last week or so. This is setting the fields up well for an August / September flush – we don’t get this every year, but is important to us for cashflow reasons and because it is a time of year when we can make some of our best quality teas.

We receive our winter rain in the form of days of very light precipitation with complete cloud cover and no sun for days at a time. This unfortunately  makes our roads a bit of a hazard – here are a few snaps of a container load of tea bound for the UK market that almost overturned as the truck slid off the road – if the top of the container hadn’t hit the bank, the truck would have ended up on its side.

 

Earlier in the morning, the truck was leaning against this bank. See the tea bushes roots sticking out of the bank. We hooked a chain to the top of the LHS of the container and pulled it straight with a tractor.

 

 

This set of tyres was 30cms off the ground.

We eventually managed to tow the trailer out backwards with a tractor – hope you enjoy the tea!