pictures of boston tea party
The cooking fire is an obvious health risk, green tea plants the outhouse is completely ignored, used instead to store firewood. There is a sad lack of urgency displayed by the owner of this estate to educate pickers about a better living standard. Back on the bus and five minutes up the road, we arrive at out destination, the Idulgashinna Biodynamic Tea Plantation in Haldemulla in the Uva district. The joyous welcome we receive is overwhelming. Unaccustomed to such warmth from strangers, my American tea colleague and green tea plants almost run back to the bus.
I become incredibly insecure about the state of my work desk back home. As proud as managers and officers are of the organic structure of the gardens, there is a stronger pride in what has been achieved with the people of green tea plants garden, from those who pick and sort to those green tea plants man the factory machinery and load the chests to be shipped abroad. The worker facilities here are a far cry from what we saw on the neighboring estate. Idulgashinna provides a school for children, including a computer center that would be the envy of many American schools. There is also a bank for workers-previously unheard of on the estates-as well as a medical center. The educational process emphasizes the value of savings and the concept of interest accrual.
Steps between garden tiers are cut from the hillside, and baskets cradling fresh tea leaves are woven from bamboo. We walk down the path toward two men who are at work shredding vegetation pruned or removed from the garden. Behind the men and their machine are orderly piles of compost in declining levels of decay-a green tea plants illustration of the process of moisture evaporation.