Honouring people and place 

Sandy's small tea garden is located on the beautiful Isle of Skye, where she also grows and creates beautiful floral and herbal infusions. The Isle of Skye has a special mild, wet, and windy climate, and it's fascinating and exciting to see Sandy experimenting with growing exotic plants there, such as camellia sinensis.

Guisachan lies at the head of a glen 30 miles west of Inverness. Most famous for being the birthplace of the Golden Retriever, the estate has diversified and is host to a holiday business, café, renewable energy development and is increasingly focussed on habitats and biodiversity.

Dalguise Tea is a small plantation on the edge of Highland Perthshire, sitting on the slopes above the picturesque Tay Valley, originally planted in the autumn of 2015 as a way to add diversity to a traditional small farm.

Lucy and Chris live on the shores of Loch Migdale in the Highlands of Scotland, surrounded by misty hills with a south facing outlook.

Joanne Holley is the founder and proprietor of The Scottish Tea House, a serene and contemporary tea house nestled in the picturesque Lanarkshire countryside.

Buittle Tea Garden is on a small farm called Boghall, in a particularly lovely, quiet and peaceful hillside which abounds with local wildlife including red squirrels, deer, badgers and hares and a multitude of visiting native birds, especially woodpeckers and many songbirds.

In June 2016, we heard an article about Scottish tea on the radio and got in contact with the grower. By August 2016 we had created a tea plantation and planted 1,000 one year old tea trees!

Mike planted 500 camelia sinensis plants in 2017 on Baleveolan Croft in the island of Lismore.

Dan grew up on an organic farm in Northumberland and has always had a deep interest in the natural world. He developed his love of tea at university and whilst visiting other countries where tea is a mainstay of daily life.

In 2017 Poppy and Henry created a tea plantation in their Victorian walled garden as a diversification to their their livestock farm in South West Scotland.

Glen Afton aims to be a thriving, bio-diverse garden that creates a tea reflecting the beauty, balance, and complexity of the landscape it is grown in.

In 2017 Duncan and Islay moved into a neglected farm on the shores of the Kyles of Bute in Argyll: a sheltered glen, areas of woodland and pasture, the sea loch on their doorstep and steep surrounding hills.