Grow Your Own Tea: The Complete Guide to Cultivating, Harvesting, and Preparing

About Christine ParksSusan M. Walcott

Christine Parks together with her husband David developed Camellia Forest Tea Gardens in Chapel Hill North Carolina. The Parks family has worked for decades collecting propagating and testing camellia cultivars for hardinesstoday Christine and David are partners in Tea Flower Research which has formalized the familys work. She was chair of the Tea Committee of the American Camellia Society and a founding member of the US League of Tea Growers and representative for southeastern growers.Susan Morrison Walcott is an emerita professor of geography at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She has sipped soup-like buttery tea in Tibet and visited Hangzhous tea gardens and tea museum during a research trip to Chinas high technology parksa geographers curiosity leads down more roads than cat has lives. She is a founding member of the US League of Tea Growers and has published several articles on tea grown in the United States in academic journals.