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...But that brings us to the first general reason why there is no futures market for tea: it’s too good of a crop. Look at tea’s longtime caffeinated nemesis, coffee....
...Cocoa futures are at record levels because West Africa, from where most cocoa comes, has been affected by extreme weather and crop disease....
...Washi is a traditional paper made up of three materials: kozo bark (or mulberry paper: a strong, widely used fibre grown as a farm crop), water and tororo-aoi (sunset hibiscus), which binds the kozo together...
...They were coerced into cultivating the crop to supply the Chinese market and fill British coffers....
...“There’s more known about space travel than there is about soil health,” says Tom Gregory, gulping down a cup of tea and glancing out from his farmhouse kitchen at a valley of green fields....
...I forgo the pint and opt for a pot of tea. Ian Lynch is next to his brother Daragh. Radie Peat sits next to him. On her other side is Cormac Mac Diarmada....
...Darkness makes rhubarb a “far more tender and sweeter product” than its outdoor alternative; Tomlinson and his wife go as far as picking their crop by candlelight....
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...Sarah — the third agent, a serial tea drinker (“We should have our own cow outside, the amount of milky tea we drink.”) and the lucky occupant of the desk by the window — told me about Kayleigh’s career...
...The patterns of the monsoon are shifting, pushing crop cycles out of step....
...Small firm peaches and crops of black mulberries vary the harvest of apples and pears....
...“I’d like a Studio Nicholson café, a tea cup, ashtray, sofa, luggage. Purposeful. I don’t want frippery!”...
...Fitzwilliam’s mahogany-and-silver caddies, engraved with his coat of arms, sanitised the plantation tea and sugar they held....
...Production of Darjeeling has trended lower due to competition from cheaper rivals, such as Nepal, and climate change, with volatile weather hurting crops....
...“You can’t lecture people,” he says, “but climate change is drying up our wells and causing our crops to fail, so people listened to my message.”...
...Vines that produce dessert grapes have the appeal of abundant foliage and a delicious late summer crop....
...Archaeologists now believe the earthworks at Moray, built sometime between the 12th and 14th centuries, formed a kind of Inca research station where agronomists tested crops for their performance in different...
...The final “Aha” moment comes when I’m sipping fresh chocolate-mint tea and the team digs out an LP that usually only gets an airing at the end of the night: ABBA’s “Voulez-Vous”....
...At his home, we settled down for tea in a memorabilia-lined study, replete with alien figurines, groaning bookcases and a chunk of rock smuggled back from a late noughties trip to Roswell....
...In Japan, they are blessed with the idea of omotenashi, the notion of quiet personal fulfilment through the practice of hospitality, stemming from the tea ceremony....
...They say, quote, “changes in take-home wages for field plucking staff may vary because of the seasonal nature of tea crops, or because some workers pick more in a day than others, not because of mechanisation...
...Jess made everyone cups of tea and brought out some shortbread biscuits. For Sarah, there were chocolate eggs left over from Easter, which they tried to persuade her to eat, but she had no appetite....
...“I think people’s concerns are well founded to a degree — it’s like a dependence on potatoes as the only crop,” Nolan says....
...For centuries, Sri Lanka has been renowned for its vast and varied produce, its fertile soil fostering everything from cinnamon and black pepper to fruits and fragrant teas....
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