A group of Scottish tea planters are on a mission to find the perfect brew that can be grown on home soil. Rebecca Shearer speaks to some of those involved in the project to find out more..
Scotland is renowned for its quality food and drink produce but, despite being a nation of tea drinkers, we’re not known for producing the product on home soil.
But this might be about to change in the not-too-distant future, particularly if a group of Scottish tea producers and scientists at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) have anything to do with it.
More than 40 tea producers can be found throughout Scotland and now a group of them are working together with a research team from the Rural Innovation Support Service (RISS), led by the Soil Association, to find the most profitable and highest-quality tea that can be grown on Scottish soil..
