Climbing ancient tea trees

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bit

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sometimes we tread water

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sometimes we climb

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in this region it's not uncommon for tea

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trees to grow for several hundred years

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these tea trees right now is at its

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prime and this is what he is meant to

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taste like

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tasty

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once we pick the tea we need to spread

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it out in a cool area where the water

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can travel out before we can walk fry

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the tea

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this step is to kill the enzymes so the

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tea fermentation can be stopped

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then we take the tea leaves out and then

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we roll the tea

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once the sun dry the tea you need to

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pick out any discoloration

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this sorting