vanillas in the mist

intercropping: vanilla with tea. yum!

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Withering Heights - Vanillas in the Mist [Part I of III]

June 20th 2010
I guess I'll have to start drinking tea. Out of absolute respect for the process, the pluckers, the packagers, the plunderers. For all the mixed emotions (and knowledge) I have about The Brits, the tea hills they left in a shadow of forest warrant a small round of applause. And the feats of organic, biodynamic and fairtrade agriculture I saw today, all managed by 'Lankan locals, well, th ... read more

Asia » Sri Lanka » Uva Province » Bandarawela

The Sinhalese arrived in Sri Lanka late in the 6th century B.C., probably from northern India. Buddhism was introduced beginning in about the mid-third century B.C., and a great civilization developed at the cities of Anuradhapura (kingdom from circa... ... read more

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