{"id":4479,"date":"2015-09-21T15:15:34","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T19:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=4479"},"modified":"2015-09-21T15:15:34","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T19:15:34","slug":"first-tea-plantation-in-mississippi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/09\/first-tea-plantation-in-mississippi\/","title":{"rendered":"First tea plantation in Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Modern Farmer<\/em> posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/2015\/09\/great-mississippi-tea-company\/?utm_source=Modern+Farmer+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=f4dddf849f-Monday_September_21_20159_21_2015&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_e8a89c7e43-f4dddf849f-75518621&amp;mc_cid=f4dddf849f&amp;mc_eid=cd66672ffe\" target=\"_blank\">story<\/a> this week about a new tea farm, the first one to be planted in Mississippi, although there are currently several in Hawaii, a few\u00a0in the Pacific Northwest and one in South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Even though tea has traditionally been grown in tropical areas with warm and humid climates, the tea plant is turning out to be more hardy to a variety of climates than originally thought. \u00a0So farmers are trying out the specialty crop in a number of new places, including Cornwall in the United Kingdom. \u00a0The first crop in Mississippi should be harvested soon. \u00a0If successful, it may represent a new crop to add to the mix for farmers across the Southeast, particularly if the climate becomes more\u00a0warm and humid in the future.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4480\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4480\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/misstea.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4480\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/misstea-300x185.jpeg\" alt=\"Source: Jason McDonald\/Mississippi State via Modern Farmer\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/misstea-300x185.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/misstea.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/misstea-223x138.jpeg 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4480\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Jason McDonald\/Mississippi State via Modern Farmer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modern Farmer posted a story this week about a new tea farm, the first one to be planted in Mississippi, although there are currently several in Hawaii, a few\u00a0in the Pacific Northwest and one in South Carolina. Even though tea has traditionally been grown in tropical areas with warm and humid climates, the tea plant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":4480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4481,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4479\/revisions\/4481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}