(Saying) Some tea companies use pesticides to grow tea leaves, but Honest Tea uses tea leaves from China,India and South Africa that are grown without pesticides or fertilizers.
VOA: standard.2010.02.17
There, the trees would feed the slaves, who had been brought from Africa to cut the sugarcane, which itself had been brought long ago from Asia to produce the sugar that was shipped to England and stirred into tea, itself shipped from China, unless Banks could get someone to steal the tea plants and grow them elsewhere-maybe Calcutta?
Friends and horticulturalists Charlotte Landolt and Letitia Jacot grow and mix herbs for their organic skin-care, syrup and tea company in a chalet about 12 miles from town.