The farm is slowly emerging from the final stretch of winter.
Over the past couple of weeks we’ve begun trimming the tea hedges, restoring their shape ahead of the growing season. It is always a balancing act with the timing of this, trying to avoid heavy frost but also finishing before the plants edge away from dormancy. Every year there is more to be done so we're having to start a bit earlier - there are now well over 4km of hedges to be cut and my arms sure know about it!
I'm marking out the rows this year - enlarging the walkways slightly so that the plants get a bit more air movement and light penetration. Yes, I'm aiming for totally straight rows, it is something I really love... orderly geometry which sits in gentle contrast to the biodiverse wilder habitat that we are nurturing. It is a reminder that commercial cultivation and ecology can exist in balanced partnership.
Peterston Tea is being featured on Prue Leith’s Cotswold kitchen with return guest Ellie Simmonds. Seeing our Welsh-grown tea poured in such a well-loved kitchen feels both grounding and surreal. The episode is available on ITVX.
If you’re looking for our 2025 Tost Green Tea, we’re incredibly proud that Fortnum & Mason is now stocking this on their tea counter in Piccadilly, alongside our black tea — this is a huge achievement for us!
We are now on the final released batches of our 2025 black tea but we have already opened up pre-orders for our 2026 harvest tea. A very big thank you to everyone who places pre-orders with us each year, as a small farm business this helps support us more than you probably realise!