The crop is tea--tea for the high priced specialty market. Now this is not your common Lipton Tea, which can be grown much cheaper than the high wages demanded by North American Farmers. This is the tea for the higher priced special market such as Michigan Based Organic Tea for 256 dollars a pound or Big Island Tea in Hawaii for 40 dollars an ounce. The Tea Association of the USA says the specialty market is growing 8 to 10 percent a year, mainly because millennial like the product. The practice has attracted farmers from Mississippi to British Columbia. Grower Jason McDonald in Mississippi began to farm tea after Hurricane Katrina wiped out his timber. He worked with University People to find a tea that would thrive in Mississippi. He says growing tea is not for everyone. You've got to love it he adds.