Three thick green shrubs stand sentry along my backyard fence. Squat and unassuming, each is about four feet tall, its branches dense with small, scalloped leaves. Seemingly impervious to heat, ...

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Your morning tea—Matcha, Darjeeling, English Breakfast—most likely comes from far away. While there are a few dozen tea growers in the United States, the harvested leaves, many of which come from an ...

Three Austinites are producing Texas-grown tea — and, in the process, helping Bastrop residents and the pine forest there recover from the devastating 2011 wildfires. Their Lost Pines Yaupon Tea, now ...

The fruits of yaupon holly are toxic to humans, but the leaves have been used traditionally to make a tea-like beverage. Vicky McMillan Holly is, course, a traditional symbol of the Christmas season, ...

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Long before Earl Grey, Darjeeling and oolong reached our shores, there was yaupon. Tea brewed from the leaves of the yaupon holly has been part of the North American diet for more than 1,000 years, ...