Founded by husband and wife team, Tea Hawaii & Company is a tea estate within the temperate rainforest on the summit of Hawaiis Kilauea Volcano focused on the farm production of Hawaii grown fine tea from nursery propagating to marketing home grown tea. Principals of the firms are advocaties for tea agriculture to help build an industry unique to Hawaii. For the past twelve years Hawaii has been developing a tea industry that has received assistance from researchers at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR), and support from Hawaii Department of Agriculture, Hawaii County Office of Research and Development, and the Big Island Resource Conservation & Development Council and NRCS. These collaborations have enabled Hawaii to create a sustainable domestic specialty crop for global distribution.
