Kenya is one of the great tea-producing countries of the world. Across the cool, wet highlands on both sides of the Great Rift Valley, tea bushes cover hillsides in places such as Kericho, Nandi, Bomet, Nyeri, Murang’a, Kirinyaga, Embu, and Meru. Hundreds of thousands of smallholder farmers grow tea alongside large estates, feeding a sophisticated …
