<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article contains content that is written like an advertisement . Please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links, and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . (July 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article contains content that is written like an advertisement . Please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links, and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . (July 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> Camellia sinensis can be grown in warmer parts of the United States and currently the US mainland has a relatively large plantation with full mechanization in Charleston, South Carolina, and numerous small number of commercial tea gardens and smaller artisan operations that currently pick tea by hand . Many smaller sites are looking to mechanize, at least partially, within the next 5 years . Some growers feel that tea production is not viable without some mechanization, but there is evidence that unmechanized tea production is viable, albeit with lower net profit margins . Most domestically grown teas are available through mail order and online purchases . The Charleston Tea Plantation's American Classic Tea brand is carried in Walmart under the American Choice label . </P> <P> Commercial farms are springing up all across the USA, with producing farms located in the states of South Carolina, Alabama, Washington, and Oregon . Off the mainland, there is a collective of roughly 40 small growers in Hawaii . There are also a handful of commercial farms in the process of being developed in the states of South Carolina, Mississippi, New York and Texas, but they have yet reach the point of selling product to the general public on a regular basis . The US League of Tea Growers is an organized tea farming group that has formed in 2013 to address matters related to small tea growing in the USA . </P>

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