Phuguri Tea Estate Pvt. Ltd.

Living and working at Phuguri Tea Estate is a bit different from being in a city shop. We are up here in Mirik Tehsil, and the views are something else, though we mostly focus on the ground in front of us. Our place is near the New Fallodi Tea Garden, so there's tea everywhere you look. It's quiet most of the time, except for when the workers are out in the fields or the birds are making a racket in the morning. We’ve been at this for a long time at Phuguri. It’s not just a business for us; it’s where we live and breathe. The rain can be heavy sometimes, making the roads a bit tricky, but that's just part of life in the hills. We spend our days checking on the bushes and seeing how the leaves are growing. It takes a lot of patience. You can't rush nature, no matter how much you want to. The office is just a simple building where we keep our records and talk to the staff. We don’t have fancy meetings with powerpoint slides. Most of our talking happens while walking through the rows of tea or sitting on the porch. We know the land pretty well by now. It’s a lot of hard work, especially during the picking season when everyone is busy from sunrise to sunset. But at the end of the day, when you look out over the hills, it feels okay. We just keep doing what we've always done here in Phuguri.