Goodricke Group Limited

Down here at Hope Tea Garden in Nagrakata, things move a bit differently than in the big cities. We are part of the Goodricke Group Limited and our main focus is the tea we grow right here. The garden is a huge stretch of green and it takes a lot of hands to keep it all going properly. We are located near the Post Office in Nagrakata which is the main hub for us. Living and working on a tea estate means you are always thinking about the rain and the soil. It is a quiet life for the most part except when the plucking season is in full swing. Then everyone is out in the fields and the factory is humming all night long. We don't have fancy marketing people writing this for us. We are just the folks on the ground making sure the bushes are healthy. The air is clean up here and we take a lot of pride in the rows of tea plants we tend to every day. Sometimes the roads get washed out a bit when the monsoon hits hard but we always manage to get the tea out eventually. It is hard work and your boots are always muddy by the end of the shift. We stay here because we like the land and we know how to handle the tea.