Take over father six tortoise tea garden Li Yongde and his wife grow native camellia

Liukui District, Kaohsiung City, is Taiwan's largest area for native camellias. Without fertilizer or pesticides, camellias often reach two to four stories high. Tea farmers have to climb trees to pick tea. A couple returned home to take over their family's tea garden. Through tea tables, they led the public to experience the beauty of Taiwan's native camellias.

Reporter Sung Yu-e:"The tea tree we saw is a native species of Taiwan. It's not the same as the short tea trees we usually see in peach and bamboo seedling areas."

Li Yung-te, a tea farmer at Liukui, says: "Camellia is a native species of Taiwan. Camellia like this has a history of more than 300 years, and its resistance to disease and survival are very good."

He Jiawei, the daughter of a tea farmer who has been away from home for many years, decided to return to her hometown of Kaohsiung Liugui with her husband Li Yongde to plant Taiwan wild camellia together. The couple decided to plant camellia in a friendly manner, manage it in the wild, and do not use drugs or fertilizers. In 2016, they founded a brand, from planting tea, making tea to selling tea.

Liukui tea farmer Li Yung-te:"When you start making your own tea, you have to learn how to make tea. After you make tea, you can create a brand with my wife."

He Jiawei, a tea farmer at Liugui: "Coming out (setting up a tea table) is an exposure. In fact, people come and go. In fact, people sometimes wonder what this is. They will also come and know each other. Then we will introduce it orally."

The couple have also turned the old cypress house they live in into a tea tasting space for guests, so that visitors can have a rest and drink tea when they come to Liukui, and learn about the local camellia culture.

Liukui tea farmer Li Yongde: "Through the tea table drinking, and introducing this kind of tea tree, let the tea drinker have an impression, you can see the tree, but also can drink the tea taste of the tea tree, more complete, but also more impressive."

Li Yongde and He Jiawei hope to settle down in their hometown and let more people drink the beauty of Taiwan's native camellia.