Of course, anyone can. Let's begin here: source (The Complete Guide to Tea Grown in the United States and Canada) for green tea. This is a map of commercial operation to date..
Pinkies Up! A Local Tea Movement Is Brewing Small operations are popping up all over. A guide for growing tea Grow Your Own Tea Sources for plants Tea (Camellia sinensis) Tea Camellia– Sinensis–Shop Shrubs | Spring Hill Nurseries sold in many places as an ornamental shrub, check with local nurseries or other suppliers for plants grown locally. Growing indoors in possible for a very low-rate harvest. Just as it my earlier (When the coffee is gone) thread, if you have a garden, it makes sense to plant a few tea bushes - if nothing else it can provide some good barter material now and in the future or little cost and not a lot of effort. These folks made a (small) business out of home grown tea - Minto Island Tea Company
Growing one's own tea on a small scale is doable, however those some climatic environments may be more favourable than others. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...-gardeners-realise-uk-climate-is-perfect-for/ Just be prepared for a few years wait for a reliably productive crop
Depends on the tea. I harvested sassafras root bark for tea when I was a teenager in Michigan. Dandelion, rosemary, Hawthorne and mint teas would be easy in Coastal North Carolina, although I've only tried making mint tea. I enjoy this thread and will have to experiment more.
Digging VERY deeply into memory, there's a faint memory of sassafras tea made from leaves. I cannot swear to it; that was a LONG time ago, and tea never was not all that high on my list of things to learn in camp.
Sassafras leaves will work for tea too. This makes it an all season tea producer. Leaves in season and root bark after the leaves have dropped.
