Nilgiri Blue Mountain tea is grown on the Western Ghat Mountains of the Karnataka Plateau (map source). The tea bushes create a beautiful carpet of green doted with tea factories and worker housing. Tea has been cultivated in the Nilgiri Hills since the late 19th century, where tea is grown at about 1,000 meters. Rainfall varies from 100 to 160 centimeters. The tea bushes on this 2,000 acre plantation are about 45 years old and will produce for 100 years. Silver oaks provide shade for the tea bushes which like cool and moist (fog) weather found at these higher elevations. In the factory, tea is dried, fermented, graded, and packaged into various kinds of types and quality of teas. Workers receive wages, tea, housing, health care, and education. We visited the homes of two tea worker families: their living and sleeping rooms and kitchens. Their clothing is drying on tea bushes.