Vale Farms has planted 12,000 tea plants across three acres, with plans for a one-acre greenhouse and a 30,000-square-foot processing facility in Oak Harbor on Whidbey Island, Wash. Can the Pacific Northwest produce commercially viable tea and exceptional matcha at scale? And will other growers join Vale Farms in building a regional tea industry modeled on Napa Valley and the Willamette wine region? Those questions are at the heart of our SPOTLIGHT conversation with Luke Larson, CEO and Founder of Vale.