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Guest blogs from tea farmers & tea experts

  • Kyoto Obubu Tea Plantations London Event 26 Sept.

    Yasuharu Matsumoto of Kyoto Obubu Tea Plantations will be in London late September and giving a lecture on Japanese tea from the perspective of a tea farmer. From experience, we...

  • Obubu World Tour – Europe 2013

    Kyoto Obubu Tea Farms has a mission to bring Japanese Tea to the world and help spread Japanese tea culture and its centuries-long values of harmony and peace. Not only...

  • The Kinezuka family of NaturaliTea wins National Award

    The Kinezuka family business has won the 44th Award for Japan Agriculture, Bridging Food Division. Held by NHK and national Japan Agriculture organization, they competed with farmers and agricultural groups...

  • Umegashima black tea from Shizuoka

    Hello everyone, Creha is open from 1pm as usual. Please stop by if you have time. Today we are having a study session on black tea “Mellow Umegashima”. Produced in...

  • NaturaliTea Shincha Tea Picking Event

    Shop Here for 2015 Shincha Tea Shincha season is on its way this year. This year marks our 39th year of the tea picking event we have been holding to...

  • World Tea Farms Festival

    We had a booth at World Tea Farms Festival in Wazuka, Kyoto for two days. There are many young tea farmers working and learning from each other in Wazuka. There...

  • 2012 First Flush Shincha Green Tea Coming Soon!

    The tea fields have become bright yellow-green as they are blanketed by new leaves of the first flush shincha. Last night, we talked to the representative of the grower's group...

  • About NaturaliTea

    [tabs style=”boxed”] [tab title=”Introduction”]Based in the mountains behind the city of Fujieda in Shizuoka Prefecture.[/tab] [tab title=”The People”] Toshiaki Kinezuka President and farmer Ayumi Kinezuka Vice president and business manager...

  • Setoya Momiji Producer Toshiaki Kinezuka

    Yunomi.us: Japanese black tea expert visited?another one of our partners, the Kinezuka family (NaturaliTea), in March 2011, and wrote a fairly long post about it. We'll be translating soon, but...

  • Kinezuka Family Gallery

    The Kinezuka family head, Toshiaki Kinezuka, has been farming tea organically for nearly four decades and is one of Japan’s pioneers in the field. With nearly 30 other farmers in...