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Heritage gyokuro 2014 first flush photos from Kurihara Tea
Shop Kurihara Tea Yamecha gyokuro specialist, tea farmer Akio Kurihara sent these photos today: “Heritage gyokuro. All I want to do is make really really good gyokuro.” In the photos you can see 2014’s first flush growing. If you notice carefully the top of the...
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Kurihara Tea farm’s tea field photo
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SHINCHA: Tea farmer Yuji Kurihara starts 2014 harvest!
Tea farmer Yuji and Akio Kurihara talk about their first harvest of 2014.
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Dive into 200kg of tea with gyokuro farmer Yuji Kurihara
Dive into 200kg of tea with farmer Yuji Kurihara, gyokuro specialist! Pre-orders for his 2014 harvest available here: http://yunomi.us/shincha
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Tea farm ownership system at Kurihara Tea Farm
Yuji Kurihara of Kurihara Tea Farm shared with us his passion for the new tea farm ownership system. Tea harvesting at the “Tenku-no-chabatake” (literally “tea field in the sky”), a tea field with an ownership system. Those interested in owning a tea field, we’re still...
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Shincha Update > Kurihara Gyokuro. 4/20
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Fighting red blight organically
By Akio Kurihara If at all possible, we farmers avoid using pesticides to fight diseases such as red blight (赤焼病 akayakebyou). Today, I trimmed my oku hikari cultivar fields in preparation for the winter. I am cutting the hedges a little higher than usual. By...
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Shincha Update > Diamonds in the Shade. Kurihara Gyokuro. 4/21
Heritage Gyokuro In the filtered sunlight, Sparkling leaves. Diamonds in the shade.
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Photos of first flush tea leaves on the tea fields of Shizuoka tea farmer Haruo Ogose
Haruo Ogose, a tea farmer in Shizuoka who cultivates tea without use of fertilizers or pesticides, sent us these photos of his tea fields on April 21st.
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Yokota Blog: 50 days before the estimated germination period
Shop Here for 2015 Shincha Tea Spring equinox has passed and we can finally feel the warmth of spring. It is time to officially begin the spring trimming. In the “trimming” process, plucking surface is equally trimmed to avoid old leaves and twigs from getting...
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Onocha Tea Fields First Flush 2015 Photo (April 12)
Shop Here for 2015 Shincha Tea The grand expanse of tea fields in Ono, Yamaguchi Prefecture. The new buds a brilliant green carpeting the landscape! Harvest is planned for the end of the month with shipments beginning early May!
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March 2015 Hachimanjyu tea field
March 20, 2015. Tea leaf buds starting to appear at the tea fields in Yakushima Island, courtesy of Hachimanjyu Tea.
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