How to Make (whisk) Matcha Tea
The below are basic instructions on how to make matcha tea for one person. Since we are farmers and not tea ceremony masters, we encourage you to experiment to get...
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Tea Recipe: Sencha Snowball Cookies
Sencha Snowball Cookies by Oisakien Kimiko-san, Oisakien’s young successor Yuki-san’s wife, is making a cute tea recipe book! Today she shares one recipe with us! “My friends love this cookie!...
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Shincha Update > Morita Tea Garden 4/24
Morita-san sent us more pictures of their tea farm. They cover some tea trees for several days before harvesting for Kabusecha. Can you tell the difference? The left (covered...
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About Asamiyacha – one of the five great ancient tea regions of Japan
Located in the southern part of Shiga prefecture and the western part of Shigaraki town (also famous for Shigarakiyaki ceramics ware), Asamiya is a hilly, rural region on the Shigaraki...
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Using rice husks as an organic way to fight insect infestation.
I received a request from Saitama Prefecture to experiment with using rice husks as an organic method to prevent infestation of an insect called white peach scales (pseudaulacaspis pentagona). A...
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Akio Kurihara-san’s way of recycling tea
生育が少し良くない畑にもみ殻堆肥を投入してます。 これは茶工場で出た茶しぶダゴや、はわき集めた茶粉を混ぜて作った堆肥。 いわば再利用。無駄なく茶畑に還すってことですね。 Adding chaff compost to the tea field that is not growing as expected. The compost is made from remains of tea incrustation and powder of tea leaves...
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Shincha Update > Kurihara Gyokuro. 4/20
The post Shincha Update > Kurihara Gyokuro. 4/20 appeared first on YUNOMI.
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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...
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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. The post Photos...
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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...
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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. The post March 2015 Hachimanjyu tea field appeared first on...
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Snow covered tea fields of Onocha, Yamaguchi Prefecture
Onocha is a tea farm, factory, and retail brand in a hidden tea production region in Yamaguchi Prefecture on the southern tip of the main Japanese island of Honshu. The...
