Get to Know Your Tea Farmer: Noriyasu Uejima
If you have been to Wazuka, in Kyoto prefecture, you will likely have heard of the 5th generation tea farmer, Noriyasu Uejima who runs Sourokuen (ē½ē·å), Uejima Tea Farm. The...
Professional's Guide to Japanese Tea
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Community Supporting and Supported Farming: Cyittorattu Part 2
Interview Part 1 Interview Part 2 Today we are back to share the second part of our interview with Ayumi Kinezuka from Ayumi Farms, Cyittorattu. In the first part, we...
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Community Supporting and Supported Farming: Cyittorattu Part 1
Interview Part 1 Interview Part 2 Ayumi Farms, Cyittorattu (established by Ayumi Kinezuka in 2019) is addressing one of the most defining challenges of our time; namely, how to balance...
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Get to Know Your Tea Farmer: Tarui Tea Farms
Last week, I had the opportunity to talk with the Tarui family of Tarui Tea FarmĀ in Nearai, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka prefecture. They are a family operated organic tea farm and...
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A Taste of Kagoshima Tea
Kagoshima is the 2nd largest tea producing prefecture in Japan, after Shizuoka.Ā It is only recently however that Kagoshima has obtained recognition for producing high-end tea.Ā For several decades, Kagoshima...
