Tea Info

  • 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...

  • Tea Discoveries Club March 2014

    The Tea Discoveries Club this month featured these sencha teas from 3rd generation tea farmers, the Kurihara brothers from the remote mountains of Yame, Fukuoka Prefecture in Southern Japan: Standard...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Tea Recipe: Matcha Ice Cream

    Ingredients 1 egg (medium size) 300cc milk (or soy milk) 80g heavy cream 75-80g sugar (granulated) 5g matcha powder *1 tablespoon matcha liquor (add liquor only if you have one)...