A digital garden about tea, its culture and the craftsmanship behind it.
Minekaori, a specialized Japanese tea cultivar bred in Miyazaki Prefecture, is specifically designed for kamairicha production. It was created in 1966 by crossing Yabukita and Unkai. Minekaori is renowned for its distinctive sweet, cooked rice aroma and exceptional quality when processed using the pan-firing method. However, it performs poorly as
Welcome to the recap of April, May, and June round-up newsletter. A letter about everything that has happened inside and outside the tea nursery during the extremely busy harvest season.
This episode is the only one I managed to record during the spring harvest. In this episode, we talk about the initial thoughts on the harvest, and you will visit the fields with me to read the leaves.
Recorded on April 16th. On this episode I talk about the start of the roof shading process and reapair at work, how the growth is going and the expectations towards harvest at the end of the month. The day of recording we participated in the Wazuka Handrolling Preservation Society hand-pickign
A few weeks ago, I introduced the podcast for the blog, a collection of irregularly released notes on tea farming and other fine tea nerdery. Following the example of some of my favorite podcasts, I will put a simple post with every episode for people to discover it more easily
