A digital garden about tea, its culture and the craftsmanship behind it.
Hokumei is a late-growing cultivar developed in Saitama Prefecture from a cross between Sayamamidori and Sai5507. Specifically bred for cold regions, it offers an exceptional cold resistance, strong disease resistance, and higher yields than Yabukita during the spring harvest. Named to represent hope for widespread cultivation at the northern limits
Welcome to the annual look at what has gone on this last year at Tea Nursery’s third year. This year was fully packed, from my second full farming year to continuing my university studies online and settling in Japan a bit more. Then rice shortages, too. There is also
A pre-state of the Nursery talk. Talking about somethings that have been going on in the website this past year and future plans. All while pruning some trees, hunting wasps and going through spiderwebs. * Discord Server * Curated Podcast List * Alex Dwyer on the golden age of tea podcast (and much
Finally, the episode on Awabancha making, I lost a few recordings of the fields, etc. So I re-recorded it while working at the beginning of autumn on the way to do some trimming in a field. Kind of an immersive episode, I even take a couple trees out of the
Fushun is a high-yielding Japanese tea cultivar developed from a cross between Z1 and Kanayamidori in 1965, undergoing a 27-year development period before being registered in 1991. Named "wealthy spring" for its exceptional productivity, Fushun is a late-budding cultivar that produces 23% higher spring yields than Yabukita and
