Last 27th of January we had one more Meet the Tea Farmer event. This time we met Yoshihiro Sugimoto, a third generation tea farmer from Wazuka, Kyoto; a good crew of our members joined from all over the world (Italy, Portugal, The Netherlands, Belgium, Australia and USA!) Sugimoto-san cultivates and produces sencha, matcha and wakoucha […]
At our monthly Meet the Tea Farmer event on 25th November our guest tea farmer was Noriyasu Uejima – a 5th generation tea farmer from Wazuka, Kyoto. Uejima-san decided to continue his dad’s activity as a tea farmer when he was 22 years old. Soon he realised it wasn’t an easy task and one that […]
Recently I started to discover the Japanese archipelagos a little bit more. I took advantage of the travel restrictions to explore a little bit more this beautiful country going beyond the common touristic places and finding in extremely wild nature the essence of Japan! During “Silver week”, a week of holidays in Japan around the […]
At our monthly Meet the Tea Farmer event on 28th October our guest tea farmer was Yuji Kurihara – a 4th generation tea farmer from Yame, Fukuoka Kurihara-san manages his family tea farm together with his brother. They produce many different teas, like gyokuro, sencha, wakoucha, hojicha, genmaicha and more. Some of them, especially gyokuro, […]
On 23rd September we held our third monthly Meet the Tea Farmer event and our guest tea farmer was Kenta Hosoi – the 5th generation tea farmer from Wazuka, Kyoto. Hosoi-san enjoyed tea farming from early days and knowing that he would want to continue his family’s tradition he went to study about tea farming […]
Our second Meet the Tea Farmer event was held on 26th August and our guest tea farmer this time was Jun Watanabe – the 4th generation tea farmer from Shimada, Shizuoka. Watanabe-san’s family has been farming Japanese tea for over a hundred years with the focus on Fukamushicha – deep steamed green tea typical to […]
The online Meet the Tea Farmer events were started to give Japanese tea farmers a chance to introduce their teas to the international audiences. For the tea professionals and the tea lovers around the world these events also give an opportunity to access hard-to-find high quality Japanese teas and get to know who is behind […]
The tea situation in Japan has been difficult for several years, and, coupled with the pandemic, 2020 may be especially hard for tea farmers in Japan. Tea farmers normally focus on cultivating and processing Japanese tea, which most of them sell through the local tea auctions. However, because of the decreasing demand, the market price […]