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Meet the Tea Farmer – Noriyasu Uejima

Posted 2020-11-302020-11-30 annaLeave a commentPosted in Tea Events, Tea Producers

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 […]

Nomad Tea Festival

Posted 2020-10-302020-10-30 annaLeave a commentPosted in Tea Activities, Tea Events

During the past weekend of 24th and 25th of October, Nomad Tea Festival Europe was celebrated online. At the festival, participants could virtually visit different tea vendors, chat with them, see their teas or listening to their presentations. Among the exhibitors, 3 of them specialise exclusively on Japanese teas: Yunomi, Sono Organic and The Japanese […]