A digital garden about tea, its culture and the craftsmanship behind it.
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
Welcome to the March round-up newsletter. A monthly letter about everything that has happened inside and outside the tea nursery. Spring Buzz March has been a mixed bag in terms of weather. Early March was cold, snowy, and windy. Late March was warm, cold, and then warm again. We had
Ryofu was developed from a crossing of Houryoku as the flower component and with Yabukita as the pollen component in the tea research center of Kanaya in 1972.
