A digital garden about tea, its culture and the craftsmanship behind it.
Welcome to the November round-up newsletter. A monthly letter about everything that has happened inside and outside the tea nursery. The north wind blows the leaves After a year full of activity in the fields as well as outside of them, we are wrapping up the season, slowly preparing for
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
