Photo: Akio Kurihara-san processes his okumidori tea leaves

Kurihara Tea Farm

今日はおくひかりを摘みました。 そして、お茶揉んでます。 これを摘んだので、もうひといきかな…。 Today I picked okumidori leaves, and am processing them. These are the ones I picked…just a little more work…

The post Photo: Akio Kurihara-san processes his okumidori tea leaves appeared first on YUNOMI.

Photo: The Kurihara Summer, green fields, blue skies

Kurihara Tea Farm

The Kurihara tea fields in summer, Yabemura, Yame, Fukuoka, Japan July 30, 2014

The post Photo: The Kurihara Summer, green fields, blue skies appeared first on YUNOMI.

Akio Kurihara-san’s way of recycling tea

Kurihara Tea Farm

生育が少し良くない畑にもみ殻堆肥を投入してます。 これは茶工場で出た茶しぶダゴや、はわき集めた茶粉を混ぜて作った堆肥。 いわば再利用。無駄なく茶畑に還すってことですね。 Adding chaff compost to the tea field that is not growing as expected. The compost is made from remains of tea incrustation and powder of tea leaves gathered at the tea processing facility. In other words, recycling. We return the remains of...

The post Akio Kurihara-san’s way of recycling tea appeared first on YUNOMI.

Heritage gyokuro 2014 first flush photos from Kurihara Tea

Kurihara Tea Farm

Shop Kurihara Tea Yamecha gyokuro specialist, tea farmer Akio Kurihara sent these photos today: “Heritage gyokuro. All I want to do is make really really good gyokuro.” In the photos you can see 2014’s first flush growing. If you notice carefully the top of the...

The post Heritage gyokuro 2014 first flush photos from Kurihara Tea appeared first on YUNOMI.

SHINCHA: Tea farmer Yuji Kurihara starts 2014 harvest!

Kurihara Tea Farm

Tea farmer Yuji and Akio Kurihara talk about their first harvest of 2014.

The post SHINCHA: Tea farmer Yuji Kurihara starts 2014 harvest! appeared first on YUNOMI.

Dive into 200kg of tea with gyokuro farmer Yuji Kurihara

Kurihara Tea Farm

Dive into 200kg of tea with farmer Yuji Kurihara, gyokuro specialist! Pre-orders for his 2014 harvest available here: http://yunomi.us/shincha

The post Dive into 200kg of tea with gyokuro farmer Yuji Kurihara appeared first on YUNOMI.

Tea farm ownership system at Kurihara Tea Farm

Kurihara Tea Farm

Yuji Kurihara of Kurihara Tea Farm shared with us his passion for the new tea farm ownership system. Tea harvesting at the “Tenku-no-chabatake” (literally “tea field in the sky”), a tea field with an ownership system. Those interested in owning a tea field, we’re still...

The post Tea farm ownership system at Kurihara Tea Farm appeared first on YUNOMI.

Fighting red blight organically

Kurihara Tea Farm

By Akio Kurihara If at all possible, we farmers avoid using pesticides to fight diseases such as red blight (赤焼病 akayakebyou). Today, I trimmed my oku hikari cultivar fields in preparation for the winter. I am cutting the hedges a little higher than usual. By...

The post Fighting red blight organically appeared first on YUNOMI.

Shincha Update > Diamonds in the Shade. Kurihara Gyokuro. 4/21

Asako Inoue

Heritage Gyokuro In the filtered sunlight, Sparkling leaves. Diamonds in the shade.

The post Shincha Update > Diamonds in the Shade. Kurihara Gyokuro. 4/21 appeared first on YUNOMI.

2015 green tea picking (sencha) today at the Kurihara Tea Farm

Kurihara Tea Farm

Says Yuji Kurihara: “Not a cloud to see, in the blue sky, picking tea.” Today, the tea factory is filled with workers, and we are working all night. No damage from frost this year…the shincha is going to be good! Won’t someone drink not breakfast...

The post 2015 green tea picking (sencha) today at the Kurihara Tea Farm appeared first on YUNOMI.

How to choose Japanese tea

By partnering with a hundred plus artisanal Japanese tea farms and factories, we offer hundreds of green teas, and dozens of matcha, black tea, oolong tea, etc. Where do you start?

We recomend starting with Sampler Sets!