Akky-san and his assistants, Mame-san and Supakets, have been busy planting the new baby tea trees and preparing the matured fields for the coming first flush. To prepare the team is trimming down the top of all the hedges so the first flush can have a fresh start after this cold winter. Just like harvesting [...]
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We are currently preparing for the shipment of Obubu’s Valentine’s Day chocolate. This year we have partnered with a patissiere from Nara named Kubo to create AMAZING green tea chocolates made from white chocolate and matcha powder. During the product development period I had the great fortune to taste the chocolate. All I have to [...]
Continue Reading →In the Winter season there is not much working going on in the fields. When I ask Akky-san what his work is for the day he says that it is limited to applying fertilizer. Although there is not much work going on the fields are still as beautiful as ever. I took a Friday afternoon [...]
Continue Reading →Article by Elyse Petersen (Obubu intern from Hawaii). Click on photos to enlarge. Tea Relief Caravan Closure Since finishing the Tea Relief Caravan on January 19 our team of volunteers has been reporting on the situation in Tohoku and the power tea had to bring light to communities that have experienced so much heartache in the past [...]
Continue Reading →Aloha, my name is Elyse Petersen. I am a student in the Japan-focused MBA program, a program of the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa Shidler College of Business and the Japan-America Institute of Management Sciences. As part of my degree I must complete a 3-month long internship at a Japanese company to put my Japanese business knowledge to [...]
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Tohoku Tea Relief Caravan Blog
