#0377.S5 Kaneroku Matsumoto Tea Garden: Wasencha Midori Sencha Green Tea 和煎茶みどり3rd generation tea farmer Hiroki Matsumoto manages some 30 fields in the Kiriyama region of the Makinohara plain in Shimada, Shizuoka. He utilizes the UNESCO designated World Heritage agricultural tradition, Chagusaba, to cultivate his tea leaves. This tradition requires farmers to cultivate sasa grasses surrounding the tea fields, and use the grasses as fertilizer in the fields. Regular steamed tea leaves create a balanced sencha green tea. Product

She is now face of the farm

this makes a bitter drink

Ingredients: Table salt (made in Japan)

Yuzu is a citrus fruit and plant that is cultivated mainly in East Asia

Genmai toasted rice is from Toyama Prefecture

it’s such a pleasant olfactory sensation

part of a group of companies run by the family totaling 3-4 dozen employees

Sweetness (15%): 10/10 (10 = sweetest)

3 cm height

that is what they specialise in

which is bitter tasting

Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System)