Mountain Top Green Tea Farm
While hiking in the mountains recently I met an 80 year old man who invited me to visit his mountain top green tea farm. The man bought and cleared the land at the top of this mountain over 60 years ago and has been climbing the mountain ever since to tend and care for his fields. He is one of the last tea farmers in the area to harvest all of his tea by hand and he uses no machines to assist in bringing the tea down the mountain. The large basket he carries on this back will be filled with the day’s harvest before he returns home in the evening. This man was very proud of his tea fields and his family’s long history of farming the mountains of the Japan Southern Alps.
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its a lovely tea farm…one question: does he spray pesticide on the tea trees?
so beautiful!!! you are definitely lucky meeting this wise man!! Look at his shape, simply amazing! I wish one day to move in some peaceful place and live in simple way.. far away from modern urban world, full of shouting and addicted sick, egocentric people.. simplicity is the key. and wisdom is the life’s purest value.
ps- your Japanese is great:)
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Very cool video. Thanks for sharing!
I understand that any tea’s quality in terms of medicinal medicine are strongly based on location, bud type and altitude. Does anyone recommed where I can buy high quality mountain exported green tea? thank-you
I just bought some expensive mountian green tea from china when I was there a week ago. I live in california and maybe Im used to cheap organic green tea bags but my tea from china comes out very light and without much flavor, is this ok? I just assumed the darker and richer flavor the better quality it is, please someone school me and green tea.
Gee… i would like to stay there
so cool. what a great project he has going on there. i wish i had my very own tea field haha
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wow…80 years and still going strong, thats what dedication is all about…thats amazing…This is one of the reasons i wanna go to Japan or live in Japan, everything is so cultural and artistically driven…
@softypapa Where in Japan is this and how do I get there?
@BroskiNick Probably from all the tea he drinks.
Gleen tea is made from baby tea reef.
@raigekimaru I’m just a simple English teacher in Japan. I like to get outside though and always carry my camera! ~Kurt
what do you do for living that allows you wander around the mountains of japan and randomly run into a tea farmer who has a secret farm on top of a mountain? I’m guessing you’re an internet entrepreneur or some sort of similar occupation whatever you do, you’re obviously more interesting than most people and certainly not a square
I love this video thank you for posting it.
@nataraja87 I’m happy you liked this video. Thank you for watching! ~Kurt