{"id":14738,"date":"2023-04-18T21:53:57","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T19:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/?post_type=product&#038;p=14738"},"modified":"2026-04-02T21:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:16:19","slug":"ojiya-sobacha-tea","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/vare\/ojiya-sobacha-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"Ojiya Sobacha | Pesticide and artificial fertiliser free | 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">Description | <span lang=\"ja\">\u8a73\u7d30<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Ojiya Sobacha is grown and produced by <em>Ichikara-batake,<\/em> a small independent buckwheat \u2013 or, in Japanese, <em>soba<\/em> \u2013 farm and producer headed by the young Mr Yoshida.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Yoshida and his team specialize in cultivating buckwheat fields on reclaimed farmland surrounding Ojiya town in Niigata prefecture with an explicit aim to grow local soba varietals as close to natural conditions as possible. All of their fields are moreover certified organic by the Japanese Agricultural Standard (JAS) with no pesticides or artificial fertiliser being used at all \u2013 a rare sight still today among soba growers in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Made of pure buckwheat grains, and as such naturally free of caffeine, Sobacha makes an ideal evening companion \u2013 or simply a gentle and calming cup at any time of the day.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">Tea trees | <span lang=\"ja\">\u8336\u6a39<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Cultivar:<\/strong> Kitawase<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cultivation method:<\/strong> pesticide and artificial fertiliser free (JAS certified)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fertilisation:<\/strong> housemade compost and manure from organic chickens in Niigata Prefecture<\/p>\n<p><strong>Harvest: <\/strong>August 2025<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">Producer | <span lang=\"ja\">\u751f\u7523\u8005<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ichikara-batake under the leadership of Mr Yoshida<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">Origin | <span lang=\"ja\">\u7523\u5730<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Ojiya in Niigata, Japan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h4><span lang=\"ja\">\u5c0f\u5343\u8c37 \u854e\u9ea6\u8336<\/span><\/h4>\n<h5>Sobacha from specially selected large buckwheat grains grown in Ojiya, Niigata, without any use of pesticides or artificial fertilisers (JAS certified).<\/h5>\n<h5>Slowly roasted in an old fashioned way, emphasizing warm aromas while brewing a clear and calming nut-like sweet tea &#8211; naturally free of caffeine.<\/h5>\n<p><em style=\"font-size: 20px;\">granola \u2013 puffed rice \u2013 caramelised shoyu<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8003\" src=\"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/JAS-mark.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"80px\" height=\"60px\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[255,143,191,254],"product_tag":[131,251],"class_list":{"0":"post-14738","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-ichikara-batake-niigata","7":"product_cat-mizudashi-cold-brew-tools","8":"product_cat-tea","9":"product_cat-sobacha-en","10":"product_tag-hojicha-en","11":"product_tag-sobacha-en","13":"first","14":"instock","15":"taxable","16":"shipping-taxable","17":"purchasable","18":"product-type-variable","19":"has-default-attributes"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/14738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=14738"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=14738"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=14738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}