{"id":17379,"date":"2024-07-07T21:34:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T19:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/?post_type=product&#038;p=17379"},"modified":"2025-05-30T12:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T10:35:07","slug":"tsukigase-sencha-natural-farming-2024","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/vare\/tsukigase-sencha-natural-farming-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsukigase Sencha | Natural farming | 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">Tea trees | <span lang=\"ja\">\u8336\u6a39<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Cultivar<\/strong>: Yabukita + <i>zairai<\/i> tea trees grown from Yabukita seeds<\/p>\n<p><strong>Age:<\/strong> 35-50 years<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elevation:<\/strong> 250-300 masl<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shade:<\/strong> none<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fertilisation: <\/strong>none (but dry fallen leaves from surrounding forests are being scattered among the tea trees every year)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cultivation method:<\/strong> natural farming and certified organic (read more about organic and natural farming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/organic-and-natural-farming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Harvest:<\/strong> May 2024<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">Production method | <span lang=\"ja\">\u88fd\u8336\u65b9\u6cd5<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Steaming:<\/strong> medium (<em>futs\u016bmushi<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Hi-ire:<\/em><\/strong> none<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">Producer | <span lang=\"ja\">\u751f\u7523\u8005<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Tsukigase Kenk\u014d Chaen <span lang=\"ja\">\u6708\u30f6\u702c\u5065\u5eb7\u8336\u5712<\/span> under the direction of Fumiaki Iwata <span lang=\"ja\">\u5ca9\u7530\u6587\u660e<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">Origin | <span lang=\"ja\">\u7523\u5730<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Tsukigase in Nara, Japan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h4><span lang=\"ja\">\u6708\u30f6\u702c \u714e\u8336<\/span><\/h4>\n<h5>Unshaded sencha grown by natural farming methods without any use of fertiliser or pesticides by Fumiaki Iwata and his team at Tsukigase Kenk\u014d Chaen in Tsukigase, Nara.<\/h5>\n<h5>The low intervention in farming is mirrored by a minimal processing of the finished leaf \u2013 no shade before harvest, no <em>hi-ire<\/em> firing after.<\/h5>\n<h5>In the end, we are greeted by a pure expression of the pristine and uniquely mineral-rich topography characterizing the Tsukigase terroir: abounding in fresh spring vegetal notes and a clean minerality, a sip of Iwata-san\u2019s naturally farmed Tsukigase Sencha is almost like taking a sip of his tea gardens\u2019 mountainous landscape itself.<\/h5>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><em>spring forest \u2013 yuzu juice \u2013 cold iron<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8003\" src=\"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/oeko-labels_io_ny_lavres-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350px\" height=\"auto\"><\/p>\n<h5>kr. 175,00<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":17397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[210,191,105,137,207],"product_tag":[129,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-17379","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-natural-farming","7":"product_cat-tea","8":"product_cat-sencha-tea","9":"product_cat-shincha-2024","10":"product_cat-tsukigase-kenko-chaen-nara","11":"product_tag-sencha-en","12":"product_tag-shincha-en","14":"first","15":"outofstock","16":"taxable","17":"shipping-taxable","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\/17379","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=17379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=17379"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=17379"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=17379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}