Thanks for the Tamaryokucha deeper dive - I am familiar with this tea because of Ureshino but haven’t had the Miyazaki ones yet - I did visit Gokase last shincha season and enjoyed how passionate the growers were there about kamairicha- and organic growing, which is easier for them at higher elevation (so high in Gokase that there is a ski resort right there!)
I wonder if it might benefit them to open up their operations to internship/international job boards. Lots of people travel the world to work on vineyards (myself included last fall). There seems to be a cast of characters open to doing passion work to learn from the best in a hands on way.
Thanks for this deep dive into tamaryokucha and Miyazaki
This is definitely happening in a lot of places Hudson - Kyoto Obubu Tea’s internship program which has been going since 2015 https://obubutea.com/about-us/internship/ and Shizuoka Prefecture’s tea study program come to mind: https://www.o-cha.net/english/shizuoka-tea-study-program/index.html come to mind but I’m sure there are others. It’s more of a scale issue at this point and, I imagine, a language barrier issue - you need someone to help facilitate the workers coming from abroad. I imagine it will continue to ramp up going forward though.
Thanks for the Tamaryokucha deeper dive - I am familiar with this tea because of Ureshino but haven’t had the Miyazaki ones yet - I did visit Gokase last shincha season and enjoyed how passionate the growers were there about kamairicha- and organic growing, which is easier for them at higher elevation (so high in Gokase that there is a ski resort right there!)
I wonder if it might benefit them to open up their operations to internship/international job boards. Lots of people travel the world to work on vineyards (myself included last fall). There seems to be a cast of characters open to doing passion work to learn from the best in a hands on way.
Thanks for this deep dive into tamaryokucha and Miyazaki
This is definitely happening in a lot of places Hudson - Kyoto Obubu Tea’s internship program which has been going since 2015 https://obubutea.com/about-us/internship/ and Shizuoka Prefecture’s tea study program come to mind: https://www.o-cha.net/english/shizuoka-tea-study-program/index.html come to mind but I’m sure there are others. It’s more of a scale issue at this point and, I imagine, a language barrier issue - you need someone to help facilitate the workers coming from abroad. I imagine it will continue to ramp up going forward though.