“This was the first time that we sold tea directly to consumers and the reaction is amazing because, after all as growers of tea, it’s great to hear from someone who’s drinking that tea at home.”
Five hundred miles south of the destruction caused by the tsunami and Tōhoku quake, Yasuharu Matsumoto, vice president of the Kyoto Obubu Tea Farms, called for volunteers to travel north on a mission motivated by kindness.
A one-day Introduction to the tea industry’s newest professional certification program will be rolled out in March. Covid-19 restrictions mean that training initially will be delivered online. This enables students from anywhere in the world to enroll.