{"id":369,"date":"2010-05-29T22:55:27","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T08:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/eggsntea\/?p=369"},"modified":"2010-05-29T22:55:27","modified_gmt":"2010-05-30T08:55:27","slug":"tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/2010\/05\/tea\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a long time since we’ve blogged about tea. The field has been growing exceedingly well, particular in the wet wet weather which stayed wet until mid-April this year. Tea loves rain! Our February 22 harvest, a full-bodied oolong, was announced on facebook and did well. The May 1 harvest experienced difficult conditions, surprisingly hot and dry, which sun-cooked the leaves even before processing. More recently, we did a harvest on May 21 which was made into two kinds of green tea: classic Chinese green, and my attempt at a Japanese green. The Chinese turned out very good. For the Japanese, we don’t have one of those heated tables that traditional rolling<\/a> is done on, so i improvised. The result is promising – it does taste like sencha – but probably not yet good enough to sell. You can try some if you come by the farm.<\/p>\n

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Recent intern Alisha, picking leaves for the May 21 harvest made into green tea.<\/p>\n

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After the major pruning of 5\/25, all the older plants are now hedges<\/p>\n

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Some young tea plants, freshly planted up the hillside. Recent intern Comus helped with much of the planting.<\/p>\n

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View of the lower field which is nearly all grown in, and now pruned into hedges<\/p>\n

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Note the pruning makes a lot of stick-ends, each of which should sprout multiple leaves next time, all at the same height for abundant and easy harvesting<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been a long time since we’ve blogged about tea. The field has been growing exceedingly well, particular in the wet wet weather which stayed wet until mid-April this year. Tea loves rain! Our February 22 harvest, a full-bodied oolong, was announced on facebook and did well. The May 1 harvest experienced difficult conditions, surprisingly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/farmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}