Ian Chun ’01 sends the following.
Tea farmers to discuss their experience with radiation contamination and hold tea tasting from non-affected Japanese regions and Taiwan.
| RSVP: | Ian Chun (ian@mlatte.com) 090-9200-8538 |
| Date: | Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011 |
| Time: | 10:00 am – 11:30 am |
| Max Attendance: | 20 persons |
| Place: | Restaurant Yasai Kichi, (between Aoyama Itchome and Gaienmae near the 7-eleven Stations) www.yasaikichi.jp |
Yasai Kichi is a new restaurant café dedicated to sourcing and serving high quality, healthy, organic vegetable products from farmers throughout Japan. View Google map here.
Event Summary
The International Tea Farms Alliance (ITFA) is hosting a tea tasting and lecture on Sept. 10, 2011 (Saturday), where founder Matsumoto Yasuharu will be speaking about the establishment and debut of this new non-profit organization amid the global focus on radiation contamination of tea leaves in Japan after the Tohoku Earthquake. Tea farmers from Minami Ashigara, one of the first regions discovered to have radiation contamination above government standards, will also be present to discuss their experience.The ITFA will also be serving tea from tea farms of various regions in Kyoto, Shizuoka, and Fukuoka as well as Taiwan via their Japan distributor.
The ITFA is a new Japan-based non-profit organization of tea farmers from around the world that seeks to bridge the distance between producers and consumers. It participated in North America’s largest tea trade show, World Tea Expo (June 24 – 26), where founder Matsumoto Yasuharu was a panelist discussing issues related to the radiation contamination crisis with some 200 tea industry professionals in attendance.
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