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Mint Tea Packaging Crew

The wonderful people at Oguri Noen in Shizuoka are processing our mint and packing it into tea bags.  The tea farm was started by Mr. Oguri’s father nearly 40years ago and has expanded to become the main packaging operation for all the local green tea farms.  Their high-tech clean room facility and extreme attention to detail ensure the utmost care is given to cleanly and safely packaging our tea.

We also will be working with their blending master this year to develop a few new flavors for our line of Mt Fuji Natural Teas.  Check back with us in the summer for new tastes and herbal medicinal teas!!!

World’s First Strawberry Pizza!!!

Yes, its true!!!   Nate and Masako came up to the Solar Cafe for a second honeymoon (our wedding gift to them).

And as a special treat, we pulled out a special special recipe.  Strawberry pizza with bananas and Jake’s special chai yogurt sauce.  In a few years when this is a world wide standard, it will just be a rumor that it actually started in our kitchen.   (available by special request in June when our berries are in season)

Chestnut Harvest

The wild chestnut trees were just babies sprung from seeds carried by the crows when we first started farming the land on the edge of Aokigahara Forest. Now 15 feet tall they provided us with a months worth of chestnut cake, chestnut rice, and of course roasting on an open fire. And those are just the ones that the deer left for us.

Fresh Shitake Mushroom Farming!!!

We first tried spawning our own mushrooms last year but didnt have much luck.  This spring we tried a few oak logs with spores but again only 2 or 3 shrooms popped out in the season.  Until last week! This late in the fall we werent expecting anything, we one morning Eli was going to feed the sheep and noticed a whole mini forest of Shitake had sprung up over night.  Our new Shitake Carmelized Onion pizza is to die for! Supplies limited, and you had better beat Jake to the kitchen or they will be all gone…

Cosmic Purple Carrots!!!

This has been our best year ever on the farm.  Even into November when nights are frosty and Fuji is covered with fresh snow every morning, we are still eating from the gardens.  I cant describe the taste of real carrot if all you have ever eaten in those things they sell in the supermarket and call “carrots”.  You have to try it yourself to understand.  Its like you were eating plain white bread your whole life and then someone gave you a sandwich. The cosmic purple carrots are so good if you eat one, you will just want a plate of carrots for dinner and nothing else.

Proud Mama!

Congratulations Na-chan, it’s a ZUCHINNI!!!

The 2009 Mint Harvest

The weather this year was irratic; dry in the rainy season, wet all August, lots of Japanese beetles, and our mint loved it all! Another stellar harvest year, the mint was the first green in the fields in April when the snow still lay in the shadows, and now nearing frost it is still going strong and we are picking fresh young leaves for drying every day. We hope to pull 30kg from the main field. The Spearmint seems especially flavorful this season. Visit this page for Mt Fuji Natural Teas ordering.

Our first peanuts are HUGE!!!

This is the first year we have grown peanuts, with apparent great sucess! Have you ever seen a bigger peanut?

Mint, Basil and Parsley take center stage

We found the best drying space for our herbs is in a well lit and aerated space. 5 days drting on our stage our herbs are crisp and green and ready for packaging. Move over Elvis, Mr. Mint is here!

The most beautiful pepper of 2009 award goes too…

Wild Chestnut Season

Autumn has come to Fuji and the wild chestnut trees around our fields are feeding us well this year. We have been eating roast nuts and chestnut rice everyday. The wild Akebi vines are also coming ripe. The strange fruit pod pops open and the thing that looks like a fat white caterpillar inside is a sweet as pure sugar and juicy. Just be sure to spit out the seeds.

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