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Mt Fuji Mint Tea – for sale online!!!!
December 28, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Finally our 100% non-certified Organic Mt Fuji Mint Tea is available for easy home delivery!!! The team over at Tengu-Alishan have been providing the best organics and fair trade food in Japan for 20 years now, and have the most extensive catalog you will find anywhere here. Our mint is all hand grown and harvested in our small field at the base of MT Fuji in Narusawa village. We grow using permaculture practices with plum trees and raspberry bushes lining the fields. All natural, all the time! The blend of our three mints, applemint, spearmint and white peppermint is unique in its mildness and smooth flavor. Great as a hot tea on chilly mornings or as an ice tea come summer. Get yours now, cause when its gone, we will be waiting for June before we can harvest more… Click here for ordering Mt Fuji Mint Tea at Alishan 
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Organic Mint Chocolate Strawberry Tofu Cheesecake!!!
June 17, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
New on the Solar Cafe menu….this cake is made with organic mint and strawberries grown on our own farm, and fair trade organic 100% cocoa powder from Alishan. The “cheese” cake is made with tofu instead of cheese, so it is waaaay healthy too!
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Companion Planting; Organic Rice, Wheat and Soy Beans
June 12, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
We planted our first rice paddy today! The organic rice “ine” (seedlings) are especially adapted to thrive with the cold weather we have been having this year. We planted about 125 tsubo (410m2) which should yield about 200kg of rice come harvest time in November. Seven Earth Embassy farm staff and interns did this in about 2 hrs. Thats 100kg an hour! We also helped local farmer Hirata-san plant soy beans in between rows of wheat, which will help control weeds and fix nitrogen in the soil as a fertilizer. Looking forward to home-made bread, beans and rice come fall. Hope you can join us for a meal.
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Our Fruits are almost Ripe ALREADY!!!!
Despite a chilly spring, all of our fruits and berries are already coming! The strawberries will be ripe within the week, the blueberries are getting some size to them, and the peaches are already starting to get a little yellow around the edges. It is going to be an amazing year for pies and shakes at the Solar Cafe. We also just perfected the recipe for our own HOME-MADE graham cracker crusts ( we make them from scratch with organic graham flour!) But come early and come often, because good homemade pie waits for no man, woman or beast!
