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    Gyokuro Moments with Tea People  – Japan
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Oct 10, 2019
    • 3 min

    Gyokuro Moments with Tea People – Japan

    Some sage and simple wisdom as always from those who spend time at the source, at the cup, and in the tea houses. Travel through some of Japan’s tea zones has been an immersion into more informality than expected. Always instructive are the farmers themselves or those who spend heaps of time within the gardens. They speak more truths about tea in a shorter period than any sales guru I’ve ever met. In a field of leaves that will become Sencha in Mie Prefecture. Expected was a
    Akahiao Nature Institute…and tea times
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Apr 11, 2019
    • 3 min

    Akahiao Nature Institute…and tea times

    When, a few years ago, I left northwestern Yunnan to join my wife Julie and live here in Hawaii, there were concerns that I’d somehow be removed from what had been my base close to mountains and tea and of the wonderful effects that the two elements. A concern that a decade of unrivalled access to thin-aired wonder and culture, and that stimulant leaf that gives so much to each day, would be dimmed. Hawaii, and specifically Big Island, has its own narcotic charms with the tra
    Ayni – Reciprocity. The Third Installment of our Andean Journeys along the Inca Road
    Jeff Fuchs
    • Feb 27, 2019
    • 1 min

    Ayni – Reciprocity. The Third Installment of our Andean Journeys along the Inca Road

    The Llama’s ass, tea leaves, and a mountain where the Royal Incas came for guidance from the still-reverent spirit world. Our last installment (here) of the ‘In from the Outpost’ (on tea’ journeys through the Andean world. Pariaqaqa, a mountain that bowed all mortals in reverence features. A team full of passion for the skies, for the stories and for the leaves is to be thanked. The journey transverses so much more than simple national  borders and demarcations. It is a fluid

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