Assistant Supervisor Weblog by Pau [Spring season]

Spring is by far the busiest interval of the 12 months on the farm. It’s excessive season for tourism, so we welcomed many company for our 4-hour excursions and our different experiences. For farming, the season began with a late winter harvest for Kyobancha. Then we began with early trimming, shading and lots of different preparations on the fields.

In March, we celebrated the twentieth anniversary of Obubu, the occasion occurred on the newly renovated 2nd ground of our manufacturing facility, and we welcomed many company, earlier interns and even some tea membership members that got here for the occasion. In March, we additionally stated goodbye to our senpai assistant supervisor Jean, hello Jean! I’m so grateful that I might be taught a lot from him throughout my preliminary 6 months at Obubu. This goodbye turned the welcome time for our subsequent batch of interns that may assist us for spring, and likewise our two subsequent assistant managers, Mac and Alix. The image under is one among my favorites from that welcome and farewell social gathering.

In April, we additionally received the prospect to take part within the hand-picking a part of the Wazuka hand rolling preservation society. Each spring, they collect for a day to handpick and hand roll a few batches of their extremely coveted hand rolled sencha. It takes round 3 hours to handpick sufficient tea to supply barely in need of 2 kg of completed product. Then again on the occasion house, the farmers from city, along with Kenta-san, the president of the affiliation, will spend round 6 hours producing an ideal needle form tea. We’re fortunate to have Kenta-san come to Obubu to do an intensive workshop with him, a very distinctive alternative to be taught from a farmer that has been awarded as the number one in Japan two instances

Throughout spring, we received the prospect to reap, shade, clip, course of and do many extra actions within the discipline and manufacturing facility. As an assistant supervisor, you might be additionally tasked with main a group when harvesting at Aoimori and be the primary supporter with Akky along with the opposite interns within the harvest group that day. Whereas the harvest is ongoing, exercise doesn’t cease on the farm with excursions, and occasions along with lengthy nights processing on the manufacturing facility.

The ensuing scheduling is a giant rotation of individuals switching between farm, manufacturing facility, and tourism actions from Monday to Sunday. This was essentially the most surprising a part of my keep at Obubu. I knew that spring is essentially the most busy season of all, however to take action whereas maintaining with all the opposite occasions going on the similar time was really outstanding. By the tip of the day, I keep in mind feeling rewarded with a way of feat, however it is usually a extremely bodily and psychological job to hold for such a protracted time period. Specifically on the finish of the season, I couldn’t perceive how Akky pulled harvesting within the morning and processing till late at evening. This is able to have been unattainable with out the extraordinary assist of all of our interns. All of them poured all they needed to provide into this complicated interval of the 12 months. Thanks all, we did it!