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松下園の取り組み
子供たちのお茶摘み体験
掛川市の子供たちは小学3年生に成ると「お茶博士になろう」と学んでいます。
いつもは教室で学ぶ子供たちが、青空の下、全身で学ぶお茶摘み体験です。
どこか懐かしい風景の有機茶園で地元の子供たちがお茶摘み体験をします。
小学校から近い山なりのお茶畑は、見晴らしの良い急傾斜畑です。
この日は松下園のスタッフが先生役、「おはようございます」の挨拶から始まります。
どの子もニコニコしながら新緑の景色に溶け込み、新芽さんに「いただきます」と感謝しながら、ひと芽、ひと芽優しく摘んでいます。
お茶の町掛川とは、良いお茶を沢山生産する事も大事ですが「お茶好き」な人が多く、お茶を学ぶ市民や子供も多い町なのです。
子供たちの記憶に「子供の頃のお茶摘み体験」が宿り、世界へ羽ばたく若者に育ちます様に願っております。
学校で音楽に時間に学んだ「茶摘み歌」の大合唱が賑やかに響きます。
Picking tea leaves experience for children.
All 3rd graders at elementary schools in Kakegawa participate in a program called “Become a Tea Expert.” They come out of the school and experience picking tea leaves under the wide blue sky.
They enjoy the great nature in our beautiful organic tea farm on the steep slope.
Our staff at the farm are the teachers for them on that day. They begin with morning greeting, “Ohayogozaimasu!” The children blend with the rows of tea bushes and pick the new leaves one by one.
Kakegawa is famous not only producing tons of green tea, but also has many citizens who love green tea. Many citizens from children to elderly are willing to learn about tea.
We hope their experience of picking new green tea leaves during their childhood would remain as a fond memory when they grow up. We also hope they would remember the tune and lyrics of the famous national folksong called ‘Song of Plucking Tea Leaves’ along with their experience.
自由気ままな「お茶会」
生産した有機茶で四季のお茶会を計画し、楽しんで頂きながら新たな茶造りのヒントを頂いております。
お世話に成っている方をお招きして農場で春風茶会、子供たちとの青空茶会、海外でのメルシー茶会、海外記者クラブの方と新茶でお茶会など、一碗の茶が楽しい憩いのひと時に役立ち、生活を豊かに演出する気ままなお茶会です。
お饅頭が人数分有れば、畑の中にも笑顔の咲くお茶会です。
学びながら、体験しながら、おせんべいとチョコレートが有れば賑やかなお茶会です。
パリの菓子職人が作った洋菓子と有機深蒸し茶で日仏コラボ茶会です。
仲良く成る事、生命を感じる事、急須の中で抽出する待つ時間も覚えます。
海外では、煎茶席で緑茶の効能を伝え、抹茶席で日本文化を紹介しながら笑顔を頂きます。
孫との縁側茶会はのんびりと、ほんの少しおすましする姿を眺めながら楽しみます。
萌黄色から若草色に変わり、風になびく緑の絨毯を思い出しながら、お茶を楽しむ、お茶を楽しんで頂く、人と人の出会いが嬉しいお茶会です。
ぜひ、お茶会をお楽しみくださいませ。
Freestyle Tea Ceremony
We plan tea ceremonies for each season with our organic tea products. We do so to have fun and to receive feedback. We have “Tea Ceremony with Spring Breeze” for all friends and volunteers, “Tea Ceremony Under Blue Sky” for children, “Merci Tea Ceremony” in foreign countries, and other tea ceremonies with foreign reporters. One cup of tea at a ceremony can offer a fun time and enrich our lives.
Often we have sweet buns for all the guests; their smiles blossom like the tea bushes. We sometimes have rice crackers and chocolate as we have fun learning about tea.
We have a collaboration tea ceremony mixing with French culture. We enjoy organic deep-steamed green tea with European desserts made by a patissier from Paris. We make friends and embrace wholesome lives during the time we wait for the tea leaves steeped in a pot.
When we go outside of Japan, we tell the benefits of green tea during green tea ceremonies. When we have matcha tea ceremonies, we talk about Japanese culture.
We enjoy a little tea ceremony with our grandchildren at veranda, too. A cup of tea on such occasion makes them feel they are grown-ups.
Tea ceremony is for bringing people together and connecting heart to heart. Tea leaves have different colors each season just as we all have different lives.
Please come join us for our tea ceremony.