A customer asked me the other day, “Why does your Lishan High Mountain Tea cost NT$3,000 per 600 g while other places sell it for just NT$600?” We get this question so often, so I figured I’d address it all at once~👩 Let’s break down the production costs of high mountain tea for you. Tea
High mountain cherry blossoms have been blooming everywhere lately, and any fully blossomed cherry tree in the mountains is simply breathtaking. I once heard a saying: “When cherry blossoms bloom, the tea plants end their dormancy and wake up.” Looking at the growth cycle of tea plants, that really seems to be the case. No
An essential task in tea plantation management is “moss removal,” which involves clearing the moss growing on the tea trees. These parasitic plants steal nutrients from the tea trees, and once a tea tree lacks nutrients, the tea will taste bland and weak. Therefore, professional tea plantation managers treat moss removal as a top priority.
It poured in northern Taiwan on Monday, and the weather forecast predicted a chance of rain in Lishan over the next couple of days. Eager to share in the joy of the upcoming rain with local tea farmers, our store manager headed up the mountain excitedly on March 13th. To everyone’s disappointment, only a light
At the end of April, our store manager visited the tea plantations in the Ruan’an tea district of Zhushan Township. Along the Tou 49 township road at elevations between 800 and 1,000 meters, many tea gardens had already finished harvesting. The highest Ruan’an tea district at the end of the route has also entered its
Reporting on Lushan Tribe and Tunyuan together doesn’t take much, mainly because this area isn’t doing well. While Qilai Mountain as a whole isn’t fantastic, a few tea gardens are performing exceptionally well and might just yield some stellar batches. Lushan Tribe / Tunyuan 96K (Figure 34): Quite devastating. We originally expected this northern location
Bad news keeps coming. The Tunyuan Qilai Mountain autumn tea that the store manager had high hopes for didn’t turn out well, so this year’s Qilai Mountain autumn tea will be missing as well 😭😭 ================This year, we haven’t stocked any autumn tea from Lishan, Cuifeng, or Qilai Mountain. If we had to pick the
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The Lishan winter tea season is coming to an end, while ShanLinXi LongFengXia is just entering its peak harvest period. This year’s winter tea from LongFengXia and Budongyu is “looking great,” and with fantastic weather during the harvest, this season is shaping up to be “above average in quality.” /*! elementor – v3.17.0 – 25-10-2023
This year’s spring tea season in the Alishan tea region was pretty gloomy, but the winter tea is making a strong comeback, bouncing back to about 90% of normal yields with great-looking tea leaves. Here in Zhangshuhu, Taihe, Meishan, the winter tea harvest entered its peak period as early as late October. /*! elementor –
Fertilizer prices have skyrocketed over the past two years. Common 20kg soybean meal fertilizer has jumped from NT$500-something to nearly NT$700—an increase of about NT$150. Assuming 200 bags of fertilizer are applied per chia (approx. 0.97 hectares), that’s an extra NT$60,000 a year just on fertilizer, leaving many tea farmers feeling the pinch. High-mountain tea
Proper tea garden management is truly critical. Good management not only boosts yield, but also improves quality year after year. When managed poorly, a sudden decline in a tea garden is far from rare. Over the past few years, the store manager has witnessed cases of failed tea garden management in Lishan, Alishan, Cingjing, and
In January, the high-mountain tea regions have no tea leaves to harvest, but tea farmers are still as busy as ever. This is because it’s currently the season for “winter tea tree fertilization,” a crucial task that directly impacts the quality of next year’s tea. As the store manager always says, tea plantation managers who
Let’s chat a bit about “tea plantation frost protection fans.” The first time the shopkeeper saw one was over a decade ago at Fushoushan Farm. At the time, I thought Fushoushan Farm was being quite kind by installing electric fans to cool down the tea trees. Turns out, it was the exact opposite—the fans are
With the impact of the pandemic, conflicts, and inflation, prices have soared over the past two years. Recently, Taiwan even faced an egg shortage, with tea eggs rising to NT$13 each. It seems the era of high inflation is truly upon us. /*! elementor – v3.10.0 – 09-01-2023 */ .elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=”.svg”]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block} As
