New tea leaves appearing!

New tea leaf buds are just starting to appear at the kinezuka’s tea farm. Ayumi-san writes (loosely translated by Ian): “The leaves are starting to grow day by day. Rain due tomorrow so it should jump in growth. In recent years we have had late frost that threatened to damage the tea leaves, but the weather seems to be cooperating this year. I hope we’ll have a shincha harvest without any problems!”