about us

Verdant mountains covered with morning mist　・・・・
The river flows meanderingly through the mountains　・・・・
The pond has been there for hundreds of years filled with water to the brim. Yamada-En has been located since 1984 in these surroundings and producing and supplying quality green tea to our customers all over Japan. Yes, of course! We can offer on your request even outside Japan!

Our attitude toward future

We are now making efforts to foster continual improvement and to upgrade environmental awareness by considering ecological impact through our performance.

For the first step for our aim, we have obtained the certification in ISO 14001 and JAS(Japanese Agricultural Standard) Organic Certification this year.

Access to green leaves

He just wanted all drinking water to be boiled as a hygienic precaution.
So his servant began to boil water while his master was taking a rest on a hot summer day, over 5000 years ago in ancient China.

His name was Shen Nong, an emperor and a skilled ruler, who was also a creative scientist full of curiosity.

On that day he was visiting a distant region of his realm with his court.
He ordered the court to stop for a rest, and was enjoying a summer breeze under a tree. Then a gust blew and some pieces of leaves from th nearby bush fell into the boiling water for them to drink and a brown liquid was infused into the water.

Shen Nong, as a scientist, was interested in that new liquid, tried the brew, and found it very refreshing. The aroma given from it made him more curious and alert.

He found the bush and named it "tea", and took the bud and the fruit back home for study, and it was widespread throughout China after that, and to Southeast Asia, to Korea and Japan, and up to Europe via the Silk Road.

And nowadays "Tea ", which is pronounced "Cha 茶" in Pure Cantonese and "Tay 茶" in Dialect of Amoy, is one of the most prevailing non-alcoholic beverages in the world.

Access to a green thumb

Just imagine you have your own garden to grow your favorite vegetables such as carrots or lettuce. Yes, you are a Sunday-farmer! How about strawberries for dessert?

Maybe you will try an organic gardening without using chemical fertilizer or any poisonous pesticides. Because you are worried about yourself or your family. And after the first harvest you will make another plan to plant. And again and again and again ・・・・ . The more you can get, the happier you will be, right?

It may be a little bit too technical but　・・・・・
Chemical fertilizers put your soil on a speed trip. But the availability of more plant food than can be aaccepted disturbs the normal component balance of the soil. Everything living in the soil gets pushed way beyond its normal rhythm of life and humus stores are depleted.

To maintain fertail soil that is rich in organic matter can be a help of pest control. Then healthy plants are more resistant to virus and to insect invasion. So many aphides are bred for the reason of the usage of pesticides because it wipes out all their predetors.

So encourage and import predetors into your garden. Ladybugs, praying mantes, lizards and birds all like to eat a variety of small insects. It is effective to plant smelly flowers such as marigold or chrysanthemum next to susceptible plants. Even onions or garlic will do.

After several months of organic gardening, you will have a greener thumb for sure!

Access to a green planet

They called her "hysterical", "a fanatic defender of the cult of the balance of nature."

"If a man were to follow the teaching of her, we would return to the Dark Age, and the insects and diseases and vermin would once again inherit the earth," said Dr. Robert White-Stevens to the public as a spokesman for the chemical industry.

Thousands of dollars were spent trying to discredit her book and herself, but no one factual error has ever been found in the book. In response to the book, President Kennedy established a special panel to study pesticides, and its report confirmed her work.

On April 14, 1964, the Pensylvania native, a marine biologist Rachel Carson died, following a long battle with cancer.

In her book "Silent Spring", published in 1962 after nearly five-year researching and writing, Carson warned that man's imperfect understanding of how biological agents work was a recipe for disaster.

Her book, one of the landmark books of the twentieth century for sure, focused on the poisons from pesticides, weed killers, and other common products as well as the use of sprays in agriculture, a practice that led to dangerous chemicals in the food source.

Actually we have expanded our environmental impact beyond the application of those toxicity of pesticides . Many of these impacts, such as destruction of rain forests, depletion of stratospheric ozone, air and water pollution, have global dimensions.

Well, have we improved ourselves since Silent Spring? At any rate it is sure that her voice would never be silenced.