Ume Juice and Umeboshi Making
On a crisp summer day today (June 19), the red, white, and pink azaleas welcomed us cheerfully at Kuraokakurara.
The eldest children from Kuraoka Nursery School and first graders from Kuraoka Elementary gathered to make ume juice and umeboshi.🤗
The children had harvested plenty of fresh ume at the Kuraoka district orchard the day before.😳💕
Under the guidance of the neighborhood’s “ume expert,” who lives in the Kuraoka area, everyone packed the prepared ume into jars.
They will take the jars back to school, turn them over every day, and let them develop until the juices rise.💪
When the red shiso season arrives, they will move on to the next step.💡 It sounds delightful.🥰
It seems the children, now junior ume experts, also took some ume home, so they will likely enjoy processing them at home while passing on what they learned to their families.🤩✨
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