柑橘について · 24日 5月 2026
You often see these fruits 🍊 at supermarkets and the like, but did you know that they start as flowers that eventually develop into fruit? Organic 🍊 cultivation in May. It’s the blooming season for mandarin oranges 🌸, and some farmers even say that the success of the harvest is determined at this stage—that’s how important these mandarin orange 🍊 flowers 🌸 are. In early May, small white flowers with a strong scent similar to jasmine reach full bloom, attracting bees 🐝...
柑橘について · 30日 3月 2026
“Producers, Companies, and the Prefecture， How are Collaborating to Expand Overseas Exports” This is a scene from a media interview at Kikuchi Farm in Yawatahama in late January 2026.
柑橘について · 20日 1月 2026
Safe, secure, and delicious citrus from Ehime to the world ⛵🍊 This shows the sorting and shipping process at Uwajima Ueda Farm in Ehime Prefecture's Nanyo region. Handling container transport carts, we load the freshly harvested 🍊 oranges into the hopper 🍊. Each 🍊 is carefully sorted by hand into Grade A and Grade B (oversized, citrus canker, damaged, etc.), passing through drum holes and receiving final approval ✅. We then grade and pack them according to orders. Recently, it...
柑橘について · 08日 1月 2026
Year-end harvest support at Uwajima's Ueda Farm in Ehime Prefecture's Nanyo region for Satsuma mandarins (Nankitsu No. 20🍊)! (First visit since July's grass cutting). The steep, southeast-facing orchard at 250m elevation is laden with fruit🍊, and harvesting begins around sunrise🌞. While Ehime's citrus terraced slopes are commonly known as “danbata” (段畑), locals refer to them as “doha” (土坡), essentially earthen embankments. Now, about the harvest: this time, I brought my...
柑橘について · 16日 12月 2025
Bringing Safe, Delicious Citrus from Ehime to the World Support the harvest and shipment of the Ehime-exclusive variety Madonna (Ehime Fruit Trial No. 28)※ at Higuchi Farm in Tobe Town, Ehime Prefecture! Here, we cultivate a variety of citrus fruits, plums, kiwis, and rice without pesticides, chemical fertilizers, or herbicides. We use charcoal as field fertilizer to improve soil conditions. We also produce organic citrus juice and offer a full range of products, including avocados,...
柑橘について · 14日 12月 2025
From this year, we conducted hands-on training sessions (classroom learning, harvesting, field visits) focused on business succession! Participants enthusiastically learned about Kikuchi Farm's labor-saving techniques, environmental improvements, and the resulting increases in yield and stable quality enhancement—dispelling the notion that “organic citrus farming must be difficult”! Everyone was fascinated by the vitality of the plants unique to organic farming and the fluffy texture of...
柑橘について · 06日 12月 2025
The peak harvest season for organic early-ripening Satsuma mandarins is here! While summer sunburn and persistently high temperatures since September slightly delayed ripening, at Kikuchi Farm in Yahatahama City—free from chemical pesticides, fertilizers, preservatives, and herbicides—the fruit is plump, and the plants are truly vigorous and lush! Amazingly, they can be harvested right off the branch! The reason is the alternate-bearing system: half the tree bears fruit one year, then the...
柑橘ジュースについて · 14日 11月 2025
Novembre、A special cocktail created by @diamonddogsnyc. Diamond Dogs X Ehime Kankitsu Citrus Farmers X Iichiko Shochu Garnished with our Dried Heart-Shaped Rinoka Lemon, organically grown in Ehime Prefecture 🍋Many thanks to everyone who made this wonderful collaboration possible! We’ll be producing more of these unique heart-shaped citrus fruits in different varieties next year. Please stay tuned!
