We received these photos from the JA Wakiyama Youth Division.

Wakiyama is said to be the birthplace of Japanese tea, but tea farming had once ceased due to a lack of successors.
The Agri Club and the JA Fukuoka City Wakiyama Youth Division came together and restarted cultivation in abandoned tea fields.

The photo is apparently from a mochi-pounding event.
Matching aprons look cool at events like this.
Thank you for the wonderful photos!

(Article by Fukuda)