June is generally the rainy season, and rather than being an exciting season, it is more of a dreary season between Golden Week and summer vacation.

June is the season when various fresh herbs flourish on the farm. Let's continue with the topic of mint.

What I personally enjoy this season is cocktails that use lots of fresh mint."Mojito"The key is to enjoy the taste. "Mojito" is a rum-based cocktail, but the rum here is the alcoholic beverage rum, not the lamb that runs around the pasture, just to be clear. Recently, it seems that many people are making it with not only rum, but also vodka or gin to reduce the sweetness.

The Mojito is a world-famous cocktail that was a favorite of the author Hemingway.

It's beautiful to look at and has a refreshing feeling, like a cool grassland breeze spreading gently in your mouth. It's absolutely amazing.

It is said that there are about 40 varieties of mint, including the refreshing scent of spearmint, the strong, refreshing scent of peppermint, the Japanese mint Mentha, the faintly fruity scents of apple mint and pineapple mint, etc. It's fun to try different mints each time.

The Herb & Plant Shop at Ark Tategamori stocks 10 different types of mint, so if you're a mint lover, let's delve deeper into the joys of mint.

Hiroshi Yabe, Agricultural Department