Rice in buckets outside Waseda campus gate
Seeing rice grown in buckets and styrofoam boxes always amazes me: focusing the national obsession with the main staple into a city scale. ....
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Eating balcony-grown watermelon
In San Francisco, my garden is shaded and the cold summer makes growing vegetables very difficult. It’s been fun this summer to grow a va....
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Azby Brown reads from Edo book in San Francisco
My friend Azby Brown will be reading from his new book at four events in San Francisco next week. I highly recommend attending his book talk....
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Mountain dairy farm (森林の牧場)
On the trip to Nasu in Tochigi two weekends ago, we visited a unique mountain cow dairy called Shinrin no bokujo (森林の牧場) that pr....
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Pasona’s new farm and landscaped building
Some friends and I visited Pasona’s new office last week. They are a large Japanese staffing farm that had a highly publicized basement f....
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Manga Farming anyone?
There is a new way to recycle and reuse old manga books in Japan – use them for farming! o_O. Tokyo-based artist Koshi Ka....
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Azby Brown’s book, Just Enough: Lessons in Living Green from Traditional Japan
I recently read Azby Brown’s book, Just Enough: Lessons in Living Green from Traditional Japan. Brown is an architect, professor, author,....
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Pygmy goats are popular in cities
The New York Times recently reported that Chicago residents are increasingly keeping pygmy goats in their back yards, joining chicken coops....
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The Quest for Japan’s Best Hamburger: Part 4 – Pocke Farm
Locomoco Burger at Pocke Farm in Okinawa - Not as nice looking as the one on the menu but the wholemeal buns made up for itUnless you get cl....
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Agris Seijo rental farm in Seijogakuenmae
I visited Odakyu’s Agris Seijo rental farm in Seijogakuenmae in Setagaya and was prepared to be charmed by a community vegetable farm bui....
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