Seeing rice grown in buckets and styrofoam boxes always amazes me: focusing the national obsession with the main staple into a city scale. ....
3 Aug 5:02 pm  from  Unknown   [Profile]  [Recent] 

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....
25 Jul 3:21 pm  from  Unknown   [Profile]  [Recent] 

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....
26 Jun 8:29 am  from  Unknown   [Profile]  [Recent] 

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....
29 May 1:50 pm  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 

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....
7 May 10:05 am  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 

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....
4 May 11:52 pm  from  Jamaipanese   [Profile]  [Recent] 

I recently read Azby Brown’s book, Just Enough: Lessons in Living Green from Traditional Japan. Brown is an architect, professor, author,....
23 Feb 9:02 am  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 

The New York Times recently reported that Chicago residents are increasingly keeping pygmy goats in their back yards, joining chicken coops....
25 Jan 9:03 am  from     [Profile]  [Recent] 

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....
30 Dec 4:06 am  from  Stippy   [Profile]  [Recent] 

I visited Odakyu’s Agris Seijo rental farm in Seijogakuenmae in Setagaya and was prepared to be charmed by a community vegetable farm bui....
22 Nov 10:54 pm  from  Tokyo Green Space   [Profile]  [Recent]