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Long time no see, Hamish. Apparently Japanese agriculture has been in peril for decades, no longer compete with foreign products on price, however, I suppose Japanese farmers find some handholds to survive recently. As people doubt the reliability of foreign foods and are aware of LOHAS movement, some Japanese farmer opens their field as agricultural institute.
My friend’s brother teaches urban elder people how to grow vegetable, how to maintain good soil and so on. Maybe some farmer family starts to run a guesthouse nearby, farmers’ wives come up with a lot of recipe of each item and put it on their website, hold harvest festival or farmers market as well. Anyway Japanese farm must achieve functions of agricultural education and literacy, make it more interactive, enjoyable besides crops … in this small land.
How about me? Agriculture is closer thing to me. I’ve grown up in a farming village, neighbors let me in their farm and allowed us to pick the fruit and vegetable. I learned that --- the sweeter the strawberry was, the more mice or insects bit. There were both sides of life, not only beautiful but also wild. The life wasn’t and still isn’t like land of milk and honey at all, it’s something muddy, boring, sometimes rather dirty ---- but healthy.
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