The typhoon on June 19th flattened the corn. Almost uprooted it. Two days after being knocked down, the corn is almost standing up straight again. (The crows didn’t bother this corn field. Maybe they didn’t want to pick on … Continue reading →
Mt. Fuji looked like this. I could see the damage to the corn from the roof. This is ground zero. The corn looked like this before the typhoon. Yesterday, the zucchini in another farmer’s field was curved. Today, it’s … Continue reading →
The storm stopped trains in Tokyo and grounded planes. From a distance it looks like the fields out here in west Tokyo came through the storm okay. Some of the netting was blown off, but there was also some damage. … Continue reading →
Our vegetable stand man usually covers some young plants with plastic to protect them. This morning he was putting nets over the plastic for more protection. A big storm is coming toward Japan. It is a lot of work! (The … Continue reading →
150 yen for a full head of Chinese cabbage! Direct from the field. Click to enlarge the photo and you’ll see another, bigger hakusai on the bottom shelf. Can you see the farmer in the shadows? He’s minding the … Continue reading →
This 85 year old farmer transplanted some broccoli seedlings today. At least I think it’s broccoli. I didn’t interrupt him to ask. I just watched him dig up the seedlings in one area of his field to transplant here. … Continue reading →
Those guys missed all the action. That’s our vegetable stand man working in the fields. He’s moving sato imo to store them for the winter. Those are sakura, cherry blossom trees on the right.
Even though it was labor Thanksgiving in Japan today, our vegetable stand man and his wife were busy. He cut the stems of yatsugashira. He biked them over to the stand where his wife stripped the outer skin off … Continue reading →
Our neighborhood farmer walked along this row squeezing the heads of these cabbages. He chose one and cut it off at its base. Then he cut some of the outer leaves away from the head. He put it in … Continue reading →