We have just started new garden !!

We cultivated the our land yesterday and I have some photos to show you. .No one had used  this land for many years, so this was a big challenge for us.

In the begining it was like this photo.Then we spent many hours cutting the grass.
                              

This is my good friend, using a tractor!!!

Finally finished.
Thank you for helping us mates!!!

New field !! New garden!! This is for my vegetables!!

This field is my new garden!! I can use this field from next months. No one cultivated this field for a few years.That is good for my plan too.

I couldn't rent the field where I told you before.It was bit expensive for us,so I refuse an offer.

Now We have signed for renting this field for 2 years and good price and much bigger than before.

At first I must cut these weeds.This area is over 30a.This is big enough for me.

This is very exciting! I can get little bit of an assistant
from goverment.I will tell you about an assistant for like these field soon.Not today!!

この写真の場所を耕すことになりました。この数年誰も耕していなかった土地。いわゆる耕作放棄地。素晴らしい。前にかりようと思った土地との契約はダメになり、新たな土地に出会いました。前回は金額面で折り合わずお断りをしました。今度は、値段も嬉しい、前より広いという好条件です。
３０a（アール）以上あります。１，０００坪をちょっと下回る程度の広さです。

まずは、この草君を刈り込む必要があります。友人が手伝ってくれるというので、仮払い機で２人でせっせと時期がきたらやろうと思います。しかも、うまくいけば助成金的なものが少しもらえるかもしれません。また、そのことについては、書き込みますね！

Saipan Trip

We Visited SAIPAN.  Where is the largest Island of the united states,belonging to the marianas archipelago.It is beatiful Island I think.
The Saipan is very common for Japanese people,but not for the others especially If you are western person.If you don't know check the wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saipan


This Island has very sad history,I can't belive it. why people did the war on such a beatiful beach.Anyway We have enjoyed in summer time.
I found the coconut. I can't find the coconut with bud in Japan.It was so cute so I took the photos. We can see coconut tree in Japan but there nearly die,It is too cold for them.Someone take their seedling to Japan.That is not happy for them I guess.

 1st photo is the bud of coconut, and 2nd one is the  baby , junior high school  and an adult. It was interseting for me.　The 3rd one is me.  I was so relaxed.Acctually I am relaxing anytime!!
 
サイパンに行ってきました。日本では有名なところですが、他の国ではそうでもないようです。
　　　　　　　　　　　
ココナッツの芽が道の端っこに出ていたので、
可愛くて写真をとりました。

日本では、寒くて自生できないようですが、ここは南国、さすがです。（沖縄以外。。。）

左の写真は、ココナッツの兄弟というか親子のようなものがあったので、取りました。

赤ちゃん、中学生、成人といった具合でしょうか。

３つ目は、僕の写真です。リラックス！！！

continue How to make NISHIKITAMAGO

Put the yolk and the white into the container sparetely and put a lot of suger for the yolk parts.

setiing to the steamer!!!!

Just wait........

Finally you can eat NISHIKI-TAMAGO.We eat Osechi for New year.This is our culture but I don't like osechi taste......But look very Japanese this is very intereseting.

Traditional Osechi cooking

A Happy new year everybody for all over the world!!
We call this year for rabbit year in Japan.I was born in Rabbit year 36 years ago.
So,This year is very special for me.

I haven't write this blog for a months.Sorry for that.I had a motorbike accident   in the end of November 2010.

So I didn't feel like doing my blog.Now I am fine,but my bike still in Hospital......... I hope He will back soon.

Anyway this is one of OSECHI cooking.It called NISHIKITAMAGO.It means two color of egg.I can't write KANJI in this blog,so this is hard to explain.If you write NISHIKITAMAGO in Kanji it means very beautiful. This is very traditional food in New year.I will put a few photos how to make Nishiki-TAMAGO.Please look at it.
Make boiled egg and separate the yolk and the white,then strain both of them.

Regenerating Agristyle by Mr.Akamine's lecture meeting.

 I went to Mr.Akamine's lecture meeting.He build up circulated(regenerating)Agriculture style.Let's describe one vegegarden.If you don't use any chemicals(include chemical fertilizer),it gonig to be many weeds and many worms.When the weeds wither,the worms eats weeds and and microbe eats worms excrements.Finaly it will be back to perfect soil,then vegetables will grow up by soils nutrition,then human eats these vegetables and people make excrements.This is circulated or generated.I don't know which word is correct in this case.Many Japanese old farmer still believe they need cemicals and they think weeds and insects are enemy of the vegegarden.so they use a lot of chemicals killed their soil by themself.What gonna happen to their garden is... The vegetables will never grow up by soils nutrition.So they have to use a lot of chemical fertilizer.and When they use chemical fertilizer,so many insects around that garden.Because the smell is ammmonia.The insects will gather around the ammnonia.The farmaer thinking the insects are enemy so they will spray alot of chemicals  again to kill them and even they killed their soil again.Guess what will farmer do next???Yes, ofcourse they will use more chemicals fertilizer.The farmaer have to pay a lot of money to buy chemicas for kill their soils!! What a clever people they are.They helped chemical company and agriculutural cooperateve assosciation but they lose their money and even their garden and their health.This is the fact of Japanese agriculture since world war 2.This story is simple but many people never find out.That is shame.Mr.Akamine is doing many lecture meeting to save our planet.I agree with his thoughts.I talked to him that night with good SHOUCHU (kind of sake) and I asked to him Can I translate your thoughts on my blog? He said Why not??? I will translate his books sometime on my blog, not all of them but I will write important parts of it. Please make your owe vegetables with out any chemicals.

Super Size me !

I saw the Movie that called SUPER SIZE ME .This movie is a Documentary,the guy eats only MacDonald's meal for 30days. This experiment is What will happen when people eats only fast food.This is very interesting and scared.If you have enough time to watch DVD you should watch it(If you don't mind you can watch it by PC,click the picture).Especially If you eat fast food very often and If you give fast food for your children!!!

ファーストフードを1ヶ月食べ続けた人の作品です。ファーストフードを食べる前に良く考えましょうね！！