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The FallSeptember 30th, 2025On the farm, the beginning of fall sets in like a new rhythm. All summer we climbed up into tree after tree, snipping off excess kaki that fell like a light rain. Now, with our baskets slung over our shoulders...

September 18th, 2025 There is a book that I've never read but know about from high school called "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance." (Have any of you ever read it?) This morning I was wrestling with the big grass-mower that we u...

September 1st, 2025 Kogura-san has a few farms of his own, but he also rents out land that belongs to other people to work.  This farm belongs to a nice old lady, Morita-san. We've come here a few times to work on her kaki trees. Th...

Hello!I don't have any pictures from work today, so I'll try to make everything brief and straightforward. It's Thursday, August 28th today. That means we're getting close to harvest time for kaki, and that we also have some new work to ...

Hello, readers!In today's diary entry, we've gone to a different farm from last week, when we were at the upper kaki farm. To be specific, we went down the hill from it.Let me give you the lay of the land: The farm with this mark (上 ue)...

August 21st, 2025. The high today during our working hours is 90 degrees Fahrenheit (about 32 Celcius). As of my writing this, we haven't had any more than a short rain for several weeks. In the morning, Kogura-san mentioned how tough th...

Today we returned to the hilltop kaki grove to try to finish checking our mistakes, to pick persimmons that didn't grow well, and to work on an interesting project. I spent most of the morning hunting down any places where we left more t...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e9jMtayHQM For me, one of the best things about working on the farm is enjoying the nature we work in. Today, I worked with Shiromoto-chan and Kogura-san at the kaki grove on the hill above Kogura-san's f...

On Margate Sands　by Listening Devices Cool and nice music. You can download the music HERE😉↑

We had a rainy morning here in Kinokawa. We don't go out to the farms to work when it rains, so instead the three of us spent the morning on, for lack of a better word, crafts. https://youtu.be/RkntSOgIDHA Today's craft project We're mak...