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September 1st, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogura-san has a few farms of his own, but he also rents out land that belongs to other people to work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This farm belongs to a nice old lady, Morita-san. We’ve come here a few times to work on her kaki<\/em> trees. This diary, I want to share express my appreciation for her!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whenever we come here, Morita-san lets us take breaks in a little garage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It might just be a regular garage, but it’s really nice for us farmers to get to rest indoors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is “Robot-kun<\/em>.” I always wonder who drew him, and how long ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On top of letting us take breaks in her garage, the farm owner always brings out snacks for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I really like the snack in those orange bags, which is called kakinotane<\/em>. There are peanuts and peas (I don’t know) in it, and everything is coated with Japanese spices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Morita-san also brought each of us some homemade ume<\/em> juice and ice cream. Needless to say, it makes me truly happy how nice she is!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ume juice for three<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As nice as the breaks here are, they aren’t the only thing that we do all day!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today’s main activity was applying ethanol-filled bags to the fruit around the farm. It was my first time actually getting to do this, so let me walk all of you through the points Kogura-san taught me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First comes opening up these bags.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’m doing it one-handed for the photo, but you want to use both hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These ethanol cubes have to stay cold, so we take about 30-40 out of the cooler at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After you put the cube in the bag, all you have left to do is wrap it around the fruit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Kogura-san explained, the best way to do that is by starting from the far end of the fruit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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start like this<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Let the rubber band gently pull the bag around the fruit<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Voila!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finally, we want to check that the bag isn’t covering up the leaves. That would choke the plant’s air supply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s good to go!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you for reading! Have a great day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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