Nagano: A New Japanese Blue Zone
If you ask people in Japan about the longest-lived prefecture, most people say it is Nagano, not Okinawa.
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Natural Gardening: Shizenha Bio-Hacking
Today, I would like to share with you another Shizenha bio-hacking method, natural gardening. Natural Gardening is based on Natural Farming, but it is just gardening, not farming. You grow vegetables naturally in your small garden. Because it isn’t farming, you can be more playful with it, and try Masanobu Fukuoka’s method of letting vegetables grow wildly.
British Farming vs. Japanese Farming
I watched Clarkson’s Farm on Amazon prime the other day, and was very surprised to see how British farming was different from Japanese farming.
Taue, Rice Planting, at Terraced Rice Fields in Satoyama
On Saturday, I helped a friend plant rice at terraced rice fields near my house.
We Started a Sunday Organic Morning Market
The Local Network Hino began a Sunday organic morning market last week, and we had the second market yesterday.
Planting Seeds in the Spring
On Sunday, I planted some seeds before it started raining. It began raining about one hour after I finished planting. It was perfect timing.
The Ikigai Diet Channel Was Introduced on the Website of the Apricot Centre in the U.K.
It was almost two years when I gave a talk and workshop at the Apricot Centre and they featured me again on their website, introducing my current activity, as well.
I Made Fermented Brown Rice with Local Organic Black Beans
You can make fermented brown rice with black beans, too, but usually, they are a little too big, but I found black beans just the right size for fermented brown rice.
Setting Up an Organic School Lunch Promotion Committee
We set up an organic school lunch promotion committee today.
A Meeting with the Board of Education on Organic School Lunch
As the Local Network Hino, we had a meeting with the board of education in our town today. We talked about the possibility of organic school lunch.