harvesting, drying and husking the sorghum, sesame seeds and perilla that i grew
collecting Tsubaki, or Camellia japonica seeds in order to extract oil from them
they are tiny so i need so much of them. i go collect them right after i get up in the morning. people in japan used to use the oil as an antirust.
making a natural antiseptic/ waterproof/ dye out of green persimmons
eating persimmons and fresh figs off the trees
training for triathlons and stretching
taking enemas
i think thats pretty much it
Saturday, October 18, 2008
rice harvest
so i harvested my rice with a bunch of friends' help at the end of September. we did it all by hand. we hang the rice to dry, husked it and hulled it after the harvest.
the yield was 150kg, or 330pounds, which is less than half the amount of conventional farming. weeds sort of took away a lot of nutrients the rice wanted, despite all the effort my dad and i put into to weed the rice paddy...
i didnt know how labor intensive organic&old style rice farming was, or how cheap rice is being sold in the market, no matter how the rice is produced. i dont know how much exactly would be reasonable/fair as a price of rice but i think the current price of rice is way too cheap. it is the same as that of 30 years ago! while all the other stuff price has gone up. how do you expect farmers to make a living with rice, and other veggies so cheap?
i dont know.
anyway im glad that i got to provide the rice i grew to my family at least for the year.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
how lucky
i went see Agnes Chan, a Hong Kong born singer and a UNICEF ambassador speak tonight.
She talked about what she saw/did whille working to help sick, poor people in developing countries like Iraq, Thailand, and Africa, and how that helped change her view of life.
The lecture made me realize how lucky I am, to have a safe, clean place to sleep, food to eat, a healthy body, a great family and friends who care about me...
I think it's my responsibility to appreciate all this and be happy& thankful each day.
It's wrong for such a lucky person to complain about her life or to feel shitty about it.
She talked about what she saw/did whille working to help sick, poor people in developing countries like Iraq, Thailand, and Africa, and how that helped change her view of life.
The lecture made me realize how lucky I am, to have a safe, clean place to sleep, food to eat, a healthy body, a great family and friends who care about me...
I think it's my responsibility to appreciate all this and be happy& thankful each day.
It's wrong for such a lucky person to complain about her life or to feel shitty about it.
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Nuts nuts and nuts
Whole, wild, local, organic walnutsクルミ, chestnutsクリ and buckeye nuts栃の実 are in season right now! they are 0 yen a pound :) Nobody seems to bother though, except for my dad and I, at least around here... What a strange world.
Pictures: buckeye nuts and walnuts (in the shell), my dad pealing buckeyes (he knows how to make them edible), halved walnuts. yummy :)
Alternative medicine making
Amanosan and I made medicine out of red pine needles. It's gonna ferment in the next 2 weeks or something and will be ready to drink. All we put in were pine needles, well water and beets sugar. Pine trees are everywhere around my dad's cabin so it's pretty much free to make. I'm excited to drink it and see how it works on my body :)
T shirt design
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