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 :)

Autumn sky

I love the autumn sky. It's soooo beautiful everyday:)

T shirt design

I helped Kuzuhara-san make Sado tshirts and designed one (the one on the lower left corner) myself.
hopefully they will sell at festivals?

A few more pics from my garden

Amaranths flowers
beans twining around the sorghum
newly developing sorghum roots= amazing!

Today's harvest

Okra, carrots, daikon radish, cherry tomatoes, egg plants, japanese basil, kabocha squash, straw berry tomatoes= delicious!

Garden update2

As of August 30.

The plants in the once abandoned rice paddy are doing great. The fact that it hadn't been used for farming for decades must be one of the reasons.
I'm growing sorghum, okra, tomatoes, red stem, Japanese basil, amaranths, beans, corn, radishes, etc. Sorghum plants are about 2 meters=6.5 feet high, much taller than me now and the ears have formed. The sesame seed plants are about 1meter high and the seeds are maturing in the pods.

Pictures: sorghum plants and sesame seed plants with flowers