My friend Emi, Yuuki and I visited Emi's brother and his wife who have own rice fields,vegetable fields and hand-built house in Yamanashi.
They have 3 rice fields and several vegetable fields, named ''SORAMUGI farm'' (SORA=Sky MUGI=wheat)
Soon we arrive, we start helping weeding in a rice field.
They got a new family,very pretty newborn son last year. so now, mostly the father works for the fields. As we were helping him, He said happily '' a human power is not really be twice, it is two-and-a-half times more'' .
It's easy to use chemical herbicides, but they are trying to glow everything organically. However they told they understand the people use chemicals for the field, because it is really hard to do for older people.
Start the whole thing why they started this self-sufficient life style in Yamanashi was his wife first got a sick badly and tried to recover from the bottom causes such as food and living ware etc...
They used to work for a Japanese cosmetic company, but they decided changing their life. so they quited the job and both went to an architecture course in a vocational training school. So that they built their house by themselves... I impressed what they've done as I saw it. It was amazing job....It's a little house, but there are warmth of tree every where... It's like my dream house.... but they said to me strongly and very warmly ''Anyone can build this, all the things we human have made, nothing impossible...''
Working at the rice field only couple hours, my back starts hurting ... I thought how old people worked so hard, they had no pesticide and all the machinery we have now. And also ofcause people were like this couple in front of me who are growing things 100% organic...
Now, I feel those fresh and healthy vegetables are far removed from all the shiny vegetables and fruits in a supermarket. It's really important knowing the fact what we are eating and how things grow...
Through this meeting and experiences at their field, I again realized how treasure rice and all the food we are given. I am eternally gratitude. It's all gift from the land, Mother Earth, Lives...
Since I came back to the city in Japan, I was almost losing something I learned in the nature of Canada and the beauty of the Japanese nature... ''Earth is not ours, We are just a part of the Earth.'' Living with gratitude for Nature. SORAMUGI farm reminds me that again. I'd love to visit them again and keep remind myself this feeling... Thank SORAMUGI !
