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有機ミントチョコレートストロベリー豆腐チーズケーキ

新しいメニュー. 私たちのオーガニック畑からミントとイチゴ,フェアトレードチョコレート,とチーズの代わりに豆腐を使用する！非常に健全なおいしいオリジナルケーキ！

コンパニオン植物。私たちのサラダレタスとニンジン再び一緒に！

コンパニオン植栽、有機米、小麦と大豆

今年我々は最初の田んぼを植え! 2時間で125 坪を植えた。 11月に米の200キロ収穫できます. 無農薬と野生のカモは私たちのフィールドを愛して! また、小麦と大豆を植え, 豆は、窒素を作る,余分な肥料. これはコンパニオン植栽さ

すぐに私達の果実が熟しされます！

今年の春は寒かった,しかし、私達の果実は非常に素晴らしい成長している。今年、私たちの手作りのパイやケーキは素晴らしいになる！ 早く来て! は私はそれらをすべて自分が食べるようになる。

ソーラーカフェのキッチンガーデン、おいしい結果….

ツリーハウス

販売のためのバジルとラズベリー

ワイルドストロベリーと野生の犬

うちの犬は除草に役立ちます。 これらのイチゴは野生と自然農法です。

有機マルチ

我々は独自のマルチを作る。我々は、葉や草を使用します。マルチは、土壌を保護します。停止の雑草。と肥料になります。

2010年夏スタッフ！

ロバートマー ティンは大学で植物科学の学生です.  SUNY Cobelskill in NY.  彼は私たち農場 で3ヶ月のインターンシップを行っている。正太田は、ローカル山梨の少年で す。彼の家族は近くの牛の牧場があります。この写真では、彼らはジャガイモを植えている。ようこそみんな、と感謝を、すべてのハードワークのための！

The bears are doing fine!!!

With all the doom and gloom we hear in the news about CO2, climate change, resource depletion, etc etc, it is easy to think we are at the end of nature.  But once in awhile a small sign reminds us that nature is still doing ok and may come out the other side of this mess ok.

Bears were hunted nearly to extinction in Japan and still remain a rare sight.  But even when you dont see them, they may be watching you.  This claw mark was in a tree about 200m above one our cabins at Lake Saiko.    Glad the bears are still there, but hoping they do see me first, and give me a wide berth.

Mint Tea Packaging Crew

The wonderful people at Oguri Noen in Shizuoka are processing our mint and packing it into tea bags.  The tea farm was started by Mr. Oguri’s father nearly 40years ago and has expanded to become the main packaging operation for all the local green tea farms.  Their high-tech clean room facility and extreme attention to detail ensure the utmost care is given to cleanly and safely packaging our tea.

We also will be working with their blending master this year to develop a few new flavors for our line of Mt Fuji Natural Teas.  Check back with us in the summer for new tastes and herbal medicinal teas!!!

Rueben

Our dearest and oldest friend, Rueben the sheep, passed away on Nov 29th, 2009.

He was one of the original founders of the  Earth Embassy way back in 2000 and saw it through the good times and the bad.  Rueben appeared on Japanese TV numerous times, starting with a cameo on MTV and eventually having his own 30minute New Years Special that was seen by 6 million viewers.  None of it went to his head and remained humble and sweet all of his long years.

Rueben made friends from around the world, and always ran over to greet new visitors. He was happy in his field with his girl Eva until his last day and died peacefully in his sleep.   He will be dearly missed.

Farm life with wild roses….

What can I say.  Some days you pick roses, and some days they pick you….

I was checking out a new piece of land next to our mint field, thinking of cutting back the wild brush and planting in the spring.  But the wild roses growing there seem not to want to go without a fight.  If we do plant it, I think we will leave those rose bushes for the birds to feed on and content ourselves with a few rose hips in fall.

virutal farming is BIG!!! ….Farmville

For those of you using Facebook, I suggest you check out the Farmville game. It is simple but addicting, plow your fields, plant some crops, harvest, sell and make money to buy more seeds, cheap pink flamingos, etc.  The coolest feature for me is that you can visit friend’s farms and see what they are planting.  It gives you a big insight into their character.  Alex who is currently out of work (in real life) has planted cash crops from egde to edge. Yoko has 2 boys (in real life) and lots of playthings spread around the farm.  Janel likes to win (in real life) and her farm is huge with an enormous plantation house in the middle.  Mine is permaculture based of course….

Yes, its just another game, but we have actually had visitor come to our farm on Mt Fuji all the way from Singapore because their son had gotten interested in farming through playing Farmville!  The huge popularity of this game is evidence that we humans are all farmers at heart.  The numbers as of Dec, 2009…. “69 million active users are using FarmVille alone, that’s more users than Twitter.”

I think this is a trend we shouldnt ignore. What if we set up a bunch of real mini farms with web-cams attached for people to plant their own crops and be able to watch them grow for real online?  We could build the farms next to the orphanages we support in Africa and the Philippines and have the kids maintain the crops!  If we got 1/10th of 1% of the Farmville  players to pay $10 to rent a lot and plant their own seeds, that’s $69,000 to start a little farm somewhere.  Then again that is 6900 webcams we need to set-up…..

Any ideas?  Let me know if anyone wants to talk about starting something….jreiner@earthembassy.org

Chestnut Harvest

The wild chestnut trees were just babies sprung from seeds carried by the crows when we first started farming the land on the edge of Aokigahara Forest. Now 15 feet tall they provided us with a months worth of chestnut cake, chestnut rice, and of course roasting on an open fire. And those are just the ones that the deer left for us.

Fall Colors

Our fields are fading to brown and we are picking the last eggplants and tomatoes of the season from our greenhouse. Even though the nights are going below freezing, our greenhouse still gets up to 30degrees C during the day and this is the latest into winter we have ever been still eating fresh food. We also harvesting lots of organic seeds for next springs planting. Out in the fields the broccoli, cabbage, parsley and carrots are still holding on. They arent getting any bigger, but a little walk everyday at sunset to harvest a big pot for dinner is saving us that trip to town and shopping.

Fresh Shitake Mushroom Farming!!!

We first tried spawning our own mushrooms last year but didnt have much luck.  This spring we tried a few oak logs with spores but again only 2 or 3 shrooms popped out in the season.  Until last week! This late in the fall we werent expecting anything, we one morning Eli was going to feed the sheep and noticed a whole mini forest of Shitake had sprung up over night.  Our new Shitake Carmelized Onion pizza is to die for! Supplies limited, and you had better beat Jake to the kitchen or they will be all gone…

Cosmic Purple Carrots!!!

This has been our best year ever on the farm.  Even into November when nights are frosty and Fuji is covered with fresh snow every morning, we are still eating from the gardens.  I cant describe the taste of real carrot if all you have ever eaten in those things they sell in the supermarket and call “carrots”.  You have to try it yourself to understand.  Its like you were eating plain white bread your whole life and then someone gave you a sandwich. The cosmic purple carrots are so good if you eat one, you will just want a plate of carrots for dinner and nothing else.

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