Japanese tofu

 I want to get people all over the world  interested in tofu, especially Japanese  nigari tofu. So I write this blog. Blog is ephemeral. Here is the point. If you really want to know the nigari tofu, you had better come to Japan and eat our tofu. You surely understand the words what I  am saying in this blog.

 Today  windchill made me feel much colder on the farm.  It is getting colder day by day here in Japan. But it is far from "chilly "felt recently in England my love.Temperatures has never fallen much bellow  5C here in Kanto area.

 I feel immensely privileged to own my farm and grow  experimently many kinds of soybeans not only Japanese one but many from China to Europe. There exists many in Europe, you know.

out of middle age crisis, one way.

 It remains only two weeks by the end of this year. There are a lot of soybeans to be cut down on the farm. I am in a  ultra-busy condition.
 I can only make two or three hours a day for the work.I works on the farm listening to many things through Sony's  cassette Walkman .It'a a very enjoyable time for me aged 56 in the midddle age crisis. I have about  3000-4000 cassete tapes. Almost all of them are live recordings from FM radio in 7o's to 90's. I cannot listen to them intensively otherwise beeing not on the farm. There are many lessons to be learned from the tapes.
 I am 100 % certain that there are great treasures in these times working on the soybeans farm.
 Though I am  in a  bit depression, I can  feel a optimistic feeling for a while.

Local committee of agriculture

 In Japan each city has a committee of agriculture. Today  I  joined it to express my wish to borrow a land for widening  my soybeans　cultivation next year.  This is because  the adjoining farmers of my now farming land are expressing their discomfort for my way of  farming. I use no agro-chemicals. Many grasses, many insects, they say. But I don't think it is. The criterion gap!
 The people coming to the committee are all but me  advised to let their grass rampanted to be killed.  I only came to express positive attitude to widen my farming area instead of now using land.

 There will be  many difficulties in Japanese agriculture in the coming free trade trend.
 But there certainly is a possibility of  sustainability of quality agriculture .Not cheap and mass production method.I am not a  full-time farmer. I am a tofu-maker. I can only use 3-5 hours a day for my soybeans farm if it does not rain.
 Soybeans farming back up me  not only phisically  but mentally.

 Government's export-oriented policy of  manufacturing industries  has long precluded sustainability of Japanese agriculture. Our agriculture is overall  very small-scale type.

My hope in my farm

 My project is not that big but it still has a long way to go.
 My memory is also a little weakening  and my logical reasoning is waning. This is a n ordinary phenomenon of my middle aged people?
 The farming without agri chemicals and man-made organic fertilizer  is the pinacle of experimental and intellectual achievement.Natural agriculture, not mere organic agriculture.
Very difficult but interesting.
Many crops for two or three years. But after that we can get very little or none up until seven or eight years later. In this interval and after that we need great intellects.
 Things don't go as we wish. It is more complicated  than  easily thought.  When the land get the natural cycle,we will find it tobe rather sublime.

 When in difficulty with no crop we should try to be positive and forward looking. We can turn the land into this way of farming gradually not at once.