Here is this week's lunch menu: 🧑🌾
Weekly change
Salad vegetables (kale, kale stems, fresh onions, kuroda carrots, trevis, soybeans)
Fried corn
Sweet Potato Gratin
Peperoncino with fresh onion and baby sardines
Curry with young corn and fresh onion
Chinese Soup with Sweet Corn and Onion
Daily special
Tue Ratatouille with seasonal vegetables
water sauteed spring cabbage and shimeji mushrooms with garlic
Thu Naruhira green beans with sesame paste
Fri Young corn with mentaiko butter
Sat. fried new potatoes with pepper mayo
Sun Fried chrysanthemum with ranch sauce
Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
the "no pesticides" rule
Our farm grows over 150 varieties of vegetables annually without pesticides and chemical fertilizers.
Because it is safer? That is not actually the reason.
Ten years ago, when I decided to start growing my own vegetables as an amateur farmer, I thought long and hard about what kind of farming I would do.
When I asked myself this question, the thing that remained with me the most was that I wanted to produce vegetables that I could truly feel "delicious" when I ate them. That is the kind of vegetables I want to grow.
There are many factors that contribute to the overall concept of "good taste," but in the case of vegetables, the answer is "growing healthy vegetables. Vegetables are living things.
So do vegetables grow healthier without pesticides? Unfortunately, that is not the case (not unfortunately).
I think we can produce healthier vegetables by using the latest technology, not just chemical pesticides and fertilizers.
However, I was concerned that if I were to start using pesticides and chemical fertilizers from the beginning, I might become complacent and skip essential learning.
By daring to place oneself in the midst of difficult obstacles, one must "become stronger" as a person and as a farmer. I thought that this would ultimately lead to the results of the work I was seeking, namely, the production of healthy vegetables.
As a result, some vegetables are wiped out every year due to disease or insect damage, causing trouble for customers and store members. Every time this happens, I am painfully aware of my own lack of study and inexperience, but I am a weak person who cannot climb up the stairs without going through such a path, and it is because I know my weakness that I need to be firm with myself.
Freedom is constraint itself.
The weather has been rainy again this week, which makes us anxious, but we are taking one thing at a time in front of us.
Also, young corn and corn is the first thing to go this week! 🌽
