Here is this week's lunch menu... ♪

Weekly change
Salad vegetables (kale, kale stems, kuroda gosun carrots, cucumbers, marinated beets, soybeans)
Tartar chicken with onions
Andes Red with Mentaiko Mayo Potato
Cold Neapolitan
Tomato Curry with Summer Vegetables
Cold soup of cucumber
Daily special
Tue Red Haruka no Natsudai (sweetened and simmered red haruka)
water eggplant
kinpira (fried carrot and wakame seaweed)
Gold eggplant hikozuri
grilled eggplant
Fried Chinese cabbage and egg with oyster sauce

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Protect, not

Eggplant is doing well!
We grow five main types of eggplant in our fields.

Yamashina eggplants have soft skin and are not suitable for transportation, but the taste is excellent.
Senshu silk-skinned mizu-aubergine is irresistible when eaten raw with its dripping water content.
New Nagasaki-cho eggplant is the best for grilled eggplant.
Jade eggplant melts when cooked in oil and Melanzana Violetta Di Toscana originates from Italy.

All are fixed eggplants.
Each has its own unique flavor, as well as its own unique cultivation characteristics, so it is not a simple matter.
Everyone is uniformly asking, "Productivity? What does that mean? They all have a look on their faces that says, "What does productivity mean?
These eggplants are self-seeded, but you can still buy seeds now.
But I wonder how long these varieties of seeds will remain in circulation, and the fact that they could disappear at any time becomes even more pressing as I grow them.

Fixed and native vegetables come with a context of "protection".
However, I don't really feel comfortable with this "protection.
Vegetables are not natural.
Originally, wild plants were selected and improved by humans for human convenience.
Therefore, vegetables cannot live without humans. It is vegetables that were born and live with humans and their tastes and culture.
So, in the 21st century, even if some vegetables are shaken off from the major flow of logistics, retailing, capitalism, and technology as they evolve and permeate, it is structurally no different from the process that gave birth to them.
Yet "protecting" them seems like a contradictory act that goes against the flow.
Furthermore, there are probably few examples in history of successful movements to "protect" something.

When I eat eggplants grown in my garden, I honestly think, "Oh, they are so good.
When I work on the eggplant, I think, "What a difficult eggplant to make! I also think, "What a difficult eggplant to make!
We then imagine (fantasize) the thoughts of the people who once selected and fixed them.
Of course, the true meaning is not beyond the realm of the imagination, but I am tempted to lay out my future as a farmer and as a person.

It is not simply about protecting the variety as a genetic resource,
We want to create a place where the thoughts of the people who have cultivated such things are still needed, and will continue to be needed in the future. That is why we have created a restaurant, where we not only serve good eggplant, but also explain with our own mouths that this is the kind of eggplant we are growing.
It is not limited to eggplants, but if we can continue to create a place where they are needed, perhaps the meaning of life for these disappearing vegetables will be born.

Whether this is just a fait accompli or not remains to be seen,
I am going to the store in the field today, determined to cut down on my life to answer that question.

I hope you will all pass over such small and difficult matters from right to left,
We hope you will enjoy a full meal of just good eggplant.
Because it is delicious right now!

We look forward to working with you this week!