We strive to live a mostly self-sufficient lifestyle. We grow our own food, especially lots of long-lasting rice, potatoes, and beans. In winter we heat our home and cook our food with a rocket stove. We avoid using petroleum energy products and gather firewood instead.

We are a small farm, but we are unique in that you can experience the full progression from raising produce and processing to sales. Our own rice is ground into flour and we use it to make bread and other baked goods. We flavor our sweets with our own produce as well as honey from our own beehives. These flavors include wildflower honey of the Japanese bee, outdoor-cultivated passion fruit, and black sesame. We also make the hard-to-find 100% rice flour bread. We often sell our goods at events and in temporary food stalls. We deeply appreciate our customers and strive to delivery excellent products and services. From these face-to-face interactions, we hope to increase our customer base.

We strive to grow all of our produce (except for cucumbers) without pesticides, herbicide, or chemical fertilizers. We are also employing a new farming method known as the Pyrrole Agriculture Method to increase naturally occurring bacteria and microbes that are beneficial to plants. Since we don’t use herbicide in the rice fields, it is necessary to remove weeds. If weeds are not removed, then the rice stalks and our other plants will not fully grow and output will drop. We also keep Japanese honey bees. You can learn how to build a beehive box, how to attract bees to it, and how to maintain and manage the beehive box and colony. Finally, we grow soy beans and make our own miso (a fermented soybean paste essential to Japanese cuisine).

There is a village called Nozawa-onsen nearby. It is very famous for hot springs. After working, we can go enjoy the baths. There are not only hot springs, but restaurants and hot spring culture to enjoy as well.