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Nagano, naturally.
Home grown fresh produce produced without chemicals so you get all the goodness and none of the nasties.
The wheat is looking good! And by doing that I mean doing well and also quite aesthetically pleasing.
It’s been weirdly warm this year. We got into the mid-teens in February! We still have some more minus temps ahead and a possibility of snow this week which is worrying for the apple and plum blossoms as they’re not frost hardy if they’ve already started to swell. Fingers crossed. After a winter of eating storage veg and hakusai though I was excited to see the first nanohana spring greens coming through. Looking forward to celebrating spring soon!
I’m not a sciency type person. I respect scientists and think they’re incredible and read and follow their recommendations but I just don’t understand a lot of it. ![]()
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It seems to me most of the whys and hows of growing fruit and vegetables are a combination of magic, miracles, and luck. ![]()
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Wheat is high up on the list of things I don’t understand. We grow winter wheat here as do all the wheat farmers I’ve ever seen in Nagano. That means we play seed in late autumn. It’s so small and fragile looking when it gets first frost. Often just a single leaf striving to reach up tall. Even by the time it snows it’s just a couple of leaves and less than 10cm tall. ![]()
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And yet, while so many much bigger plants aren’t cold hardy and die off over winter the wheat just keeps on keeping on and when the snow melts there it is! ![]()
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I’m sure there’s a scientific explanation but you have to admit it has a touch of magic to it.
Blue sky snow days I love looking up and seeing the beauty. ![]()
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It’s a nice break from looking down and shoveling. 😂 ![]()
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Out here keeping it real.
Winter harvest. I used to harvest and store my hakusai but I realised that they’re just as good in the field and picked when needed to use. They freeze but only the outer leaves and those go to the chooks who don’t mind.