{"id":8626,"date":"2016-11-23T15:45:54","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T14:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=8626"},"modified":"2016-11-23T15:49:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T14:49:24","slug":"kens-field-and-nature-reserve-in-sugadaira-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=8626","title":{"rendered":"Ken’s field and nature reserve in Sugadaira, Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

In early April 2016, on my study tour to Japan, I was invited to the mountain home of Ken Takewaki\u00a0(and Masama) for a short visit. I wrote about Ken’s home and the shock of waking to new snow after 20C the day before in the lowlands back in April (see http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=6357<\/a>)! Despite the snow, Ken took us on a trip around the local area (Sugadaira in Nagano) and we had a walk around a local wetland nature reserve, before Ken took us on a long walk up through the forest where he had recently taken over a piece of land in a clearing to grow vegetables. \u00a0All the signs were in Japanese, so I don’t know the names of many of the plants we saw, but here’s the pictures:<\/p>\n