{"id":6357,"date":"2016-08-22T16:29:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T14:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=6357"},"modified":"2023-04-05T19:27:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T17:27:56","slug":"trip-to-the-japanese-mountains-in-april-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=6357","title":{"rendered":"Trip to the Japanese mountains in April 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Each day on the trip to Japan had been equally amazing as the day before with new plant and food discoveries all the way!!\u00a0The venue for my talk in Tokyo was the art\/photography studio belonging to a guy called Ken Takewaki. It turned out he’d spent a lot of time in the UK working on organic farms and knew the owner of Poyntzfield Nursery in Scotland well\u00a0and\u00a0I’d already planned to try to visit Poyntzfield on my Scotland trip in September! Knowing that I was heading for the mountains after Tokyo, Ken kindly invited me to visit his mountain home! What a place and the food was out of this world! Ken and his lady Masami had made a special effort to feed me sansai!<\/p>\n

The next morning it was as if I’d been transported home in my dreams as there was new snow on the ground at the Ken’s home at 1300m. The day before it has been over 20C at 600m! Thanks so much to Tei, who I got to know through Caroline Ho Bich-Tuyen Dang, a member of Norwegian Seed Savers, for showing me so much of her village near Besshou (Ueda) in Nagano Prefecture and sharing all the amazing sansai and sake and for taking me to Ken’s place! More on Besshou later when I get time!Thank you so much too Ken and Masami for your hospitality!<\/p>\n

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