#wwoofjapan

[charlybaranger-blog]

July 19th : weeding carrots everyday with fly's bites... • • #weeding #carrot #flybites #mountains #hokkaido #slowlife #japan #wwoofjapan #travelbook #dailysketch #sketch #moleskine #blackandwhite #carnetdevoyage #croquis #insitu #comicstyle #slowtravel #voyagelent #countrysidesketcher #croqueurdecampagne #lauraandcharly

[tooruhyung]

So crabs like catfood and Iejima is rainbow island, the sunrise hues over the horses (it's only my second day with them but I already love them so much) photogenic cat #1 called Hana, me and Evita, the stuff the ocean washes out on the beach and Skip the doggo who is super enthusiastic to walk around in 38 degrees with me.

[plantroomhk]

Sweet corns are growing faster and faster everyday! 🌽They can be harvested in coming September. This farm is one of the best corn producer in Hokkaido! #wwoof #wwoofjapan #farm #food #weekendfarmer #organic #green #greenday #harvest #farmtotable #fresh #startoftheday #agriculture #goodfood #corn #sweetcorn #plants #hokkaido #当麻 (at 当麻)

[remisasaki]

下田ピーポーに有名なノリちゃん She is well know for local people in Shimoda, Shizuoka, Japan #catstagram #ネコ #下田 #ネコのいる生活 #移住計画 #地域おこし協力隊 #japantravel #tripjapan #explorejapan #backpacker #backpackerjapan #wwoofjapan #wwoof #トレッキングシューズ #女子旅 #ママカメラ部 #ママコーデ #女子ひとり旅 #catsofworld #catlovers #catlove #catsgram (マックスバリュエクスプレス下田銀座店)

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[atreoid]

I’m considering doing one year of WWOOFing in Japan. Does anyone have any experience they’d like to tell me about?

[aaakssm-blog]

Living 'organically' in Kisarazu for 7 days was an unique experience. Will repeat it if I got chances. #wwoof #wwoofjapan #vscocam #vsco (at Kizarasu)

[charlybaranger-blog]

July 10th : new wwoofing place, "ui farm"... • • #farming #carott #uifarm #bethechange #watercolor #hokkaido #shintoku #soba #japan #wwoofjapan #travelbook #dailysketch #sketch #moleskine #blackandwhite #carnetdevoyage #croquis #insitu #comicstyle #slowtravel #voyagelent #countrysidesketcher #croqueurdecampagne #lauraandcharly

[tooruhyung]

Even a workday is a funday!

Note: this is about the 4th time i start to write this because Tumblr kept fucking me over.... so please appreciate my dedication to delivering. So yesterday started off really well, probably because i was very energized after my free day. But by 6.55 we were done with feeding and cleaning the horses so i felt very accomplished. Any day i am already done with stuff by 7 am is a good day! So after breakfast we headed back to the ranch around 9 but popped in the school to hand Asuka her sportswear because she forgot it at home. However it turns out it was open day. So the parents could visit classes. And yes, Makiko-san asked if i can go and see it too. So yeah, I observed Japanese junior high life up close. First there was the first-years (Asuka is in first year too) doing a speech and the second-years and the parents being the audience. They were really good and cute tbh. It was about a mountain and how the god of the mountain made sure it lives well. After the speech the sensei asked Makiko-san’s feedback and she complimented everyone. Then a shocking thing happened. The sensei asked me to introduce myself and give my opinion. In front of about 45 kids, 5 teachers and a few parents. In Japanese. This was the biggest audience i had to do jikoshokai to ever and it made me embarrassed as heck. But I managed and I complimented the kids and they looked very happy cute and pleased. I truly felt like an extraterrestrial specimen in the school tho. Like the kids were VERY interested in the long legged blond new person who was just wandering around their school. Kids were practically hanging out from classrooms to see me and i heard a kid say 'sugee' (basically cool) seeing me. And a random very cute lil boy just came up to me to say hi. It was hella adorable. But it also made me very very self conscious. A very weird but cute experience. I could check out the whole school which was very cool! The science room, library, classrooms and the nursery too. I love how this is something most tourists can't do yet i was able to. Then we went to see Asuka-chan's sports class. It was really fun the kids were enjoying it a lot. And so was I. I mean hearing a 'Hinata ikeeee!!' irl was to live for (all those haikyuu feels, I admit to be a weeb) I totally enjoyed visiting the school, overall it was less organized and strict than what I imagined, but in a good way! I still kind of wish I could be a japanese school girl... Anyways after that we went to tend to the horses and then lunch and at 2 back to the horse park because we were supposed to have 2 experienced customers coming. But they didn't catch the ferry so they canceled but we only learned this when we already put the saddles on the horses and all. Sooo, Makiko-san asked if I wanted to go on a ride instead of the customers! I was so happy! So for about an hour i could ride on Ouji my favorite horse around the camping site and on the beach. It wa really nice, I wasn't even led but I could control Ouji myself and ahhhhhh i loved it so much!!! So so much! Yesterday was very hot, like 41 celsius degrees but luckily we had wind. But in the end I washed the horses to cool them down a bit. Today it's hot again, around 37 celsius and no wind. I will probably suffer a lot hahaha. Also yesterday i lost my bracelet and my earphones. I don't know how I managed all this but yeah. I still have my headphones and I bought super cheap earphones in daiso because the apple earpods were already misbehaving, but it's a pain because I can't use those for skype calls and I can't control the volume either. But oh well. Today I don't know my agenda but I would love to go get some coconut milk with tapioca from the combini. That's my goal for today. Aim big, right?

[charlybaranger-blog]

Auguste 4th : festival in Obihiro. • • #festival #obihiro #biogifters #yuirestaurant #accordeon #taiyaki #yakisoba #yakisobabread #curry #matsuri #japan #wwoofjapan #travelbook #dailysketch #sketch #moleskine #blackandwhite #carnetdevoyage #croquis #insitu #comicstyle #slowtravel #voyagelent #countrysidesketcher #croqueurdecampagne #lauraandcharly

[beurreme-blog]

[tooruhyung]

Leaving iejima and what not

So thanks to a tiny boat and willing fishermen I reached the main island of okinawa! For sure it was an experience of a lifetime. 8 unlucky people squeezed together on the far end of the ship that's in the prey of the 3M tall waves of the ocean. I'm actually super surprised how I didn't really feel like crying or welcoming back the onigiri i forced down my chummed tummy before the trip. This is the captain and the boat:

Actually it seems there was one thing i faild to notice in my 25 years of self analyzing: i'm a friggin adrenaline junky. I was giddy. Laughing and joking with the fellow 'passengers' on the whole 40 minutes way. At one particularly gigantic wave that made the boat quite unstable i considered for a second that we could pretty easily just die but like what are the chances right? Either way, if my risk-taking continues to be this successful I should reach Korea tomorrow late afternoon and damn son, prepare for some intense fangirling as BTS is having their comeback and my GOT7 feels are on their peek and yeah i'm just generally very pumped to go full crazy. Like i'm so glad i'll be alone and not with some non-kpop-fan-friends of whom would make me at least try to act half normal. I admit the dream would be to go with fellow shawols or armys or ahgases or you know anyone who is into this madness.

Oh and finding my airbnb was such fun too. Google maps in Okinawa is the most unreliable bastard ever. Anyways i asked a dad (because my observations are that a man with young children in japan is usually the most helpful with me) and he actually just walked with me for 15 minutes and we chatted and at the end he asked for a selfie. It was so fun. He was really kind and complimented my japanese after my first word of 'sumimasen' which is excuse me. Im not kidding hahaha. Anyways see you in the next likely crazy post!

[wacca-farm]

笹刈り。 初のアメリカ人ウーファーのガブは、ベジタリアン、ビーガン、納豆ごはん、二杯目は梅干しご飯。 融合you go混じり合いマジいじり愛。鼻ピアス、花PEACEearth。 アースの発音間違えたら、えらいことになると初めて知った。 最後に一句 ベジタリアン居ないあいだに肉を食う。 #waccafarm #wwoof #wwoofer #wwoofjapan

[midoricestuje]

Today the sky here is beautiful.Wind is cold but it helps to time lapse videos to be even more magic.

Dneska je tu nebe nadherny,plny mraku. Studeny vitr je zene po nebi a pomaha mi tak natacet kouzelny casosberny videa

[theworldonaplateblog]

Cafe Hakari, Fuefuki

Now I'm going to write a review about a place very personal and dear to me. 

Over the summer, my sister and I went WWOOF-ing at a peach farm in a town about 2 hours away from Tokyo, a place called Fuefuki. Yamanashi is known for their peaches - they can go up to 8000 yen for four (that's $80 for four!) in the city. So I got firsthand experience learning to pick peaches, shipping them in gift boxes (as they are known to be good gifts also). I also tried living a vegetarian lifestyle during my stay there, stayed with a great host family with two rambunctious and lively boys, and got to help out with their cafe, which is what I'm reviewing today!

Cafe Hakari

Ichinomiyacho Kaneda 1223

Fuefuki-shi, Yamanashi 405-0079

Accessible by: Yamanashishi Station (JR Chuo Main Line). Take taxi to Cafe (~10 min drive)

So Cafe Hakari is the cafe run by the matriarch of the family. It features all organic all vegetarian foods. The cafe is not open all the time - usually only for lunch on certain days, and it features the same food. But it's all done in the kitchen, which you can see.

The cafe has an all natural feel to it - built entirely of wood. It also has an amazing view of its surroundings on the 2nd floor.

Like I mentioned before, their food is completely organic, vegetarian, and and features a lot of the things they've grown on the farm. For example, they serve the peaches that they grow. Japanese peaches are juicy, sweet, delicious and BIG - not like the ones you eat in America.

They also served chilled tofu soup, which admittedly, was a little hard to drink because I wasn't really into the idea of tofu soup. It wasn't to my liking so I had to chug it nose closed.

Next, we had deep fried seitan. I think I might have featured saitan before - it's wheat gluten, a non-meat protein substitute. This was delicious and you wouldn't think that you're eating something that's non-meat. The sauce was good, and the side salad was fresh and had a tinge of light pickled plum dressing. Just this alone could convert me into a vegetarian (maybe.)

We also had zakkokumai and gomokugohan. These are really healthy substitutes for white rice, rich in nutrients, grains, etc.

This is more of an information post about my experience rather than a recommendation, as I'm sure many of you will never venture here in your life. However, I do want to say that I also write this out of appreciation, not just for the delicious food but also for the wonderful experience I had organic farming. As a girl who has only lived in cities all her life, organic farming in a foreign place (well, not exactly foreign to me) was a life changing experience. I hope to be back there again!

[aaakssm-blog]

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Having a lil concert before leaving tomorrow. 😂 #wwoof ##wwoofer #wwoofjapan (at Kizarasu)