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Sora Farm Newsletter-Vol. 58
November 3rd is “Culture Day” in Japan. It is a national holiday to love freedom and peace and to promote culture. The “love of freedom and peace” is declared in the Constitution of Japan, which was promulgated on November 3rd, 1946. To commemorate this event, this date was designated as Culture Day. Many museums offer
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Sora Farm Newsletter-Vol. 57
“Our mission is to prove healthy food can be delicious and fun!” You will find this message on the first page of our website. However, we were not always like that. It all started when our son was born and started to eat food. As we realized that we were solely responsible for what he
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Sora Farm Newsletter-Vol. 56
Rainy season has arrived and we started wrapping up some of the garden areas… However, no need to feel sad. Cold season means bread season. Kenji has been so enthusiastic to create new products that I can hardly catch up for posting. The photos below are “Apple Bread” we brought to the market last Saturday.
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Sora Farm Newsletter-Vol. 55
Happy Thanksgiving Day! In Japan, there is no national holiday called “Thanksgiving Day”, but traditionally, full moon in mid autumn is celebrated to express gratitude for the harvest. This year, it was October 6th. We were hoping that the rice plants in our garden would grow some ears of rice by then so that we could
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Sora Farm Newsletter-Vol. 54
Last week was a rainy and cold week. Two of the best things to do for those weeks are: baking bread and eating them. We brought to the market 3 new products last week, German country bread (1st photo, combination of rye and spelt flour), farmer’s baguette (no photo, leavened with raisin starter) and rice
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Sora Farm Newsletter-Vol. 53
Our heirloom tomatoes and cherry tomatoes have been doing well this year. Our small greenhouse is full of colors. We got the seeds from our friend in Toronto and we don’t know the names of the varieties, but they are all beautiful to see and so delightful to taste! We also had some cute twin
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Sora Farm Newsletter-Vol. 52
We have been writing a newsletter every single week and this is Volume 52, which means we have achieved one-year mark! Thank you very much for reading and giving us encouraging feedback. If we can make you smile a little on Monday mornings, it will make our day, too. One more thing to celebrate. Today,
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Sora Farm Newsletter-Vol. 51
September 15th is “Respect-for-the-aged” day in Japan. It became a national holiday in Japan in 1966, but why September 15th? It is based on this legend: There was a dedicated son who lived with his ailing father. Every day, he went to the mountains to gather firewood to sell and make a living. One day,
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Sora Farm Newsletter-Vol. 50
Is there a competition for the smallest pumpkin? These are “dwarf kuri pumpkins”. A few years ago, I ate some at my friend’s home and I fell in love with the sweetness and creaminess of it. I asked for the seeds and kept them, and planted this year. They are supposed to be smaller than
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Sora Farm Newsletter-Vol. 49
We had our first apples! We planted four apple trees three year ago. This spring, two of them had flowers, then one of them started to have fruits, lots of them. We were so excited and waited and waited for them to become bigger. They didn’t get much bigger and started to change color. We
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