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About one year ago, a former embedded systems designer from the Japanese automobile industry named Makoto Koike...

There's this particular shoot that's growing alongside a disused water pipe inside my house. It's all concrete below this so I don't know where its...

Gday guys

hope the summer heat isnt getting at you to much!
so i just got the use of a field near my place for nothing, it hasnt been worked in...

Hi all...
In my searches for a decent piece of land to turn into farm, I recently bumped into a plot classified as sanrin, with the note that it is...

This might be a open ended question,how best to start a veggie garden?
Go organic or no dig gardening or get some chemical fertilizers or find and...

This year I noticed that my purple cabbage did not have as many cabbage worms as my green kale, so I decided to try a bit of fun in the fall garden....

The new Agri Drone looks awesome and the idea of having one of these swooping around at night battling insect pests sounds fantastic. The idea being...

Looking for a place to live in the countryside of Japan and learn/share traditional skills? Want to work and be part of a community based on...

Normally we don't see these chaps till the autumn but this year they have arrived early

Not sure of the species but they will eat anything and...

Hey guys

so been here in japan nigh on a year looking like ill be moving to shizuoka pref soon!
so was wondering if anyone knew of any blacksmith...

Anybody here brewing their own beer?

I'm interested in what kind of equipment you use and what kind of costs you have compared to store bought...

I love to try new things in my garden. So four years ago I planted an avocado in a sub‐irrigated planter. I just thought it would look cool and...

So, spring is upon us. I think the early melon growers are already starting to harvest or are just about to.

I have put some of my first seeds...

What do you guys think about Hydroponic and Aquaponic? See the links below:

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As I know Hydroponic is no good for health as it is using...

Got an email today. I think I remember signing up for a mailing list from this site, but not totally sure.

Hi Eric

Are you an Irish or...

Maybe we can get another scroller thread going here..!

Post up a photograph of any plant you can't identify by yourself.

Man, I really wish I...

I was looking at this on youtube

That might be my exit strategy from English teaching someday...

Times are getting real tough financially recently for me due to some life drama, anyway I started going over my finances in detail and I found out...

The charcoal kiln re-build is rolling along!
Sorry for the lack of depth on the post, but things are still in progress and wood needs to be cut and...

After reading about CYEK's problems with his neighbours stealing his tractor because they felt he wasn't going to use it and about the Granny in...

Mrs N sometimes struggles with the kusakariki as she isn't as tall as I am so we asked the guys at our agricultural suppliers if they had one for...

I was wondering if anyone out there had tried burning bamboo (split of course) in a woodstove.
When we moved to our property about 12 years ago, I...

I don't know if anyone else has as much bamboo to play with as I do, but if you want to make a nice long water pipe out of bamboo, there is a really...

It's a big day in our village today, first matsuri of the year and possibly the first one in Chiba each year. The day starts at first light with all...