yamagishi

We spent a beautiful fall day at Yamagishi Farm near Narita today. Tetsuo's parents live there, along with two other families. Yamagishi is a community that was founded in the 1950's and that has many locations throughout Japan and in other parts of the world. Mio and Tetsuo met at a Yamagishi when they were growing up, and Tetsuo's parents have continued to live and work in several locations. This is one of the smaller ones. We had a delicious lunch that consisted solely of food from the farm - fresh tomatoes, cooked eggplant, pumpkin, and numerous other Japanese vegetables. Then, we spent the afternoon digging up sweet potatoes and touring the other areas of the farm.

Digging up the sweet potatoes.



These "beans" were nearly a foot in length.

Tetsuo and his father and mother.

A vegetable. We learned so many new food words today. This one slips my mind.

Mio and Tetsuo and grass whistles.