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August 15 2011, 12:03am | Comments »
August 15 2011, 12:03am | Comments »
July 31 2011, 11:07pm | Comments »
Our broccoli has grown to gigantic proportions this year. This specimen weighs 1085 grams! Saturday and Sunday we will be bringing lots of these monsters to the farmers market next to Hokkaido jingu in Sapporo. Better wake up…
July 29 2011, 6:08am | Comments »
Kaoru Ohsumi from herb & natural room Kina came over to Niseko Green Farm with some herb loving friends for a farm tour and some vegetable picking. Kim and Kat from J-Sekka in Hirafu made us a special lunch with…
July 28 2011, 9:38am | Comments »
July 26 2011, 6:36pm | Comments »
I always plant some aromatic herbs along the sides in the green house to attract bees for the pollination of the peppers, eggplants and tomatoes. Usually they self-pollinate, but on very hot days the pollen will not release…
July 17 2011, 11:58am | Comments »
We have had a bit of rain recently. On one of these days this frog was sitting on a fuki leaf waiting for the first drops to come down. Not using herbicides and pesticides greatly improves the frog…
July 11 2011, 10:03am | Comments »
Goat morning from Niseko Green Farm. Our goats take a walk around the farm to scoop out the latest greens and also had a preview of the strawberries and next years purple asparagus. Here is the link for…
June 22 2011, 8:51am | Comments »
This is a photo of a seed potato about two weeks after planting. You can see the root system has already developed well and the white bean sprout like shoots are about to come out of the ground.…
June 18 2011, 10:42pm | Comments »
With the warm weather finally coming in, the trees also awake from hibernation and are keen to absorb some rays of light. Lots of deciduous trees in the Niseko area and it creates some quite stunning colours and…
June 7 2011, 12:18pm | Comments »
garlic. A member of the onion family, garlic does well in cold climates and Hokkaido is ideal for growing it. We have gathered some Hokkaido varieties and are working on a large enough supply. Sometimes this takes…
June 5 2011, 4:02pm | Comments »