A shift from pesticide-free farming to natural farmingAs you can tell from its name, ”Teraoka Shizen Nouen” (Teraoka Natural Farm) is a farm that makes crops by natural farming. This means that no agrichemicals or chemical fertilizer are used. Up to this point, it may sound like an ordinary organic farm, but what’s amazing here is that they don’t plow the fields or remove the weeds. The farmland is left completely the way it is. Yes, they make crops in a very ”natural” way. |
There is no waste in the natural cycle of lifeTeraoka believes that crops grown naturally have all the necessary nutrients they’re supposed to have. So he considers ”over-grown” vegetables and seedlings that are usually pulled out to thin out the field to be good vegetables. The ”over-grown” vegetables are those that have grown too much and started to flower. This phenomenon is commonly seen with radishes and Chinese cabbage which belong to the cruciferous vegetable family. |
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- Teraoka Shizen Nouen (Teraoka Natural Farm)
- 566 Kitasaka-cho, Kishiwada, Osaka Prefecture
- URL http://shizen-no-chikara.com/