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Food Forest Japan Fruit Tree-Planting Workshop

Food Forest Japan is a project that fill our forests with edible fruits and plants as they used to be. To make it happen, all we need is to eat fruits and return the seeds back in the forest. How easy it sounds? Please join our workshops for fun!

 Program (1.5 – 2 Hours):

- Planting Fruit Trees

- Making Fruit Tree Guilds

- Eating Seasonal Fruit and Sowing its Seeds

- Foraging

- Dehydrating Fruits

Date: We plant daily from May to October, depending on the weather -- please check our website for calendar.

Participation fee: 1,600 yen

Location: Eden Herb Garden

Address: Matsunoyama Kurokura 1759, Tokamachi City, Niigata

Things to prepare: Please come in clothing that you don’t mind getting dirty. A rain jacket, rubber boots or sneakers, gloves, hat, water bottle, towel, and camera may also come in handy.

Organized by Green Philosophy

Green Philosophy aims to develop a Food Forest in Tokamachi City, Niigata, Japan, based on Fukuoka Masanobu’s philosophy on natural farming, permaculture design, Robert and Robyn Guyton’s food forest in New Zealand, and synecoculture as kick-started by Otsuka Takashi. We hope to nurture a harmonious connection among plant, animal, and human life that would revive forests in Niigata, and ultimately, all over the country.

Volunteers 

We are hosting volunteers who can help running the workshop and planting trees. We will provide meals as an exchange of volunteering for the day and accommodation if you can help more than one day. There is a bus for volunteers called GreenLiner from Tokyo to Matsudai only for 2,000 yen for some weekends.

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