Second week at the farm, we more or less did similar work but not the same group of WWOOFers and more rice sorting (tchaka-tchaka) as Kazushige was away for 2 days and we also had lots of rain (tchaka-tchaka takes place indoors).
At the back of the warehouse we built the frame for a future greenhouse.
We placed some white rice to soak in the family jacuzzi (goen monbulo) in view of seeding. Kazushige does this for another farmer and gets paid for that.
Seeding Daikon, carrots and transplanting Nira ( a bit like shives ) … likely all this will be used as base for future WWOOFers’ meals.
Tchaka-tchaka …
Relaxing break to survive an intense session of tchaka-tchaka.
Then we went with Kaori to pick some tender wild plant stems (Sun, could not find its name…), local to Okinawa islands, very acidic…
which are then peeled, salted, left to rest a few days, after which we drained them of water and added vinegar, sugar and honey.
Miki was given some fish by a local, but neither she nor Kazumasu seemed to have any clues on how to prepare it… we still had a good slice of sashimi. (Kazushige would have known!)
Mia had the funny idea of trying to bake some pizza… given the stove we had she had to pre-bake the crust in a pan.
And finish the topping using a torch blower!!
More tchaka-tchaka and labelling…
They give full confidence as I was asked to complete the labels by hand writing ( my hand writing in Japanese!!).
Test: one of these was annotated by a native, which one?
We tried our best to protect the chicken from Yama-neko, but never reached full success 🙁
On Friday we got to seed the rice form the neighbour, which had been soaking in jacuzzi for the week.
We used the magic machine once again, but twice the amount of trays/rice, so about ~500 trays.
Some odd jobs always as an option to keep us busy:
Evening meal was a special treat, as it was Patrick’s 50th celebration !!
It was also supposed to be our last day of WWOOFing with them, but you will see we extended one more day so Yann could also discover and enjoy the experience with us!!