What Is ‘Good’ Food?

by | Jan 26, 2016 | ARI, Community, Farming, Food

In addition to writing online blog posts, we students write personal journals about our experiences abroad. We continually find ourselves sharing in unfamiliar cultural practices, and reflection journals help us step back from these experiences and interpret the Japan...

The Stories Behind Our Food

by | Jan 11, 2016 | ARI, Community, Farming, Food

We woke up with the sun this Saturday morning to do some community work on the farm. My group’s responsibility was to climb into a pit filled with fermented corn, pass up buckets of the funky-smelling substance, and load it into barrels for relocation. Our shoveling...