by Mickey TerLouw | Jan 22, 2018 | ARI, Nagawamachi
If you’ve never grown your own food, it can be hard to really think about the process. When you only see the end product, the process is obscured – but I’ve found that experiencing the product makes the process that much more satisfying. On our first day at ARI, we...
by Ose John | Jan 19, 2018 | ARI, Nagawamachi, Tokyo
Throughout our time in Japan so far, we have had the privilege to experience everything from Tokyo rush hour to the inner workings of a rural Japanese sustainable farm. Throughout all of the changes that we have gone through, one thing has remained constant: the...
by Choi Alexander | Jan 18, 2018 | ARI, Food
There is no sincerer love than the love of food -George Bernard Shaw At ARI, everything is done together. Morning exercises, cleaning, and farm work are all performed as a team, building a sense of community, togetherness, and friendship. Gathering people from all...
by letran1 | Jan 17, 2018 | ARI
ARI reaps benefits from what others would call trash. The benefits of finding resources in your surrounding, local environment plays a huge part in the ARI coined term: foodlife. Foodlife is a word I have been processing since being introduced to the ARI term a few...
by Alex Screaton | Jan 17, 2018 | ARI
The term idealist and utopia may have lost its glamour for many in the twenty-first century, but at the Asian Rural Institute, they maintain that environmental sustainability is not a far-off dream. The only choice is for us to grasp it or let the earth slide between...
by Larson Paige | Jan 14, 2018 | ARI, Farming
Last week we visited a farm in the Forest and Atelier Non-Electric. At first it was odd to see a farm in the woods, but the owner told us that Japan is actually 70% forest, so this was actually the most natural farm for the area. After learning a little about how it...
