by Imani Mosher | Jan 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
I have taken a lot of time to formulate my response to the question, “What is good food?” After considering many aspects of food, like the way the food was grown, how it traveled or how it gets prepared, I have concluded that my answer is much simpler than that. After...
by Andrew McFarland | Jan 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
Within our first week at the Asian Rural Institute (ARI), we were taken on a tour of the Nasu canal and learned of its importance. The Nasu canal provides accessible water to the adjacent Nasu plain which enables farmers to irrigate and farm the land. But this was not...
by Avery Liang | Jan 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
It has already been two weeks since we started our program. In recent days we spent most of time at ARI where we learnt about the natural agriculture contributed to the foodlife works of there. We did chores in the morning and afternoon, receive lectures from Yukiko...
by legiga1 | Jan 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
When I think about Japan, one of the first things that cross my mind is nature. From what I heard and what I saw in the past, I always had in mind that nature was embedded in the Japanese culture and that the people in the country had a healthy relationship with...
by Peter Reynolds | Jan 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
After going to the see the Nasau Canal today, I found myself thinking a lot about the contrasting examples we have looked at so far involving environmental engineering to alter the land in a specific area. The Nasau Canal was made by pure human-power, and was done so...
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