Chiba - Before Brown's Field
Let's use the Way-back machine to take you back before I went to Japan. Think sometime between March and July, 2005. One of those recycled conversations in my life began with "So, what are you going to do in Japan?"
Me: Well, I'm going to be backpacking around Japan and working on different farms. There are a lot of farms that grow and different things. I want to be amazed by nature again. I want to pull a gigantic daikon radish out of the ground. I want to see carrots the size of my leg.
Me: And there's this specific farm I really want to go to. The owners are essayists and photographers. I think it'd be nice to talk to writers regularly, about what I want to do, and their lives. The wife is a cooking teacher/author(she writes cookbooks), and the husband is a photographer for the European Press Agency. From their listing it says, "We can teach you how to cook macrobiotic food, or photography."
Me: How cool is it to be able to learn how to cook, do photography, talk about writing AND work on a farm at the same time? This is gonna be friggin' awesome. I hope they will accept me. They probably are really popular.
Keep my early impressions in mind as you read along. I spent two weeks at Brown's Field.
Me: Well, I'm going to be backpacking around Japan and working on different farms. There are a lot of farms that grow and different things. I want to be amazed by nature again. I want to pull a gigantic daikon radish out of the ground. I want to see carrots the size of my leg.
Me: And there's this specific farm I really want to go to. The owners are essayists and photographers. I think it'd be nice to talk to writers regularly, about what I want to do, and their lives. The wife is a cooking teacher/author(she writes cookbooks), and the husband is a photographer for the European Press Agency. From their listing it says, "We can teach you how to cook macrobiotic food, or photography."
Me: How cool is it to be able to learn how to cook, do photography, talk about writing AND work on a farm at the same time? This is gonna be friggin' awesome. I hope they will accept me. They probably are really popular.
Keep my early impressions in mind as you read along. I spent two weeks at Brown's Field.