Celebrating Connection and Harvest at the Second Autumn Equinox Festival

Enjoying delicious food and talk with like-minded people

One year has passed since we started the membership program at Second Nature Farm. We celebrated the farm’s anniversary and the second Autumn Equinox Festival, inviting many friends who agree with our concept that Nature is the No.1.

The new faces fitted into the atmosphere immediately and chatted about the food they had brought to the potluck with the regular members as if they had been long-time friends.

The healthy cooking class, a regular seasonal event, was again a big hit. A cookery expert, Chie, presented us with new recipes (the center and left pictures below), such as hashed brown and brownies using the farm’s specialty (the left picture above), ulu (commonly known as “breadfruit”).

Happy times passed quickly at this year’s Autumn Equinox Festival as people also enjoyed harvesting, e.g., picking ulu, digging for ginger roots, and sharing the fresh bounty on site.

[Second Nature Farm Membership Program]

Second Nature Farm informs its members of the seasonal harvest of healthy, fresh fruits and vegetables that are grown without the use of chemical fertilizers or pesticides, and distributes them at reasonable prices, lower than the market price. For membership information, please click the link below to view.

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Author of this article

日本の新聞社系週刊誌記者、第二電電(現KDDI)広報責任者を経て米国留学。「持続可能な発展」などの政策比較研究を行い2000年カリフォルニア大サンディエゴ校で太平洋国際関係研究修士号取得。ハワイで有機園芸業を行っていたGary E. Johnsonとの結婚を機に2005年ハワイへ移住。翻訳出版とヨガインストラクターを続けながらGaryと共同で、「健康な食の生産、体と心の浄化、自然生態系の保全」を目的(3Pモットー)にした「森林農業+ヨガ・瞑想」プロジェクトをオアフ島ワイマナロで推進している。

After working as a reporter for a weekly newspaper and as a public relations manager at Daini-Denden (now KDDI), she moved to the U.S. to study comparative policies, such as on “sustainable development.” In 2000, she received her M.A. in Pacific International Relations from the University of California, San Diego, and in 2005, she married Gary E. Johnson, an organic gardener in Hawaii. While continuing to work as a translator, publisher, and yoga instructor, she has been working together with Gary on the Agroforestry + Yoga/Meditation project in Waimanalo, Oahu, which aims to “produce healthy food, purify the body and mind, and preserve the natural ecosystem (3P motto).”

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