飯舘村

November 16 and 17 was in Iitate village in Fukushima Prefecture meeting with the architect and general contractor of a model home being built with funds from Japan's Ministry of the Environment.The home will feature an ecological design using natural materials, including one wall of straw bale.
After finishing work on the 17, visited Shimpei Murakami (村上真平) who runs an organic farm and macrobiotic restaurant. Murakami-san has worked as agricultural extention agent in Thailand and other parts of southeast Asia. In 2002, I read a book written by Murakami-san entitled, "Lessons from Nature".He recently built a wood fired oven using Allen Scott's oven design.