百姓　Hyakusho

September 18-20 stayed three days in a hundred-year-old Japanese folk house in 大平 (Odaira) in Nagano-Prefecture. 神向寺さん (Mr. Jinkoji) cooking...

September 15 met with Mr. Iimura of Ginza Farm. Ginza is Japan’s version Manhattan’s 5 th avenue. Ginza Farm is involved with rooftop g...

September 4, spoke at a seminar sponsored by the Toyama Straw Bale House Association. The week after the seminar, September 5-9, I worked w...

August 29 and September 25 helped with an earthen oven workshop led by Suzuki-san at Iitate Village (飯舘村) in Fukushima Prefecture. 8/29 Buil...

Saw many examples of natural building in Thailand. Thatch roofs are very common. The thatch roofing can be bought as shingles, and then la...

On Friday, August 20th, Neil and I took the overnight train from Bangkok to Chiang Mai. The next morning, Jeff, a lecturer at a Chiang Mai ...

Visited a hospital that concentrates on herbal medicine, and it's accompanying herbal medicine museum. We then visited the ecovillage...

August 17-24, visited Neil Willmann of Daruma Farm in Thailand. Neil and his water baffallo Neil and his wife, Su, also run a spa, Vimaya . ...

August 14th, attended 小さい削ろう会 in Enzan, Yamanashi-Prefecture. Over the course of a week, two teams of carpenters, one Japanese and one from...

August third, visited Tokyo Yuden, a company that collects used cooking oil in the Tokyo area and produces biodiesel.

Threshed 30kg of winter wheat.

July 11th attended a takekomai (竹小舞) and earthen plastering workshop in Fujino, Kangawa. Takekomai and earthen plaster Architect Takahiro Ya...

My buddy Paul Starr from Butler, Pennsylvania, gave me these seeds some years ago. I'm finally gettin' around to grown'em out. ...

The evening of July 4 th stayed at the Asian Rural Institute ( アジア学院 ) in Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture. Asian Rural Institute trains young le...

July 4 th visited Tochigi, famous for its Kura ( 蔵 ), storehouses. Tochigi is also renown for its tile roofs. Old tiles used as pavers....