Welcome to Inamochi Farm in Snowy Niigata, Japan
Hello from Gosen, Niigata, Japan.
We are Inamochi Farm, a small family farm shaped by eight generations of farming.
Today, the eighth generation leads the farm, while the seventh generation - a yellow-haired farmer who loves everything yellow - shares our daily stories with the world.
We grow rice, lotus roots, egoma, okra, and now lemons. Some of our work happens under a wide blue sky. Some of it happens knee-deep in mud, in rain, snow, strong wind, or the summer heat.
Our farm is not perfect, and farming is rarely easy. Machines break. Weather changes. Plants surprise us. We worry, try again, and sometimes laugh at ourselves.
Here, we will share the real life behind Japanese food:
lotus roots growing beneath muddy water
rice fields changing with the seasons
our experiment growing lemons in snowy Niigata
small discoveries, mistakes, and quiet joys
the story of one farming family passing its work to the next generation
Older posts on this blog are mainly in Japanese. From now on, our farm journal will be shared mainly in English so that more people around the world can visit our fields.
From muddy fields in Niigata to tables around the world.
Thank you for finding us. What would you like to see from a small Japanese farm?