Comments on: Obon http://www.adekun.com/blog/obon Enjoying the sights, sounds and smells of first-time parenthood. Progress on the organic vegetable garden and other ramblings of a gaijin in Japan's least populous prefecture. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:20:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: adekun http://www.adekun.com/blog/obon#comment-155 adekun Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:20:51 +0000 http://blog.adekun.com/2007/08/obon#comment-155 <p>Osaka is about four hours away and the nearest big city. Yet to stretch my legs and explore and have not heard of the Shindofuji school. Although I'm more toward the "everything in moderation" outlook, it would be good for me to find people of a similar position. Japan always will, I think, strike me as a country of opposites.<br /> Seems of little point to choose a macrobiotic diet and overlook the organic produce. I wonder in practice, if followers (that makes it sounds a bit like a cult) buy veg from the supermarket and not really question the methods behind it.<br /> The tobacco plants grown locally are sprayed with all sorts, in addition to the usual spraying and once harvested the carrots go in.</p> Osaka is about four hours away and the nearest big city. Yet to stretch my legs and explore and have not heard of the Shindofuji school. Although I’m more toward the “everything in moderation” outlook, it would be good for me to find people of a similar position. Japan always will, I think, strike me as a country of opposites.
Seems of little point to choose a macrobiotic diet and overlook the organic produce. I wonder in practice, if followers (that makes it sounds a bit like a cult) buy veg from the supermarket and not really question the methods behind it.
The tobacco plants grown locally are sprayed with all sorts, in addition to the usual spraying and once harvested the carrots go in.

]]> By: Meg Wolff http://www.adekun.com/blog/obon#comment-156 Meg Wolff Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:44:08 +0000 http://blog.adekun.com/2007/08/obon#comment-156 <p>Hello,<br /> I found your site from Globe of Blogs...very interesting. I am American and lived in Korea many years ago, so I visited Japan many times.</p> <p>I am interested in organic gardening (eating organic food), so this caught my attention.</p> <p>Do you know of Shindofuji Macrobiotic School in Osaka?<br /> Check out my Weblog at:<a href="http://www.becoming-whole.com" rel="nofollow">www.becoming-whole.com</a></p> <p>I am bookmarking your interesting site.</p> <p>Thank you.</p> <p>Sincerely,<br /> Meg Wolff</p> Hello,
I found your site from Globe of Blogs…very interesting. I am American and lived in Korea many years ago, so I visited Japan many times.

I am interested in organic gardening (eating organic food), so this caught my attention.

Do you know of Shindofuji Macrobiotic School in Osaka?
Check out my Weblog at:http://www.becoming-whole.com

I am bookmarking your interesting site.

Thank you.

Sincerely,
Meg Wolff

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