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Feb 284 min read

Fukui Verana Garden, #0005: Champing All Day

Well, here we are again. The start of a new season and, of course, the restart of garden journaling. We seem to be picking up some new...

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Feb 51 min read

Your Gardening Journey

This is the companion post to "My Gardening Journey," episode 6 of the Distracted Gardener that was released today. Please use the...

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Jan 302 min read

Ono Castle, a Floating Countryside Fortress

Fukui recently got a characteristic delivery of heavy snow. Over a three day period, some areas of the prefecture got 80 cm (about 30...

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Jan 132 min read

Yasaka Shrine, Echizen Town

It was a rainy, gray, dreary day of making worksheets and promotional materials. My toes began to fidget as I tired from my own...

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Jan 92 min read

Starting to Think About Seed Starting

At the time of writing this, there's a little less than 2 months before the seed starting season kicks off. It will be my third year...

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Jan 51 min read

A Random Drive Around Echizen City

It was the last day of my long winter holiday. A fatigue had set in. Cooking for family; participating in family gatherings;...

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Jan 32 min read

A 2024 Roadmap

Once again, Happy New Year! I am not immune to the unfortunate "let's-get-going-from-the-new-year" mentality. I like to think the fact...

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Jan 21 min read

New Year's Day Quakes in Japan

Hello, all. Happy New Year. I hope 2024 is only an improvement on the previous year. I would be remiss not to say anything about the...

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Oct 10, 20233 min read

Home Composting and Fixing the Cycle

A few weeks ago I was in Kanazawa with family. We were visting Forus, a multi-floor shopping center. On one floor, there was some sort of...

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Sep 27, 20233 min read

Fukui Veranda Garden, #0004: Spring Again

I really love February. It's a month of so much potential. What am I going to plant? What kind of season do I want to have? For the first...

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Sep 21, 20233 min read

Camping with Car #002: Tsuruga Bay

The best thing to come out of the locked down pandemic years was getting my wife to like camping and the outdoors just a little. The idea...

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Sep 20, 20232 min read

Fukui Veranda Garden, #0003: It's Alive!

Temperatures are cooling nicely, meaning it is a lot more pleasant being outside among the plants. That said, most things are slowing...

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Sep 14, 20234 min read

Fukui Veranda Garden, #0002: Hope on the Horizon

I wrote last time about my general disappointment with the garden this summer. Most of the failure was likely my own fault, but a lot of...

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Sep 8, 20232 min read

The Echizen Coastline

The breeze is tinged sweetly with salt. There's a crash. There's a retreat. There's a crash and a retreat and a crash and a retreat. It...

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Sep 3, 20234 min read

Fukui Veranda Garden, #0001: A Weird Season

It's been a strange year in the garden. Hot -- that is truly hot -- days are normal. My first two seasons I saw days over 32C (~89F)...

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Jan 24, 20233 min read

Suzanne Simard's "Finding the Mother Tree"

Trees use mushrooms to talk with each other and send each other gifts. That's the incredibly ridiculous sounding idea that brought me to...

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Jan 16, 20233 min read

My Boots Are Dead

My hiking boots are dead. I killed them. I killed them with trails and mountains and forests and rocky beaches. For 8 years they clung to...

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Oct 28, 20224 min read

Camping with Car #001

Last month, my wife and I bought a new car. There's a boom in vehicles that can be slept in, particularly in a camping or wild camping...

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Aug 3, 20222 min read

Elsewhere: Café Tamon in Higashi Chaya-gai

Any desire to move out of Fukui and into the big city only diminishes with time. Here there is quiet. There is always a mountain within...

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Jul 19, 20223 min read

Pointed Wandering: Shorenge Waterfall

On the way to Café Mare and the Echizen Coast a little while back, we drove passed a roughly cut wooden sign standing at the edge of the...

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A Blog from Natural Fukui

Trail, Table, Garden started in June 2022 to focus on living with nature, organic gardening in containers, and sustainable living. Based out of Fukui, Japan, we look at local restaurants and other businesses that try to do things responsibly; jump into the garden and look at how to grow different plants (and of course how to use them after harvest); and we'll be giving the beautiful natural places of Fukui and greater Japan a platform.

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