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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...
Feb 28, 20244 min read
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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...
Feb 5, 20241 min read
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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...
Jan 30, 20242 min read
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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...
Jan 13, 20242 min read
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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...
Jan 9, 20242 min read
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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;...
Jan 5, 20241 min read
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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...
Jan 3, 20242 min read
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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...
Jan 2, 20241 min read
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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...
Oct 10, 20233 min read
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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...
Sep 27, 20233 min read
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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...
Sep 21, 20233 min read
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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...
Sep 20, 20232 min read
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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...
Sep 14, 20234 min read
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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...
Sep 8, 20232 min read
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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)...
Sep 3, 20234 min read
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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...
Jan 24, 20233 min read
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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...
Jan 16, 20233 min read
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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...
Oct 28, 20224 min read
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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...
Aug 3, 20222 min read
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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...
Jul 19, 20223 min read
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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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