3rd Step ~To start a farm~

Welcome back to Agri Step!

Thank you for always reading.

I have finished my training abroad in the U.S., which I had been telling you about as my 2nd Step, and now it is time for me to take the next step forward.

As for my future agri step, I would like to write articles as a documentary of how I am able to create my farm.

I will be updating this page more regularly than before, so please check my Instagram as well, so you can read it when I update it.

3rd Step

Look back on 2nd Step

Through my participation in the training program in the U.S., I was able to get to know many people.

Among them, there were people who said, “I read Agri Step!” and “I look forward to your updates.”

As a farmer who is also a social entrepreneur, I feel that it is important for me to share the current situation of agriculture, my thoughts on agriculture, and the lives of farmers with various people, which will lead us to think deeply about agriculture.

Also, through the agricultural training in the U.S., I was able to learn deeply about cultivation knowledge, management philosophy, farm design, and the concept of farm management as a business.

I believe that I was able to experience an irreplaceable time.

I feel that this is the time to focus and show what I have learned and how I can apply it to my farm.

3rd Step: Beginning

Finally, I am going to start farming.

I am excited, but of course I am also anxious about the future.

My grandparents used to be farmers, but they retired due to old age more than 10 years ago.

After that, they asked their neighbor to cultivate the land for them.

I had a longing to be a farmer since I was a child, but I devoted myself to playing rugby until high school, and when I entered university, I finally started to work part-time in agriculture, and through repeated experience, I steadily learned “what farming is all about.”

If I could go back in time, I wish I had asked my grandfather more about agriculture.

Still, I received “lessons” from various farmers from all over the world.

“Farm management,” “how to work as a farmer,” “farming philosophy,” “how to grow crops.” I learned about so many things that I can’t even count them all.

I will be growing mainly rice, wheat, soybeans, and vegetables, but the work I have experienced so far includes orchards, animal husbandry (milk, wool, meat, etc.), sericulture, beekeeping, bamboo, flowers, seedlings, and the list goes on.

I am sure I have come a long way to get to this point.

Just because you have seen many things does not mean that you can produce good products.

It is important to continue to “gain experience” by learning from senior farmers.

As I am gradually seeking a solution to the question of “what is farming?”

My grandmother told me one day that when my grandfather was passing away, he wondered who would take care of their land.

This was before I went to the U.S.

It was a moment that made me realize that “agriculture is something that will be passed onto future generations.”

I think there are so many different answers to the thoughts of agriculture. If you ask 100 people, there will be 100 different ways.

However, I believe that the feeling I had at this moment was the “one of the answers”.

Two years have passed since then.

In agriculture, there is still a lack of successors and an increasing number of abandoned lands.

In addition, the need for earning tactics has become even stronger than before in order to make a living as a farmer.

The effects of the pandemic are still continuing.

There is no end to my anxiety, but I am determined to start farming with “strong aspirations” and “great significance” in mind.

Agri Step from now on

As I mentioned in the beginning, I would like to tell you about the process of becoming a new farmer in the form of a documentary so that you, the reader, can enjoy the experience of becoming a new farmer.

I hope that this blog will be of some help to those who are thinking about becoming a farmer.

Look forward to the next article.