This is a story about an international couple raising and home educating three young boys on a small island in Japan, half living in buses, engaged in organic, self-sufficient farming in the middle of a mountain forest while dealing with climate, cultural, and personal challenges. These pages are about pretty much anything and everything all guided by our family motto, Taking Chances, Making Changes, Being Happy. Thank you very much for joining us on our ongoing crazy adventure.

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Home - Story - 2022 - September
September 7-10, 2022 -  This was overnight trip number 21 and was four days and three nights. This was also the first trip after all of us had COVID for two weeks last month. I ate a bunch of rice, pasta, and bread and got a mega arthritis flare up. The work began with getting rid of all the stored canopy from the oak trees which was getting moldy. Used it all to burn a group of four stumps of trees close to the parking area. Then the compost was emptied out into the first garden bed and refilled with a bunch of shiso leaves and stems along with turmeric leaves. Then worked on leveling out the area in front of the first bed and transferred a group of fruit trees from and metal frame garden to the new beds. The last day was spent working on the play pit and raking up the street.

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September 20-22, 2022 - This was overnight trip number 22 and was for three days and two nights. This was also a couple of days after the strongest typhoon to ever hit this island slammed through causing a lot of debris all around the campsite. The typhoon also knocked over the already cut oak trees which will now make them much easier to process. Additional work was completed on the garden beds.

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