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Sweet Potato Harvest
2007.11.04
Everyone takes a break after harvesting to pose for a picture. Those are some big sweet potatoes!
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Everyone takes a break after harvesting to pose for a picture. Those are some big sweet potatoes!
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The girls show off their sweet potatoes.
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The girls show off their sweet potatoes.
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The sweet potatoes are stacked to dry for ten days.
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The sweet potatoes are stacked to dry for ten days.
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The harvesting machine at work. The machine drives forward and pulls the potatoes up the belt while leaving the rocks and vines behind. The girls ride alongside and grab the potatoes and put them in the bins.
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The harvesting machine at work. The machine drives forward and pulls the potatoes up the belt while leaving the rocks and vines behind. The girls ride alongside and grab the potatoes and put them in the bins.
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Honami, Shoma, and Tomomi.
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Honami, Shoma, and Tomomi.
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Mmm... crate
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Mmm... crate
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Honami takes a turn driving the tiller.
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Honami takes a turn driving the tiller.
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Sarah takes a turn next.
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Sarah takes a turn next.
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Sarah, Yoshi, Mika, and Laurel pose with the giant hands.
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Sarah, Yoshi, Mika, and Laurel pose with the giant hands.
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Shiori, Shoma, and Mika
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Shiori, Shoma, and Mika
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Shoma takes a lick of mom's teacup.
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Shoma takes a lick of mom's teacup.
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Tempura maitake mushrooms and shishito peppers with Mizusawa's famous fresh udon for lunch. Shiori shows us how to eat our noodles properly.
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Tempura maitake mushrooms and shishito peppers with Mizusawa's famous fresh udon for lunch. Shiori shows us how to eat our noodles properly.
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Freshly made Mizusawa udon noodles
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Freshly made Mizusawa udon noodles
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Laurel takes a picture of Sarah posing with a jolly statue outside a noodle shop.
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Laurel takes a picture of Sarah posing with a jolly statue outside a noodle shop.
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Sunday we went sweet potato harvesting and Yoshi's parents' sweet potato farm. We harvested sweet potatoes from one small field (all of the others were already finished) and helped till the soil to plant the wheat cover crop. The potatoes dry for 10 days before being peeled, cooked, and dried. We'll come back in a few weeks to help with the peeling.
After harvesting, we went to Mizusawa to try the famous local udon noodles for lunch and then visited the temple before having a relaxing bath at Ikaho onsen's outdoor bath.
