Nagoya ¨C Japan may have ramped up its COVID-19 vaccination efforts, but with the ¥Ç¥ë¥¿Öê (deruta kabu, delta variant) on the rise, an already-long pandemic looks like it¡¯s not going to end anytime soon. You¡¯ve done the Netflix binges, you¡¯ve done the baking and now it¡¯s summer ... so, how about some ˆ@Ü¿ (engei, gardening)?
If you¡¯re serious about ˆ@Ü¿ in Japan, then you¡¯ll need to learn a lot of new vocabulary ¡ª from ·N (tane, seed) to ·ÊÁÏ (³ó¾±°ù²â¨, fertilizer) to …§·‚ (²õ³ó¨±°ì²¹°ì³Ü, harvest).
In recent years, the rise of Þr˜IÌåòYÞrˆ@ (n¨gy¨ taiken n¨en, community farms) have provided city-dwellers the chance to share land and grow their own vegetables. Sharing a single lot requires a small fee, usually around a few thousand yen per month. Lists of urban community farms can be found online on sites such as National Farming Experience Farms.
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