What we learned in our first year of gardening in the Japanese countryside: failures & okonomiyaki

My partner and I have lived in this ‘akiya’ house, one of the many vacant houses in Japan. One of the first projects we started when we moved into our country home was to start a garden. Of course, gardening in southern Japan has a different set of challenges compared to our gardening experiences in Canada. (ie. ⛈️🐒 )

Here’s what led to our garden's failure and how our Japanese countryside neighbours helped to make our second garden a successSubscribe for more candid insights into life in the Japanese countryside, from house renovations and gardening, as we make a home for ourselves on Shikoku, Japan’s smallest main island.

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Video Chapters
00:00 Intro: Our first year gardening in the Japanese countryside
01:14 Our house garden plot
01:52 2022: Our first garden attempt
00:3:02 Losing our garden
00:04:18 A new garden & how our neighbours helped
00:07:03 Cabbage harvest & okonomiyaki
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