About five years ago, I joined a Satoyama preserving group and started doing activities.

Satoyama means a border area between human domicile and wildlife, which is including rice paddy fields, forests and those surroundings.

Japanese people have been making full use of the geographical features in Satoyama area for a long time, in spite of its geographical disadvantages that are small, close and steep.

In Satoyama area, People have been playing an important role in wildlife conservation as well as enhancing sustainable living standards.
There are so many kind of birds, insects, flowers, trees there.

This weekend, I cannot update a long essay in this blog because I am very busy supporting for the Satoyama activities.

It is time that they started plowing rice paddy fields.

I just uploaded a drawing of bamboo sprouts which you can eat.