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We are growing various kinds of fruits and doing fruit picking as business. We are one of the largest fruit farms in Yamanashi and the largest fruit picking farm in Minami Alps City.
Our busy season is mostly from the middle of March until the beginning of October. We need lots of volunteers during the periods but even during our low season, we need some volunteers as well.
For your meals, basically you don't have to cook and my sister in law, Yoko-san will cook VERY tasty Japanese for your dinner every day. For your lunch, we usually eat on the farm or at helpers' house. For breakfast, we provide you food and you eat at the dorm.
We ask you for five hours help per day and you are given two days off during a week.
Besides having lots of volunteers from both Japan and overseas, we have 5-6 full time employees.
We ask you to bring health insurance that can cover and protect you out of any injuries and sickness during your stay.
Also, if possible, please bring international driving permit. That would help us a lot.
In case you would like to work longer for paid job, we can talk over the issue, but you need to bring "working holiday visa" and study the regulations in your side before you come over.
Also, besides ordinary volunteers, we can take some people who would like to learn fruit growing as your internship.
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Jardinage
Aide dans une ferme
They can learn Japanese culture and Japanese sense of value. They can see how Japanese people
are living in the countryside in deep way while staying here to help us.
We try to give lots of tasty Japanese food besides their learning Japanese culture.
＊The calendar below shows our farming work
and roughly what we do in a year.
Season help:
January -February Pruning branches of apple tree
January -February Pruning, trimming and cutting branches
January -February collecting branches
February peeling the bark of grape vines & apple trees
Mid & late March Thinning out buds of peaches
70-80% of peach buds will be taken away.
Before they turn to be flowers,we thin
out about 70-80% of the buds of the peaches, in order to produce big and
tasty peaches.
Mid & late March Pruning branches of cherry trees
Mid & late March planting new trees
Mid & late March peeling the bark of grape vines & apple trees
Mid & late March weeding & mowing
April pollinating various kinds of fruit trees
such as plums, peaches, pears, cherries
and apples.
We use bees to help fertilize seeds,
especially for cherries.
Yet, here in Japan, we people do
pollination works manually besides our
use of the bees.
April thinning out peach flowers.
half of the flowers will be thinned out.
After pollination works, we do thinning
flowers.
April thinning out apple flowers
May thinning out apples when they are still very
small in order to produce bigger and tastier
apples
April Weeding & mowing
May thinning out peaches when they are still very
small.
Half of peaches will be thinned out when they
are still small.
in order to produce bigger and tastier
peaches
May thinning out plums when they are still very
small in order to produce bigger and tastier
plums
May mowing & weeding with machines or tools not to let weeds absorb fertilized nurishments under the soil, especially
around each tree
May watering
May putting the signs advertising our frui picking
on the main streets
June We place a pair of two sheets of paper
around each fruit when they
reach proper size. We do that mostly for
peaches, pears, nectarines, apples and
bunches of grapes In order to protect our crops from bugs,
damage by strong winds or tyhoons.
Furthermore, we can give our fruit a lot
more color if we keep inside this specially
made paper for a few months.
June thinning out grapes in order to produce bigger and tastier
grapes
June watering
June harvest of cherries
June cherry picking
June mowing & weeding with machines or tools
June harvest of plums and peaches
July tearing off paper covering the fruit Removing the paper exposes the fruit is the
sun to give it more color.
July spreading special nylon paper called "multi "
and putting it on the ground under each peach tree to give the fruit more color With this method, we can increase the
fruit's exposure to the sun and improve the
colour.
July pruning useless shoots and branches of each
peach tree In order to give crops more nutrition while
giving them sunshine, we try to keep some
space between the branches. This work
about a week before harvest comes.
July harvest of peaches and plums
July putting steel supports under the branches of
each tree of peaches and plums Before harvest comes, the fruit tends to
swell quickly.
We need to put steel support under the
branches so that they don't break under
the weight of the fruit.
July mowing and weeding
July watering
July covering the gape vines with nets to protect them from birds, especially
crows
July harvest of peaches
July harvest of plums
July peach & plums' picking
August prunning useless shoots and branches of each
peach tree
harvesting peaches and plums In order give crops more nutrition while
giving them sunshine, we try to keep some
space between the branches. This work
comes about a week before harvest
August putting steel support under the apples'
branches to prevent them breaking.
August mowing and weeding
August harvest of grapes and plums
August grape picking
plum picking
peach picking
August watering
September taking "multis"out of the ground
September taking steel support out of the peach and plum
trees
September spreading special nylon paper called "multi "
on the ground under each apple tree to expose
the fruit to more sunshine and to give fruit
more colour.
September putting out the signs of our apple picking
business on the main streets
September tearing off paper covering apples to expose them to the sun For Yoko, Oorin
and Shin-sekai varieties.
September covering apple orchard s with nets to protect them out of wild birds
September spreading manure
September mowing & weeding
September harvest of grapes
grape picking
September harvest of pears
pear picking
September watering
October tearing off papers covering apples to give them
color out of sunshine For the variety of Fuji apples
October spreading special nylon paper called "multi "and
putting on the ground under each apple tree to
give more color to the fruit.
October harvest of apples
apple picking
October harvest of grapes
grape picking
October mowing & weeding
November harvest of apples
apple picking
December harvest of apples
apple picking
December taking steel supports out of the peach and plum
trees
December taking "multis"out of the ground
December taking nets out of the apple orchards
December Pruning branches of fruit trees
December collecting branches and shoots of fruit trees
after trimming works in the orchards
December putting dry straw around each cherry tree to protect trees from freezing
December taking the apple picking signs down
December to January pruning & trimming branches and extra shoots
December to January spreading manure
Anglais: Courant
Japonais: Courant
We have several houses. I bought one of them for volunteers in 2011. It was just a old storage house originally but I hired lots of professional carpenters, glazier man, painter, electric man and let them remodel the house to be a mini-dorm and installed two shower rooms, mini-kitchen, two toilets, a washroom, two washing machines, a fredge, a microwave, an airconditioner. We have four bed rooms downstairs and in each room, I bought a bunkbed so,that means eight people can stay on the first floor and besides that, we have two more Japanese tatami rooms upstairs where mostly ladies stay. I bought and installed lots of other furnitures and electric items also. I prepared 15 bikes for volunteers. So, to commute between volunteers’
house and ourfarms, you can take one of them. This is one of the best accommodations for volunteers, I believe. The location is VERY nice. It is located on the field area, surrounded by lots of high mountains including
Mt. Fuji, Yatsugatake Range, Southern Alps of Japan. In front of this house, we have a canal called “Tokushima Canal” along the avenue of Sakura trees
(cherry blossom trees) and it goes on for 2.7 kilometers long. Tokushima Canal was created during 1600s. It is one of the historical monuments in this local area. Mr. Tokushima, the guy from Tokugawa government came over
to rescue local farmers and they all worked hard to create this canal
for bringing enough water to grow rice in this region.
(For your use of internet)
For your use of internet, I installed Wifi for volunteers at our house
before, but in January, 2017, additionally, I installed another wifi
at the dorm where our volunteers stay.
This way, you can access to internet a lot easier than before.
On your days off, you can visit our local library where there are two PCs
to use for internet. That is a very tiny library but located within walking distance.
There are actually two more spots where you can use internet.
There are several nice trekking courses in this area if you like to do hiking.
Also, you can visit Kofu, the capital city of Yamanashi Prefecture in about 30 min.
by local bus.
If you want to go to onsen, hot spring, there are so many of them, about 500 in Yamanashi.
In just 5 min by car, there is a very nice local onsen, If you want to go, I can take you there.
Accès Internet
Accès Internet limité
Nous avons des animaux
Nous sommes fumeurs
Familles bienvenues
Plus de 2
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
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