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As I've biked or walked around Takamatsu all year, I have enjoyed watching the gardens bloom and the fields get planted, then grow and produce the crops that show up in all the local markets. In the last few weeks, I've especially enjoyed watching the rice get harvested. I actually grew rice in science class up in Tokyo with my students, so I knew the process. But it was fun watching it in action in the fields.

I loved the smell of the rice which was a new smell to me. However, the smell of the freshly harvested fields was deja vu and immediately brought back memories of the smell of fresh hay from my Grandparents barn. I would play in the hay lofts searching for eggs from the chickens!

Even though the process of harvesting the rice is all the same, the methods were very different. Some local farmers brought in small harvesting combines to harvest. Others, like this farmer, did it ALL by hand! I saw him cut, bundle and thrash!! Amazing!! And I am sure he's been doing it his whole life and would have it no other way! Kudos!!!