On Monday, my friend Ayako and Gel, a friend from here on base, took a trip to a strawberry farm in the Yamanashi Perfecture. This is northwest of us and in the moountains. The day was gorgeous, though windy, but the wind blew all of the junk out of of the air, so it was on of the clearest days I have seen here. This area is known as the "fruit basin " of Japan. the whole area is devoted to growing fruit...grapes, plums, cherries, peaches and of course, strawberries. the strawberries were the only fruit ready to pick this early in the year. The pictures will show that the strawberries are grown in pipes hanging from the ceiling of a hot house. The plants are placed in holes in plastic which covers the soil in the tubes. them, as the fruit forms, the berries actually hang down and never really touch the soil. For a fee yo can pick and eat all you can hold, then for another small fee you can have them packed to take home. They are the yummiest, sweetest strawberries I have ever tasted.
On Monday, my friend Ayako and Gel, a friend from here on base, took a trip to a strawberry farm in the Yamanashi Perfecture. This is northwest of us and in the moountains. The day was gorgeous, though windy, but the wind blew all of the junk out of of the air, so it was on of the clearest days I have seen here. This area is known as the "fruit basin " of Japan. the whole area is devoted to growing fruit...grapes, plums, cherries, peaches and of course, strawberries. the strawberries were the only fruit ready to pick this early in the year. The pictures will show that the strawberries are grown in pipes hanging from the ceiling of a hot house. The plants are placed in holes in plastic which covers the soil in the tubes. them, as the fruit forms, the berries actually hang down and never really touch the soil. For a fee yo can pick and eat all you can hold, then for another small fee you can have them packed to take home. They are the yummiest, sweetest strawberries I have ever tasted.
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