Drying it out on the racks, "hasakake" that we cut and put up.
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
harvesting
This is the guy we bought it from, Mr. Hiuchi, testing out the machine. He spent hours trying to get it through the whole paddy, but we gave up. It was too muddy. Next year we'll have to dig some ditches around the perimeter to drain it better.
partially harvested
We decided to harvest about a week early, and good thing. The weather had been pretty good, so the ground was somewhat dried out. It was too wet in most places to use the binder on all of it , though. The rest was harvested by hand.
preharvest
This is a shot of the rice just before being harvested. It's getting a little yellow, but would like to have left it longer.
with monkey damage
This is a shot of the whole paddy. You can see how much of has been knocked down by the monkeys. The fence is more for boars than monkeys. They just use it like a jungle gym.
monkey damage
This is a closeup of some the damage the monkeys did to the rice before it was harvested.
rice sprouts in trays
Rice is first sprouted in trays of small pots with one or two seeds in each pot. Then we just pop out the sprouts and stick them in the mud.
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