to Adam Sutherland

Hello.
I have some more questions about that TOGE people visitted Grizedale.

Q1.Where did TOGE people work ? Did they work in the Lawson Park of your
stronghold ?
Q2.How is the spread of your field ? According to your website, Lowson Park
has an area 15 acres. Do you use all area in this park?

I'm glad if you would answer my quesutions.
And thank you for your kind.

from Eimei Ishii

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Dear Ishii-san

Toge people worked at the Lawson Park farm making 3 new Tanbos (rice paddies) and clearing forest areas

They also collected mountain shoots and ran a cooking workshop for local chefs. The best resturants in the area attended including the famous Sharrow Bay Hotel and Michelin 2 star l'Enclume

On the last day of thier work programme they made a resturant for the village of Coniston in the famous Ruskin Institute. Many local people came (90) and the special food of Toge was very much enjoyed by all. Many people tried Warabi (Braken) for the first time and some started to consider it as a possible crop. The donations (250 pounds) from the visitors were given to the funds for the Coniston Water Festival www.conistonwaterfestival.org.uk a village festival on the lake

Lawson Park farm has 2 areas of land one is 15 acres of land that has not been farmed for 50 years. This is the area the village mainly worked on we are bring the whole area back into use. The other area of 5 acres is all gardens and the village built a bridge now called the 'Toge Bridge'. Later in the year we are hoping to bring a builder from Matsudai to make a new resturant in the gardens where we will make seasonal food including the mountain vegetables introduced by the villagers of Toge. We hope we will have further relationship with the people of Toge as all these projects develop.

All the best

Adam

Posted by Adam Sutherland
Saturday, May 19, 2007 at 10:33 GMT