Niseko Green Farm organic asparagus are being served in J-Sekka's Spring salad with shrimp and creamy herb dressing. The J-Sekka Deli is open all summer and uses and sells all local and Hokkaido produce. Not only good for your taste buds, but also for the environment! http://www.j-sekka.com/

If only frogs ate mice....Lazing in the shade of the remnant jalapeno plants, hoping for a tasty bug to pass by. Lots of jalapeno seedlings got eaten by mice. I guess they like to add some spice to their life too.

With the forecast of a cool summer, i thought it be a good idea to help our heat loving eggplants a bit and keep their feet nice and warm. Now the long term forecast has changed to warmer and drier than usual. So now the plastic mulch serves well to preserve moisture and suppress weeds. Maybe not the most ideal organic way, but it certainly works well.

Our little black friend here, wakes up early after winter and with an appetite. Rather than spraying it to a certain death, we sow some clover that also comes up early and so the flea beetles have something else to feed on than our precious asparagus. You can recognize it's offspring as those little things that jump around your crops, like fleas. Floating row cover works well as prevention.

The green house is almost done. We had the plastic almost on top of the the whole structure when it got blown away by the wind. It was a bit of a mission to get it back on and left us with some cuts here and there. Now we got 525 m2 for some heat loving veggies.