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Sustainable Agricultural Tour: Mushroom Picking
Mushroom Harvesting Experience at a Historic Farm
This farm has been cultivating the land in Yokohama for more than 500 years. Depending on the season, you can enjoy picking Shiitake or Kikurage (wood ear mushrooms) inside the farm. After harvesting, you can grill the mushrooms you picked and enjoy them with the farm’s special shiitake powder salt.
You can also take part in an Onigiri (rice ball) making experience using seaweed grown in the local coastal area. In addition, you can interact with rare beetles such as the Hercules beetle inside an air-raid shelter that was hand-dug by ancestors about 100 years ago.
Sustainability Solutions
♦The electricity used for mushroom cultivation comes from solar panels located inside the farm, and the electricity purchased is also green electricity. After mushroom cultivation is complete, spent fungus beds are fermented to reuse as compost, which is spread on fields to create delicious vegetables, contributing to a sustainable cycle.
♦Spent fungus beds are also reused as nutrient-rich substrate for beetle larvae. Furthermore, by cultivating moringa, which has a very high carbon dioxide adsorption capacity and is also highly nutritious, we are working to combat global warming.
【Tour Duration】: from 40 mins. to 2 hours
【Expected number of participants】: 30 people
