Posted on 15. May, 2012 by pmlydon in News
This week we filmed in Osaka, Nara, and Fukuoka, and each day was full of fresh local food. In Nara, our amazing Japanese interpreter and I spent an extended weekend withYoshikazu Kawaguchi, a natural farmer who runs a free monthly farming class, including free practice farming plots for students; about 300 students were in attendance [...]
Posted on 11. May, 2012 by pmlydon in News
We had our first meeting with a Japanese natural farmer today, and it was an amazing one. Yoshikazu Kawaguchi has written several books and is a “natural farming” icon in Japan. Today, he invited us to his home near Nara, Japan, where we talked over tea and the most juicy, crisp, and sweet peas I [...]
Posted on 04. May, 2012 by pmlydon in News
We visited the “Blues Guesthouse” in the Segeomjeong neighborhood of Seoul a few days back after hearing about a rooftop vegetable garden they are starting. It’s very early spring here, so the plants are just starting to come up, but it was nice to have a short morning chat with the guesthouse owner, Mina, who [...]
Posted on 03. May, 2012 by pmlydon in News
With one of the farmers suddenly too busy to meet with us, a broken camera body, and malfunctioning lens, it hasn’t been all roses the past week out here. Luckily, we’ve been able to get some other interviews and Suhee knew a very kind (and inexpensive) camera repair man who was able to fix the [...]
Posted on 26. Apr, 2012 by pmlydon in News
It’s a particularly windy afternoon in Seoul, but other than that very sunny, pleasant, and bustling with activity along the streets and along the sidewalks. Suddenly, undulating along with the steady gusts of wind, a long and deep siren sounds. It’s the kind of sound you can’t quite place at first, but for some reason or another [...]
Posted on 25. Apr, 2012 by pmlydon in News
Took an afternoon to visit Namdaemun Market today to capture footage of this amazingly huge, amazingly busy outdoor marketplace. On the way back, I curiously stopped in at the grocery store in Shinsegae, one of the major department stores in Seoul (along with Hyundai and Lotte). By most accounts, it is similar to a small [...]
Posted on 23. Apr, 2012 by pmlydon in News
Our sleeping experience on the farm in Hongcheon was a unique one in that we were in a very traditional house. Many Koreans sleep on the floor, and this night provided no exception, but the truly unique thing was in how the heating is provided. I’ve seen a few homes in the U.S. which are [...]
Posted on 23. Apr, 2012 by pmlydon in News
Just returned to Seoul this afternoon from a beautiful mountainside farm in Hongcheon, a few hours outside of Seoul (by train and bus). The owner of the farm, Gaeguri, is not only a natural farmer, but an author on the topic as well. He was also one of the first in South Korea to take up Natural [...]
Posted on 21. Apr, 2012 by pmlydon in News
This morning offered a good opportunity to capture a bit of early-morning Seoul, but not for long. It’s been all rain and wind since 10am or so. Not necessarily a bad thing as I’ve been doing some reading and planning for our farm stays. Tomorrow we’ll do the first overnight farm stay. I’ll leave you [...]
Posted on 19. Apr, 2012 by pmlydon in News
After dinner in Seoul’s “Chinatown” and a coffee at local shop “Ism,” Suhee showed me to the room which she is very kindly letting me use. The air here in Seoul was cool, and very very still last night, and in the older Dongnimmun neighborhood where i am staying, it was almost eerily quiet too, at [...]
© 2012 Patrick M. Lydon. All Rights Reserved. |
site design by
