From vegetable mail order to the sixth processing

Jul 31, 2022

Enjoying agriculture

Even when I had no other business, I was able to drop by Etie's place and experience this for myself.

This means that everyone at Ethie Agricultural Products enjoys farming.

For example, Akihiro-san, the representative, has recently become obsessed with colorful vegetables, and showed us colorful carrots in red, yellow, cream, and purple. He also grows colorful vegetables such as Swiss chard and mustard greens in the greenhouse, and is constantly trying new vegetables to increase the number of varieties he cultivates.

Taro like washed

It's not just the Etie family who enjoys farming; the employees are enjoying it too. As I struggled to separate the baby and baby taro from the mother taro and carefully remove the soil from the taro by hand, the mother worked briskly next to me and happily taught me how to do it.

"People often ask me, did you wash them?" she said with a very proud look on her face, and the taro her mother had grown was truly beautiful.

The deliciousness of vegetables

We also had steamed taro with the skin on as a snack. Just a little salt added a lot of flavor and sweetness, and the chewy texture was delicious.

Of course, I also sampled a variety of other vegetables.

The red turnip, which is eaten in a salad called Momonsuke, is juicy and overflowing with juice, and tastes just like a peach. Every time I took a bite, I was soothed by its gentle sweetness.

Even the okra that had grown too large and was left alone in the field was still soft and crunchy when eaten raw. Not only that, but the vegetables that Echie grows, even the leaves of root vegetables such as carrots and radishes, are a treat.

Delicious! is fun

Vegetables grown with a lot of pesticides and chemical fertilizers are prone to damage to the leaves, so when people who know the taste of organic vegetables visit, they first try the leaves and are impressed. There is a clear difference in taste between familiar and unfamiliar vegetables. After experiencing the joy of farming by helping with the work, the next thing I was able to experience at Ethie Agricultural Products was the deliciousness of the vegetables.