めぶき農房

ぜひ、田んぼに遊びにきてください。

パンフレットの一文に便乗して訪ねた畑は、山裾から離れた場所にひょっこり・こんもり現れるオアシスみたいだった。

周りの田畑から虫や草の種が引越しをしてきたんだろうかと思う程、少し土に触れてみるだけでいっぱいの生命が詰まっていることがわかる。

酒井裕行さん・紗央里さん夫婦の畑は、もう５年耕していない。

畑って耕すものじゃ… なかったらしい。

「なにもしたくない　と　いうのがある」
ふと山に目をやる紗央里さんがつぶやく。

文字で書くとびっくりするけれど、寄り添うという生命との付き合いは、これが必要でしょ？と先回りして与えてしまうことよりずっとずっと難しい。

不都合なことには、何かしなければと思うのが人の性だけれど、そうした動きが事態を悪化させることがある。どうしてそのようになったのか、原因がわからなくなるから。

ひとまず、ほっといてみること。必要なことがわかってから手を差し伸べること。

そして二人は“作るでなくて、育てる”と言って、個性と主張を伴って逞しく変わっていく作物の成り行きを見守っている。

そういえば二人の顔写真がめっきり少ない。

どんなにお話をしても、傍で歩いていても、彼らの目はずうっと土を、畑を含む環境全体の変化を追いかけていたから。

2016 7月
提供：丸瀬家、パンの店・高木
援助：めぶき農房、うおくに商店
後援：サンセイドウギャラリー

Please feel free to visit our rice paddy.

I decided to take this offer printed on the leaflet and visited their field, which was like an oasis on a hill

located away from the foot of a mountain.

I touched the soil and immediately noticed how rich with life it was.

A lot of insects and grass seeds must have migrated from nearby rice paddies and fields.

Saori and Hiroyuki Sakai had not plowed their field for five years.

Aren't fields supposed to be plowed...? According to them, not really.

”There is a part of me that does not want to do anything,“

says Saori quietly, turning her eyes to the mountains.

This appears to be a surprising statement when you write it down, but it is in fact extremely difficult to live together with lifeforms in a harmonious way,

because it would mean that we would not be able to simply think ahead and give them what they need before they do.

When there is something wrong, it is our nature to want to do something about it,

but sometimes, this makes things even worse. That is because it blurs the root cause of the issue.

Just try letting things be for the time being. Only give them a helping hand when you know what they need.

Their motto is ”grow, not produce.“ They gently watch over their vegetables

that grow with their own personality and will.

I noticed that the couple did not have many pictures of the two together.

That is because, no matter how much they talked with each other or how much they walked together,

their eyes had always been fixed on the changes in their field and the surrounding environment.

2016.JUL
Sponsored by MARUSE KE ・ Bakery Takagi
Assisted by Mebuki Farm・ Uokuni Shoten
Suppoted by Sanseido Gallery