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5.0
Masumoto examines his family's history farming near Fresno. His immigrant grandparents rented land and were interred during World War 2. His father purchased land as an adult, and Masumoto still farms that land, and still has most of the vines and peach trees his father planted. He discusses the strong Japanese community he grew up in, and how it has slowly shrunk as the immigrants have died and so many of the third generation have moved to cities, including his brother and sister.
As a young man he went to college and then to Japan, where he took an intensive language course and then lived with his great uncle for some time, helping him with his farm of rice and buckwheat. Upon returning home he decided he wanted to farm, and that he was interested in organic methods. When he wrote this book, he was raising his own two kids on his farm, with his father still there to help.
This book is over 20 years old now, and I wonder what his own kids are now doing. Is either interested in continuing the tradition?
As a young man he went to college and then to Japan, where he took an intensive language course and then lived with his great uncle for some time, helping him with his farm of rice and buckwheat. Upon returning home he decided he wanted to farm, and that he was interested in organic methods. When he wrote this book, he was raising his own two kids on his farm, with his father still there to help.
This book is over 20 years old now, and I wonder what his own kids are now doing. Is either interested in continuing the tradition?
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