Harvesting and food education experience at Mokumoku Handmade Farm Learn “why it’s delicious” and enjoy freshly harvested vegetables even more
掲載日：2021.02.26
Mokumoku Handmade Farm offers a variety of food experience programs, including producing, processing, and selling food. Harvesting experiences, which began with the creator's desire to learn more about the food and help people become fans, are gaining popularity. Introducing the program at Mokumoku Handmade Farm where you can not only eat freshly harvested food, but also learn and have fun for everyone from adults to children!
・Enjoy the freshly harvested deliciousness that you can only experience here
- Don't just eat, you can have fun and learn why it's delicious, perfect for children's food education.
・Full of free outdoor activities that adults can enjoy together, such as crawfish fishing and raft rides.
・Not only outdoors where you can avoid the 3 Cs, but also indoors, we have taken thorough measures to prevent infectious diseases so you can enjoy your time with peace of mind.
Learn, pick, and eat delicious strawberry, blueberry, and shiitake mushroom harvesting experiences
Located in Iga City, IgaCity Prefecture, there are 12 workshops and specialty stores, 4 restaurants and cafes, experience classes, and a playground where you can enjoy nature and agriculture up close, such as rice fields and raft ponds. "Mokumoku Handmade Farm" is popular among both men and women. Recently, it has attracted attention as a place where you can enjoy nature outdoors while avoiding the Three Cs, and one of the most popular is the harvest experience program where you can experience food education while enjoying freshly harvested vegetables.
You can experience harvesting seasonal foods such as strawberries from January to the end of April, blueberries in August, and shiitake mushrooms all year round except during the summer vacation period.
The only strawberry you can harvest is "Sachinoka". It is characterized by its sweetness compared to other varieties, but it is prone to diseases and requires advanced cultivation know-how to grow, so it is not often found in supermarkets. This is an experience-based program that you can experience only at Mokumoku Handmade Farm, which has been growing Sachinoka for over 20 years with the idea of ``creating the best strawberries that can't be beat anywhere else!''
Only the ripest and ripest strawberries are served. Supermarkets often sell strawberries that are harvested before they are fully ripe, but at Mokumoku Handmade Farm, we want you to taste the most delicious strawberries, so we do not offer an all-you-can-eat option, but we carefully select only the best strawberries. The mechanism is to do so.
Not only can you just pick and eat them, but you can also have fun learning about strawberries, such as how to identify delicious strawberries and how to grow them (they can't produce fruit without bees) while listening to stories from the producers.
Blueberry picking is the most delicious August program of the year. The sweet and refreshingly sour pulp has a juicy taste that can only be expected from freshly picked fruit, and you can taste and compare the three varieties: Home Bell, Woodard, and Tif Blue. Just like picking strawberries, you can also learn how to identify delicious ripe blueberries and the characteristics of the three varieties.
Shiitake mushroom harvesting is a program that can be enjoyed all year round, except during the summer vacation period from mid-July to August. There is a mushroom farm within the park, and you can harvest and purchase as many mushrooms as you want, so there is no need to make advance reservations. The recommended seasons are spring and autumn, and the meaty shiitake mushrooms that are unique to log-grown shiitake mushrooms are characteristic. You can take it home as a souvenir to enjoy at home, but you can also enjoy it on the spot by grilling it over charcoal and sprinkling it with crunchy salt.
The harvesting experience at Mokumoku Handmade Farm is packed with ideas to help children learn why the food is delicious and to make them realize for themselves that eating is fun and agriculture is fun! Perfect for food education and free research during summer vacation.
``Crayfish fishing'' and ``Rafting'' that adults can enjoy together
The park is full of activities that you can enjoy for free. Crayfish fishing is a hidden popular spot that both adults and children are fascinated by. From May to October, you can experience it at the crayfish pond in the park, where you drop dried squid from a fishing rod into the pond and wait patiently. Once you feel the fish responding, just lift it slowly and you can easily catch the fish. Even adults who fell in love with crawfish as children can enjoy the experience as they return to their childhood.
Among the nature activities at Mokumoku Handmade Farm, the most popular is the raft experience. It is possible to experience it except in winter. Adults and children alike can row the raft by themselves and have fun as if they were the captain of the raft.
There are spots where you can take a break even if you are tired from all the activities. The Hammock Forest has 20 hammocks that adults can use for free, and it's a great place to take a nap while feeling the wind passing through the trees and listening to the chirping of the birds.
In addition to the indoor baths, Notenmoku-no-yu has a wide variety of baths, including the ``Beautiful Skin Bath'' and the ``Forest Open-air Bath'' carved out of a natural monolith, where you can slowly soothe your tired body. can. There is also a footbath at the entrance that anyone can use for free, perfect for soothing tired feet from walking around the park.
There are restaurants in four locations within the park. There's the BBQ restaurant "BuuBuu House," "Rural Restaurant Mokumoku," where you can enjoy tonkatsu and soba noodles, and "Tomato Cafe," which serves delicious strawberry parfaits and hamburgers. The most popular is the buffet restaurant "PaPa Beer Restaurant". You can enjoy homemade sausages and ham made in Mokumoku's workshop, bread, local beer, and other dishes made with plenty of seasonal vegetables in a buffet style.
There is also plenty of other content, such as the ``Relaxing Learning Farm'' where you can interact with domestic animals, pet mini pigs, and ponies, and the ``Stilts and Jumping Rope Square'' that can be enjoyed by parents and children of all ages, including grandparents. In addition, Mokumoku Handmade Farm also has accommodation facility ``OKAERI Village.''
The morning after your stay, you can help with farm work and have a dairy farm experience program.You can enter the Jersey farm, which is only open to guests, and experience the ``morning activities of a farm'' such as cleaning and feeding. can.
With thorough measures against infectious diseases, it can be used with confidence even under the coronavirus situation.
Alcohol disinfectant for hand disinfection is installed at various locations on the farm, and infectious disease prevention measures are also implemented at each facility. Considerations have been taken to ensure that guests can enjoy the event with peace of mind, such as providing gloves to wear when preparing food at the buffet and holding programs held indoors with a smaller capacity than usual. Employees' physical condition and temperature are checked daily, and all employees are working together to provide a safe and secure experience.
This handmade farm is not only delicious, but also full of features that make you feel that farming is fun. There are so many programs that you won't be able to play them all in one day.
[IganoSatoMokumokuTezukuriFarm: Basic Information]
Address: 3609 yubune IgaCity
Business hours Farm area 10:00-16:30
Closed: 2nd Wednesday of the month *See website for details
Parking lot 500 spaces
Farm area admission fee: 500 yen *Free for children under 2 years old
Phone 0595-43-0909
IganoSatoMokumokuTezukuriFarm official website
[Reservations for handmade experience classes, meals, and accommodation]
Mokumoku reservation dial: 0595-43-1489
[From Nagoya] 90 to 100 minutes by car
Approximately 15 minutes by car from Higashi-Meihan Expressway "Kameyama JCT" - Shin-Meishin Expressway "Konan IC"
[From Osaka] 90 to 100 minutes by car
Approximately 8 minutes by car from Meihan National Highway "Mibuno IC"
[From Kyoto] About 1 hour by car
Meishin Expressway "Kusatsu JCT" - Approximately 15 minutes by car from Shin-Meishin Expressway "Konan IC"
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