Yesterday we had lunch at a friend's shack in the mountains. He spends his summers up there off-the-grid. His plumbing is the river and a composting toilet. He has the outdoor bath - heated by the sun or a wood stove - that I've been dreaming of for years now, and access to enough field space for a family of three's yearly food needs. Hmmmm...
Today we spent the day helping an acquaintance with the soba (buckwheat) harvest - together with a group of soba chefs from Tokyo. They grow organic soba for a relative's restaurant, which means they need quite a large area. It would be a long, tedious job without help, but in moderation it's actually quite enjoyable.
A field big enough to grow soba for a family of three would be quite manageable. Hmmm...
Once again I've been running some numbers in my head, trying to figure out just how many hours we really need to work in a week / month / year.
