◯ Dates: March first - fifth, 2018
  * Partial participation acceptable.


◯ Descriptions:
Yashiro district in Himi city, Toyama, - the camp site - is surrounded by rich nature in the mountain between Toyama and Kanazawa cities.
Jinenjo, wild yam in English, is one of the famous foods in Yashiro district as well as the Himi Beef and the Low-Protein Rice.

Recently, local people are loosing their production capacity year by year, because of their ages and lack of young successor.
They organises an NPO group called “Yashiro Patrol Team” to solve their issues, and the team members and the other locals cooperate very well.
Still, people in Yashiro are struggling in decreasing population and farming field becoming wild.

You have to check it out if you are interested in...
  - Working in (wild, sometimes) nature
  - Specialised local food
  - Hokuriku area, back side of JAPAN mainland

◯ Meeting time: 12:00 p.m.(noon) on March first
  * Please let us know if it is difficult.

◯ Meeting point: Himi station (JR Himi line)
  * Coming by car acceptable.

◯ End of camp: 12:00 p.m.(noon) on March fifth


◯ Please bring: long-sleeved clothes, a cap, gloves, shoes for mountain trekking, towels, a bottle (to bring water along to work site), local food of your area (if possible), a big SMILE 😀
  * We will work in the rough area of mountain.
  Wearings and items for mountain trekking are recommendable.

◯ Participation fee: \10,000 ／ \9,500 for those with NICE paid membership

◯ Application: email
  - Attn: hokuriku@nice1.gr.jp (Miho at NICE)
  - Title: Application for HIMI Weekend Workcamp
  - Text: Please write down these items below.
  1. Name
  2. Mobile phone number
  3. Email address
  4. Your transportation to the meeting point
  (by train, by ca, etc.)
  5. Your participation (whole program, until XXth (date), from XXth, etc.)


◯ Application deadline: April 30th

◯ Acceptable number of participants: 10

◯ Main language: Himi-dialected Japanese