Date: May 6th(Sat.)~May 7th(Sun.),2017
Place: Samegawa-mura, Fukushima-ken

Work and Activity:
Let’s grow rice at Higashishirakawa-gun where is in the southern area in Fukusima-ken!  The site places in the most southern part of the Abukuma Mountain Range.  There is one of farming tough areas between plains and mountains.  There has depopulation and aging society problem, as a result, there has many fallow paddy fields and uncultivated farmlands. 
We have started up the project to use some fallow paddy fields, and plant and grow rice through a year. 
We will have totally 4 Weekend Work Camp in this year.  We plant rice in May, maintain and mow in July, harvest rice in October, have a food sampling party and process “Amazake (a sweet, hot beverage made from fermented rice or sake lees)” in December.  We also plan to farm in fields, to maintain mountain forests, to enjoy country life to the full. 

Unexpectedly this Tohoku-area is near Tokyo.  It takes only 3 hours from Tokyo by expressway bus.  The site is included in Tohoku-area, but you can get there only 3 hours from Tokyo to the nearest interchange by expressway bus.  We are sure that you can be relaxed and refreshed in great nature during overnight trip on your weekend!

You may concern radioactive contamination.  We have examined the site of Work Camp and all ingredients for radioactive.  We use only safe stuff which meet national safety standards.  Please join us with security and safety feeling from radioactive contamination. 

This program will have other participants besides NICE.  You can meet overseas student studying in Japan from China, senior generation people, families, and so on. 
We are welcome people from foreign countries very much.  Why don’t you come and feel Japanese country life and traditional culture of Japan?

Work:
・Rice planting
・Soybean sowing
・Vegetable sowing and planting
・Tractor tillage hands-on course
・Maintenance of seedling
・Fermentation compost making
*The works will be changed by weather conditions.

Entertain:
・”Tempura“ of edible wild plant
・”Mochitsuki (rice-cake making)”
・Spa near the site for bathing (bathing fee \350 each is need to pay by yourself)

*This program is granted by “Fukusima-ken-chiikisousei-sougousien-jigyou (support service program)”.  This program aims for interact between country and city side which is managed by NPO Abukuma NSN. 

Meeting: May 6th(Sat.),2017 11:00 
*We recommend for using of expressway bus named “Iwaki-gou” if you will come from Tokyo side.  You can take the bus leaving at 8:30 from Tokyo-Station-yaesu-minamiguchi bus stop.  You need to reserve a bus ticket in advance.  The bus will get Iwaki-nakoso-interchange, our meeting place, at 10:56. 
*Please let us know if you want to use the other transportation (for example, by train or by your own car). 

Breaking up: May 7th(Sun.),2017 around 14:30
*Please make reservation of the bus leaving at 14:37 for back.  You can select arriving place as Ayase-station at 16:52, Asakusa-station at 17:12, Tokyo-station-nihonbashiguchi at 17:33. 

Belongings:
Suitable clothes in which you may get dirt (long sleeve T-shirts, a pair of long pants), Changing clothes, Toiletries, Towel, A cap, A pair of gloves for work, A pair of long boots (if you have ones), Receipt of the expressway bus fee, A seal

Price:
NICE members \3500, Non-members \4000
*Price includes accommodation fee and 4 meals.

Application: To Daigo Inose 
mail.abukumansnet(a)gmail.com (Please change (a) to @ when you send.)
1)Name, 2)Gender, 3)Age, 4)Contact address, 5)NICE member or Non-member, 6)Transportation, 7)Memo

Memo:
Capacity: 8 people
Due date: May 2nd(Tue.),2017 19:00

Participation of parents-children: Approve

Correspondence in English: Potentially possible (under depend on participants English ability)