Date: Nov.23th(Thu. and National holiday)~Nov.26th(Sun.),2017  
Place: Imajyou Minamiechizenn-machi, Fukui-ken 

Activity:  
We cooperate the first work camp with the team of “Minamiechizen-chiikiokosi-kyouryokutai” and “Imajyou-kyuutamamuratei-katsuyou-project”.  
“Tsurushigaki (smoking dried persimmon)” is a special local product of Imajyou area.  Though it’s one of local traditional culture, it is in decreasing trend because lack of manpower.  There has also a depopulation and aging problem as the other country side places.  
Mr. Miura, one of rural-urban migration from Aichi-ken, had started up a company of persimmon from processing to promotion.  It’s the good season to harvest persimmons of his fields now.  This is the first harvest in there.  He works from pruning to shipment with local people.  He wants the works of “Tsurushigaki” for the cornerstone of maintenance forests and local revitalization.  And he thinks that works and interacts during the work camp will be one of the opportunities for them.  He plans to spend nights with participants.  You may have many talks with him during long nights in autumn.  

Work: 
1)    Processing of “Tsurushigaki” (harvest, peeling, and drying of persimmons) 
2)    Assist work of smoking (throw logs on the fire to smoke)  
3)    Have a meeting for local production using special local products

Schedule: 
<The 1st day> 
11:00 Meeting at Imajyou-Staion, Moving, Self-introduction, and Lunch
13:30 Walk around the site, and Work (Processing)
17:00 Finish working, Bathing, and Supper
23:00 Throw logs on the fire to smoking persimmons

<The 2nd and 3rd day> 
~08:00 Breakfast
08:00 Work (Harvest) 
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Work (Processing and maintenance of forests) 
18:00 Finish working, Bathing, and Supper
23:00 Throw logs on the fire to smoke 

<The last day> 
08:00 Work (Harvest)
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Clean up the accommodation place
13:30 Meeting
15:30 Breaking up at the station

*Work time and tasks will be changed by weather conditions and the progress.  
*Please contact us in advance if you should not make time or place of the meeting and breaking up.  

Accommodation: 
Accommodation place will be ICHINOSE-SANSOU.  
*You need to have a shared room divided by sex.  
*The facility is equipped daily necessities as Futon and laundry space.  
*You need to use the bathroom by turns because the size is household use.  


<What is Tsurushigaki>  
Persimmons have been popular to us so long time in Japan.  You can know how popular persimmons are as the prover says.  Have you ever heard the prover “Momokuri-sannen, Kaki-hachinen (It often takes time to bear the fruit of one’s actions, planted peach and chestnut seeds take three years to bear fruit, persimmons take eight.)”?  
We have two kinds of persimmons, “Ama-gaki” and “Shibu-gaki”, in Japan.  You can eat “Ama-gaki” straight as it is.  But “Shibu-gaki” are too astringent to eat as it is.  Wild species of persimmons are “Shibu-gaki” species.  “Ama-gaki” which is present in only Japan is mutation of “Shibu-gaki”.  
Ancient people thought hard how to process “Shibu-gaki” to eatable.  One of the ways is “Tsurushigaki” as a way of Imajyou.  But Imajyou is different from other dried persimmons because of smoking.  Smoking dry bring out the taste more deeply.  

Please check more from below.  
Events
URL: https://www.facebook.com/events/359812981110706/
Imajyou-kyuutamamuratei-katsuyou-project 
URL: https://www.facebook.com/tamamuraya/

Meeting time: Nov.23th(Thu. And National holiday),2017 11:00
*Please contact us when you want to participate only a part.   

Meeting place: Imajyou-Station on JR-Hokuriku-Line  
*You are welcome with your own car.  

Breaking up: Nov. 26th(Sun.),2017 around 15:30  

Belongings: Suitable clothes for work in which you may get dirt, Warm outfits, A pair of long boots or solid shoes, A pair of gloves for work, An apron, A kerchief, A set for spend a night, My-bottle, Lunch for the first day, A foodstuff for “NABE (casserole)”, and a BIG SMILE
*A kerchief will be used covering your hair.  

Price: NICE member \5000, Non-member \6000
*Price includes all meals except the first day’s lunch, accommodation fee, transportation fee during work camp, insurance premiums.  
*Price will be \3000 (NICE member), \3500 (Non-member) when you participate only a part.  
*You need to pay \600 each when you use Onsen spa.   

Application: To. Mizuguchi hokuriku@nice1.gr.jp
Title: Application for Weekend Work Camp in Fukui 11/23-11/26
1)Name, 2)Telephone number, 3)E-mail address, 4)Address,5) Age, 6)Transportation, 7)NICE member or non-member

Capacity: 5 people 
Due date: Nov.19th(Sun.),2017  

Participation of parents-children: Not approve

Correspondence in English: Possible