Pool seedling greenhouse ready for rice planting/ Photo by Jun Igarashi (c)FASHION HEADLINE

The Satoyama landscape, where nature and humans coexist, is the origin of Japan, and is located in Isumi City, Chiba Prefecture, not far from the city./ Photo by Jun Igarashi (c)FASHION HEADLINE

Natural farming rice fields are filled with plenty of water/ Photo by Jun Igarashi (c)FASHION HEADLINE

Natural farming rice fields are filled with plenty of water/ Photo by Jun Igarashi (c)FASHION HEADLINE

Shinichi Tsurubuchi, the owner of Tsurukame Farm, showed us around the farm. His overalls, printed with "NO RICE NO LIFE," are from his friend's T-shirt brand, "Kome T."/ Photo by Jun Igarashi (c)FASHION HEADLINE

The lush green seedlings are ready to be planted. In addition to raising seedlings in the pool, this year they tried growing seedlings in the open field without using a greenhouse./ Photo by Jun Igarashi (c)FASHION HEADLINE

The packaging is stamped with the "Tsurukame" logo, which captures the rich natural features of Isumi, an area where large birds such as cranes and swans fly in and sea turtles come to lay their eggs. Brown rice, which is delicious even when cold, is perf/ Photo by Jun Igarashi (c)FASHION HEADLINE

Frogs and earthworms are my friends. After catching and observing them, I release them./ Photo by Jun Igarashi (c)FASHION HEADLINE

His wife, Nobuko, runs the farm with Shinichi while raising their two-year-old son. After traveling around the world for about a year, they visited Isu and fell in love with its nature, and began thinking about moving there before they even got married./ Photo by Jun Igarashi (c)FASHION HEADLINE

Rice crackers made from "Tsurukame rice"/ Photo by Jun Igarashi (c)FASHION HEADLINE