The crops wont harvest themselves! This is Real Rural Japan!

[@StarFishx137]

love and respect from Gujarat India its nice video showing real rural life and culture

[@fpcfootball60]

Neat video, has the wildlife learned to come to the compost apples and get drunk on the fermentation? Thanks for sharing!

[@RealRuralJapan]

Never thought of that!

[@MsMothball]

Loved the Jiji fan service

[@scruffy2629]

Beauty spot :)

[@murrayobrien9192]

That's insanely labour intensive! I don't know but I doubt that happens in Australian apple orchards! I guess it's partly a scale thing. Those Japanese orchards and farms in general are so small.

[@RealRuralJapan]

Aussie apples are good for…… Cooking 😂

[@yarghhargh9345]

Depends on the farm. If you go to Bilpin they do it by hand but I assume most places just use a treeshaker and/or backpackers.

[@yarghhargh9345]

Regardless, its nowhere the level of care and detail of these ladies

[@dannybitz5015]

I thought the point of a cat cafe was so that you could interact with and pet the cats? I’m curious if people would be interested in the “look but don’t touch” model. 🤔

[@RealRuralJapan]

Best of both worlds. Eat in peace and then go outside if you want to do this. You obviously have only heard of the city cat cafes where they can't do this. These cat cafes are horrible as the cats aren't out in their natural environment being cats. This model is how it should be done.

[@dannybitz5015]

@@RealRuralJapan You’re right about the Urban cat cafes. This is the first time I’ve heard about a rural one. I’ve often wondered about the appeal of being mobbed by cats while trying to eat and all that hair floating around. 😂

[@RealRuralJapan]

@@dannybitz5015 That is why the food is terrible in cat cafes it's just a slapped together sandwich or something. They will get freshly cooked food and cats in their natural environment when they come here.

[@SawdustSoftwareSiliconChippy]

The attention to detail, is uneconomic, for most commercial orchards (in Australia). Damaged apples for compost? What about making apple pie or cider? With the view of the city, perhaps you could try some 'special night time openings', especially if/when fireworks can be viewed from the dinning aria.

[@RealRuralJapan]

Aussie consumers don't like to pay for quality they are driven only by price. That is why it is uneconomic. An Aussie won't pay the equivalent of their hours average wage for a small bunch of grapes. This is why the produce is poor in Australia because the consumer doesn't care about quality. Good enough and cheap is all they want and they expect.

[@SawdustSoftwareSiliconChippy]

@@RealRuralJapan I agree. Though there are several factors at play. First off, supermarkets literally have a stranglehold on the supply chain (small players are squeezed out), and only want what looks good on their shelves. This leads into the second issue, lack of choice, and consumer ignorance (it's easy to fool people with good marketing/image/packaging, if people don't know what good/natural food looks like [who grows there own food now?]). Laziness/Fatigue; It's all at the convenience of supermarkets (Coles/Woolies), when going to the smaller operators, is too much effort. Price is a big issue, especially with the current economic pressures of inflation (rents/mortgages, etc). Although I remember watching a documentary series set in Sydney, each episode being a different decade (1900;s, 1910's, 1920's, etc), when food was far more expensive (in relative terms), than it is, today. When I was young (1970's), my parents had a garden in the back yard. A rare sight today! So, is food really expensive, or people too lazy/ignorant to grow their own? 🤔

[@RealRuralJapan]

I spent 20 years in kitchens in OZ with some at the very high end and Aussies will pay anything for a bottle of wine or their alcohol of choice but when it comes to the food they put in their mouths they are miserable with their cash. During the so-called cost of living crisis bottle shops have been making record profits. Alcohol is more treasured than good food and bottle shop attendants more respected than guys like me who slaved away in the hot kitchens for them. Australia has no food culture they have a drinking culture.

[@SawdustSoftwareSiliconChippy]

@@RealRuralJapan Alcohol: Unfortunately, that's true. And I believe it's a hang-over (suitable pun) from the "six o'clock swill" culture. Food: I red an article some years back, that most children today, believed milk and food, comes from a factory. Sadly, with the ultra processed junk that's on shop and home shelves, that belief has come to fruition, and our health has declined as a result. No money in healthy people, supplements and medical intervention, has better profits. :-/

[@RealRuralJapan]

@@SawdustSoftwareSiliconChippy A bit of that which came from the religious running the place back then. BYO to a licensed restaurant still happens even now and that's low class.