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Ikeda family’s dream still bears fruit
August 31, 2023 by Nichi Bei News
AUBURN, Calif. — For more than half a century, travelers by the thousands have turned off Highway 80 in Auburn, Calif. to visit a rare oasis overlooking the freeway: Ikeda’s […] READ MORE
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Hikari Farms keeps the legacy of the Issei farmers alive
March 16, 2023 by Gil Asakawa, Nichi Bei News
WATSONVILLE, Calif. — Hikari Farms has faced hardships before, so Janet Nagamine, who manages the third-generation family farm in Watsonville, is optimistic that the operation will continue and even grow […] READ MORE
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Historic Rancho Palos Verdes Hatano Farm to close
March 17, 2022 by Nichi Bei News
RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. — The view from Hatano Farm is mesmerizing. Sown with flowers and edged by cacti, the 5.5-acre plot sits on a gently descending hillside above a […] READ MORE
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RABBIT RAMBLINGS: Avoiding government-induced poison
February 2, 2017 by Nichi Bei News
Well, that does it. From now on, I plan to buy mostly organic produce. I know that it will cost me a bit more, but after watching the new Rachel […] READ MORE
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Memoirist intertwines family, farming and feelings of the heart
January 1, 2017 by Nichi Bei News
CHANGING SEASON: A FATHER, A DAUGHTER, A FAMILY FARM By David Mas Masumoto with Nikiko Masumoto (Berkeley, Calif.: Heyday, 2016, 192 pp., $16, paperback) In the mid-1980s, while researching the […] READ MORE
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An Issei pioneering in the Heartland
August 4, 2011 by Nichi Bei News
NIKKEI FARMER ON THE NEBRASKA PLAINS: A MEMOIR By Rev. Hisanori Kano Introduced and edited by Tai Kreidler, and translated by Rose Yamamoto. (Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech University Press, 2010, […] READ MORE
