{"id":474,"date":"2011-09-13T12:44:51","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T03:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uncannyterrain.com\/blog\/?p=474"},"modified":"2011-09-13T12:44:51","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T03:44:51","slug":"sugeno-fights-for-his-fukushima-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/uncannyterrain.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/13\/sugeno-fights-for-his-fukushima-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Sugeno fights for his Fukushima farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sugeno fights for his Fukushima farm\u3000\u7a32\u3078\u306e\u653e\u5c04\u80fd\u6c5a\u67d3\u79fb\u884c\u3092\u9632\u3050\uff01\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AogizW2vo20?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Seiju Sugeno is an organic farmer in Towa, Nihonmatsu, 50 km from the failed Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The Abukuma Mountains partly shielded his rice fields from contamination, but runoff is an ongoing threat. Chairman of the Fukushima Organic Farmers Network, Sugeno works aggressively to clean his land and prevent his crops from absorbing radioactive cesium. He will work to reduce the contamination year by year, rigorously testing his yield and reporting any contamination he finds. His 23-year-old daughter Mizuho works with him. He hopes she can build a sustainable life for herself here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uncannyterrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_22781.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/uncannyterrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_22781-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_2278\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-475\" srcset=\"http:\/\/uncannyterrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_22781-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/uncannyterrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_22781-600x400.jpg 600w, http:\/\/uncannyterrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_22781-449x300.jpg 449w, http:\/\/uncannyterrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_22781.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><em>Uncanny Terrain<\/em> is a documentary about organic farmers facing Japan&#8217;s nuclear crisis, and an online community fostering dialogue on food safety, sustainable agriculture, alternative energy and disaster response. Please keep the conversation going by <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/uncannyterrain\" target=\"_blank\">making a tax-deductible donation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sugeno fights for his Fukushima farm\u3000\u7a32\u3078\u306e\u653e\u5c04\u80fd\u6c5a\u67d3\u79fb\u884c\u3092\u9632\u3050\uff01\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AogizW2vo20?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Seiju Sugeno is an organic farmer in Towa, Nihonmatsu, 50 km from the failed Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The Abukuma Mountains partly shielded his rice fields from contamination, but runoff is an ongoing threat. Chairman of the Fukushima Organic Farmers Network, Sugeno works aggressively to clean his land and prevent his crops from absorbing radioactive cesium. He will work to reduce the contamination year by year, rigorously testing his yield and reporting any contamination he finds. His 23-year-old daughter Mizuho works with him. He hopes she can build a sustainable life for herself here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uncannyterrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_22781.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/uncannyterrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_22781-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_2278\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-475\" srcset=\"http:\/\/uncannyterrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_22781-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/uncannyterrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_22781-600x400.jpg 600w, http:\/\/uncannyterrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_22781-449x300.jpg 449w, http:\/\/uncannyterrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_22781.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><em>Uncanny Terrain<\/em> is a documentary about organic farmers facing Japan&#8217;s nuclear crisis, and an online community fostering dialogue on food safety, sustainable agriculture, alternative energy and disaster response. Please keep the conversation going by <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/uncannyterrain\" target=\"_blank\">making a tax-deductible donation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[54,327,167,16,270,98,29,6,145,17,9,248,18,19,329,11,80,7,328,14,100,99,324,12,10,40,15,325,186,326,97],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-2","tag-agriculture","tag-biofuel","tag-cesium","tag-contamination","tag-counter","tag-daiichi","tag-decontaminate","tag-documentary","tag-farm","tag-food","tag-fukushima","tag-geiger","tag-kajino","tag-koziarski","tag-measurement","tag-meltdown","tag-natural","tag-nuclear","tag-oil","tag-organic","tag-plant","tag-power","tag-produce","tag-radiation","tag-reactor","tag-remediation","tag-rice","tag-sunflower","tag-sustainable","tag-svo","tag-uncanny-terrain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/uncannyterrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/uncannyterrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/uncannyterrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uncannyterrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uncannyterrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/uncannyterrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"http:\/\/uncannyterrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/uncannyterrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uncannyterrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uncannyterrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}