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Toshiaki with his wife Kazue and their three (adult) children Ayumi, Tamiko and Kazuki run a small 2 hectare completely organic tea and orange farm just outside the town of Fujieda in the Prefecture of Shizuoka about 200 kms south east of Tokyo. This amazing interview conducted with one of the pioneers of the global organic farming movement was conducted in January 2011, just before the Fukushima quake his Japan. In this first of two videos, with the help of his farmer daughter Ayumi, Toshiaki shares his story of why and how he became and organic farmer and of some of the amazing insights he gained from this unique experience.