What do you say an apple can be hot to? It is said that at a high-end restaurant in Tokyo, its signature dish is Kimura's apple soup. Because there are too many people who want to eat this dish, you have to make a reservation a year in advance, otherwise you won't be able to eat it.
Kimura is an ordinary farmer in Japan. It is such an ordinary farmer who spends more than ten years in his four orchards to compete with himself. His deeds touched the gangsters, and he also sent three younger brothers to find their home, just to tell him, can you have time to invite you to a drink?
Kimura was born in 1949, and by all accounts, he should be seventy-three years old this year. He was born in Hamio Prefecture, Japan, and his ancestors have lived in the countryside for generations, and he has been a farmer for three generations.
The concept of the local farmer: children read, delve into learning, a single hobby is OK, can not be taken too seriously.
If you really want to go to college in the future, you will have to grow apples with one less person in your family. Not to mention, when he goes to college and can sell the land to pay the tuition fees for this child, the family will lose a lot.
When Kimura Elementary School was in elementary school, his grandfather did not allow him to read books and write homework at home, so he waited for his grandfather to fall asleep and got up to write his homework.
But when Kimura was a child, he was particularly interested in mathematics, nature, machinery, including painting, and he liked what kind of toys, planes, and trains he liked, and when he got it in his hand, it would soon become a pile of parts, and the clock and radio at home let him dismantle it over and over again.
Since childhood, he has been a mischievous mischief. None of the things in his hand were intact. Once he's hooked on something, he can't see anything else.
Because he is the elder of the family, he does not have to inherit the family business, nor is he qualified to inherit the paddy fields and orchards in the family. So he had to go to the city to work.
Later, he married his middle school classmate Michiko, who was twenty-two years old, and he went to the woman's house.
After he became a door-to-door son-in-law, he worked very hard to keep his mother's family from being looked down upon. In addition to growing apples, he also grows corn.
He was obsessed with improving productivity, so he bought a tractor imported from England.
He bought tractors to open up the land, to grow a variety of corn, and the purpose of his corn was because of apples, because apple trees love to be sick, and they were surrounded by all kinds of bugs. In addition to tree bugs, there are also fine bacteria, mold, and germs.
In the surrounding countryside, these pests and diseases are privately farmed. However, his wife Michiko would lie down on the bed for a week every time she would beat the nong-medicine. He was upset with his wife, so he wanted to grow more corn and less apples.
But there was a little story in the middle of this, and he was quite touched, and every time he went to pick corn, he found that there were raccoons in the cornfield. Raccoons are a field predator that is a little larger than rats, and Murakami has placed a mouse trap.
Once caught a small raccoon.
Originally he didn't want to hurt it, he wanted to go to the side and try to let it go, but he found a big raccoon standing not far away, presumably the mother of the little raccoon, it had been waiting, and Kimura let the raccoon go.
From this, Kimura thought of a question, why did these two raccoons come to corn to eat corn? Is it because humans want to take possession of everything for themselves, so that they do not eat, they have to steal something to eat?
Since then, when he was harvesting corn, those who had bad character used corn that was not full of grains, collected it and put it on the side of the cornfield, and as a result, no raccoons went to the cornfield to steal it.
He suddenly discovered a way for man to live in harmony with nature, man and animal. Kimura originally loved to learn and study well. Once, when he went to buy a book, he used a wooden stick to fetch a book, and he dropped another book called "Natural Magic"
This book was very enlightening to him.
Why do farmers have to sprinkle medicine privately? What happens if you don't sprinkle medicine?
He began his own research. Their family has a total of four apple orchards, and first they take out one piece that does not play agriculture-medicine at all, and the remaining three pieces are less agricultural-medicine.
As a result, the apple tree blossoms in year D, and then it begins to bear fruit, and everything is normal.
However, there are pests and diseases in May, but they are not very serious.
In July, the leaves begin to turn yellow and grow speckled.
The leaves fell in July. His apple tree suffered from a disease called spot-spotted defoliation, which was caused by eugenic bacteria.
Kimura looked at the little apples of these dead trees and felt a blow in his heart.
However, he did not give up, knowing that cultivation and agro-medicine were not a simple matter. He tried to replace agricultural medicine with food, and saw if it worked.
Isn't there a true-fungus? Use garlic and vinegar to kill bacteria. In the third year, the orchard did not play agro-medicine, so that more agro-medicine alternatives could be tried.
In the first three years, the apple trees in the four orchards of Kimura had grown spots and dots, and the apple harvest in the apple yard was almost zero, not only the real bacteria, but even the insects came.
He and his wife, father-in-law, and mother-in-law had been catching insects in the orchard from morning to night, and a tree could catch three bags full of them, and they couldn't catch them at all.
At the same time, the next-door neighbors also complained, because their insects did not use agricultural medicine, so that other people's orchards also suffered.
During this time, Kimura tried out a lot of new insect-proof materials, brown sugar, chili peppers, water, monosodium glutamate, starch, pepper, salt, vegetarian, a whole bunch of things.
However, the harvest was still not harvested. Kimura's daughter even wrote an essay like this: My father grows apples, but I have never eaten an apple.
Their family's life grew poorer and poorer, so poor that they could not afford to buy school supplies for their children, and they did not have enough to eat.
Relatives and friends all thought that he was also very stupid, and called him a fool behind his back.
Even his biological parents cut him off, thinking that his tossing and turning was too humiliating.
Kimura became more and more abnormal, often chattering alone at the apple tree. Everyone wondered if there was something wrong with Kimura's brain. Looking at his wife, children, and father-in-law, his mother-in-law supported himself without complaint or regret, but he did not achieve anything.
Kimura felt himself dragging down his family. So he climbed up the mountain with a rope, and when he was about to hang himself, he saw a tree in the distance with its branches, as if it were an apple tree, but it was not an apple tree, but an oak tree.
Kimura wondered why this tree was thriving in this place. And his apple tree had withered. It must be related to the soil, he found that the soil under the oak tree was very soft, and the smell of this soil was full of this soil, so he took this soil to his home to study.
He tossed and turned on the cliff again, and found that the growth of such soil was necessarily related to the grass.
It is this grass that continues to take root and sprout, so that its soil attracts a lot of earthworms, and the manure under the earthworms makes the soil very fertile.
He wondered if he used this method to cultivate his apple trees and make the soil environment of his apple trees better, would there be a harvest? Thinking of this, he began to be moved.
He used it for eleven years, the apple blossomed, bore fruit, and the fruit was very sweet, Kimura shed tears, after eleven years of suffering, he finally succeeded. Developed and cultivated this kind of natural apple without fertilizer.
He became famous, many reporters came to interview him, and the neighbors around him were proud of him.
A dream is a thing that is pretentious when it is spoken, it is a seed born in the dark, only by breaking through the soil, growing up, and one day blossoming, can it be justified and let everyone know. Until then, there is no choice but to persevere.
@Danye Piaofei said
We see this from kimura's eleven-year planting of fertilizer-free apples
1, as an ordinary person, a small person on the road to success is difficult
The key to the ups and downs of people's fate is that we must have a tenacious heart that does not yield to fate, on the road of struggle
It is tormented and lonely, even full of helplessness and bitterness.
If you are defeated by a single failure, there is no successful future.
2. Man and nature should live in harmony
When we destroy nature, nature will also punish human beings in its own way. Only when we live in harmony with nature and do not destroy the natural nature of nature can we coexist with nature.
3. The understanding and support of the family is a strong backing
For eleven years, Kimura's wife and children, father-in-law and mother-in-law have been supporting Muraki to study without complaint or regret.
Lu Yao said in "Ordinary World": "In fact, each of us lives a world, even Z ordinary people have to fight for the world in which he lives."
Deeply
The adult world is not as easy as anyone!
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