HOW
Small Farm Initiatives and Dreams.
From British to Japan standards.
We are engaged in grazing pigs on small farms.
Our motto is
"We make what we want to eat.“
"Creating a farm that we want to show our children“
"Collaboration with Local Communities"
They can feed straw on the soil, move freely, and reduce stress by managing the number of animals appropriately.
This is
where we started.
We do not use concentrated compound feed as much as possible, and we naturally breed pigs by taking advantage of their
natural abilities to grow larger.
Medical care at pig farms in Japan is usually preventive medicine and emphasizes the use of antibiotics and hormones
to prevent illness in advance. There is no emphasis on restoring.
Our way of raising and thinking about veterinary medicine is based on increasing autoimmunity in nature, exercising
well, and making the body less prone to illness and injury.
When a child becomes ill or injured, we work with a veterinarian to use the minimum necessary drugs such as
antibiotics as a treatment medical treatment, and recover while observing individual characteristics.
We place great importance on it.
The efforts and dreams of a small farm.
What we produce is a rich time and space to spend with animals.
"Let's provide food that we want to eat, something that is really safe and secure."
"Let's create a farm where children will want to raise cows, sheep, chickens, and pigs in the future!"
"It would be great if we could work together with the community to create a flow of workers and create employment and revitalize it."
The water on the farm is blessed with natural spring water, and the water temperature is constant from the severe cold
season of -20°C to the summer day above 35°C.
You can drink whenever you want, and take as many mud baths as you want.
It is an environment that can be used freely so that pigs can demonstrate their natural abilities, such as regulating
their body temperature in the hot summer and dropping parasites.
The feed is a by-product such as non-standard from neighboring field farmers, bonito flakes from a soba shop, okara
from making tofu, whey from making cheese,
Egg shells produced during confectionery making are fermented, self-blended, and fed as feed.
Rather than "raising livestock" by using old wisdom and scrap materials without having large tractors and other
machinery that are not needed, "Help livestock grow.“
Based on this philosophy, let's come into contact with livestock and support each other to enrich our lives.
I hope that the idea of farmers' standards centered on nature and animals will spread to the younger generation in the
future I'm dreaming about building a farm.
Driving force and origin
Thoughts on my daughters and my experience as a former Self-Defense Force.
This is where the “creation of a small farm” began.
Two daughters, each with a chronic illness.
In the wake of my daughter‘s illness, I decided to quit my beloved Self-Defense Forces and follow the path of a
self-employed farmer, “I want to create a place where my children can go home.”
For 29 years, I have been working in the “field” of the Ground Self-Defense Force’s front-line unit, the infantry
Regiment. During that time, I have experienced “extreme” situations many times through disaster dispatch such as the
Hanshin-Awaji and East Japan Earthquakes and ranger education, and I have become keenly aware of the depth and
importance of the relationship between “body and spirit” and “food”.
While in the Self-Defense Forces, I worked as a soldier and as a professional to “build my body”
In addition, as a commander, I have been working to strengthen the unit with a focus on training and health
management according to the characteristics of each member.
For about 30 years, I have devoted my life to national defense and to the Self-Defense Forces.
I want to make use of my experience in the Self-Defense Forces and devote my life to the sake of my children.
Starting with my daughters‘ “I want to cure their illnesses,” “I want to alleviate their pain,” and “I want to make
them smile,” I became interested in “foods that are good for the body,” and I wanted to create a farm in a relaxed
nature like the English countryside where I had traveled a long time ago and “show it to my children.”
After training and touring many farms such as dairy farmers, pig farms, mountain grazing farms, cotton sheep farms,
and beef cattle farmers such as Japanese black beef and Angus cattle, I was fortunate enough to come across Tokachi
Hata Ranch while searching for the shape I wanted to do for about a year.
After retiring as a professor at Hokkaido University and opening a nomadic barn for about 10 years, I decided to
pursue a career in grazing pigs because I sympathized with the natural grazing style of pig farming and Dr. Hata’s
way of thinking.
“I want to make delicious and healthy food and pass it on to my daughters.”
Cows and sheep graze in the vast meadow, pigs dig in the dirt and play in the mud, and chickens run around the yard
I want to create such a farm.
“Creating a farm that we want to show our children”
Thoughts on my daughters and my experience as a former Self-Defense Force officer It is the driving force of
Morimasa Store and the origin of farm development.