OSAKA –
Families and guests are flocking to a farm in Minoh, Osaka Prefecture, to take pleasure in autumn chestnut selecting, with this 12 months’s harvest producing smaller however notably candy chestnuts attributable to a scarcity of rainfall.
Chestnut selecting started on September 13 at Nakamasaen, a hands-on farm in Minoh, the place guests can collect freshly fallen chestnuts through the autumn harvest season.
Although this 12 months’s restricted rainfall has resulted in smaller chestnuts, the farm says they’re candy and have agency, well-filled kernels.
Families and different guests gathered on the farm on September 23, the ultimate day of the vacation interval, rigorously utilizing tongs to gather chestnuts that had fallen to the bottom.
“Since it’s autumn, I really wanted to come,” one customer mentioned. “There were lots of beautiful, glossy chestnuts.”
Asked how they deliberate to eat their harvest, the customer advised making chestnut rice, saying that including a bit of salt would assist carry out the sweetness.
Chestnut selecting will proceed by November 3, with guests in a position to take house their harvest for 1,800 yen per basket.
Source: YOMIURI