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Yugawara Yume Farm

A community-led nonprofit initiative restoring idle farmland, growing food with children and neighbors, and welcoming new helpers.

Inquiries are handled on Yume Farm's own website.

Members and friends of Yugawara Yume Farm gathered beside a timber farm structure

Yugawara Yume Farm grows out of social-contribution work carried out through vegetable and fruit cultivation at Ozawa Farm. Its organizers describe it as a nonprofit organization planned for formation in 2026, rather than an already completed institution.

The name comes from the group’s base near Yugawara Sports Park, Yume Park, and nearby farmland. The project connects cultivation with a wider idea of local participation: people working, learning, and sharing a harvest together.

In 2025, the group borrowed idle fields without charge, planted and harvested crops collectively, and worked with local children’s community cafeterias, children in residential care, and their staff. Produce was provided to those facilities and shared among participants.

Its stated aims extend beyond a single field. They include restoring and using idle farmland, protecting the environment, supporting research and development in agriculture and fisheries, strengthening food culture and tourism, contributing to children’s food education, and supporting adult and older residents’ health.

The organizers also intend to work across Yugawara and neighboring communities such as Manazuru, in cooperation with schools, community groups, public bodies, agricultural cooperatives, and industry–academia partners. Events and additional initiatives are planned as the organization develops.

Because the NPO and its program are still developing, activity dates, participation arrangements, and support needs may change. Use Yume Farm’s official inquiry form to ask about joining, membership, partnerships, practical help, or donations; Yugawara Club does not receive or relay those messages.

Two people preparing parallel planting rows in a cultivated field bordered by trees

Reusing idle farmland

Putting idle farmland back to work.

Work begins by clearing unused fields, preparing rows, planting crops, tending them, and returning for the harvest. Each season brings another piece of local farmland back into use.

A large group working together across a sloping field

A shared workday

They grow food and share the harvest.

Yume Farm's 2025 activities brought participants together with children's community cafeterias, children in residential care, and their support staff. The harvest was provided to those facilities and shared among the people who took part.

In the media

See a farm day in Yugawara.

AKIYAZ follows a day in the fields, from working the soil to harvesting citrus, and introduces the people doing the work.

Produced by: AKIYAZ ↗

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Take part

Ways to get involved.

  1. 01Ask about joining future farm activities or membership
  2. 02Connect a school or community group
  3. 03Offer tools, skills, materials, or practical support
  4. 04Ask how to make a donation