Ichijodani Asakura Mizunoeki Experience Farm
Fukui, Fukui, Japan · Operator: 福井市（道の駅一乗谷あさくら水の駅）
Overview
Ichijodani Asakura Mizunoeki, opened by Fukui City as a farming-experience facility in 2010. Through its experience farm and biotope, families and schoolchildren learn about food and farming via rice planting, vegetable growing, and nature observation.
Citizen participation
Families and local elementary schoolchildren take part in rice-planting and vegetable-growing field experiences. Children feel the importance of farming and the joy of harvest, and can observe ecosystems in the biotope.
Operating model
A farming-experience facility and roadside station developed by Fukui City, with an experience farm, biotope, direct sales, and a cafe, providing public food-education experiences for families and schools.
Impact
It has become a hub for food education and nature observation for local children and families, used to nurture interest in and gratitude for food through farming experience and the biotope.
Land tenure
An experience farm within a public facility developed and owned by Fukui City.
Crops
- rice
- vegetables
Scale
ふれあい情報館、芝生広場、水車小屋、体験農園、ビオトープを備える。平成22年（2010年）農業体験施設として開設、平成27年に道の駅化。
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