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She visits the herb garden of Noriko, an old friend who helps her with the garden work. A certified instructor of floral designs, she makes seasonal wreaths from wild herbs so that more people can appreciate the beauty of wild flowers. British-born Venetia lives in Nature-rich Ohara, Kyoto Prefecture. With the soundless cold hovering over the plants in her garden, she enjoys meditation.
Venetia makes a spicy mulled wine and ties pomanders to the Christmas tree with ribbons. She also invites an embroiderer friend around to help with the Christmas decorations. We're sorry, there are no episodes available to watch on TV in the next 14 days.
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The hiking course leads to a view of Nara Basin from the top of Mt. Wakakusa. She goes to the studio of a young sculptor who uses his skills honed from carving Buddhist works to create his own art pieces. Strand of documentaries on wildlife and the environment. An award-winning series that celebrates the many wonders of nature with dramatic wildlife stories from... A fascinating look at the life and work of some of Hollywood's most iconic filmmakers.
Venetia's gardening now consists of preparations for the coming spring. She imagines the colorful floral array of spring while planting the tulip bulbs. She was surprised last year by the deliciousness of some ginger sweets a local farmer gave her, and grew her own ginger this year. She asks the local farmer around to teach her how to preserve ginger in sugar and is highly satisfied with the taste. At the morning market, which she goes every week, she is delighted by the flavor of the yuba .
Comforted by Wood
During a walk, she stops by her favorite café and appreciates homemade sweets with seasonal fruit and tea. She has been a herb expert since childhood and has edited a book about edible wild herbs. They look for wild herbs together in the garden and cook pizza flavored with them. Venetia travels to the Iga region of Mie Prefecture. A friend here has worked long and hard to prepare the soil to plant herbs, and Venetia visits the herb garden where the sage is in full bloom. She also meets a potter, Yoshitaka Hasu, for the first time in 30 years.
Hasu fires his earthenware after spending months and years to mature the Iga clay. His distinctive products are designed for serving food and Venetia savors his creations together with his home cooking. The kind hospitality of her old friends fills her with a sense of well-being. Venetia lives in Ohara, Kyoto Prefecture, appreciating each season. Worried about her failing eyesight, her half-sister Lulu comes to Japan for the first time.
The Arrival of Summer
English-born Venetia organizes an open garden for the first time in a long time. On Day 1, she entertains her pals with a blend of lemon verbena and English tea. Day 2 is all excitement with children in the neighborhood looking for sweets hidden in her garden.
An admirer of Japanese traditional chests of drawers, or tansu, she takes a trip to Iwate Prefecture and visits a tansu workshop. The elaborate craftsmanship dating from the Edo era impresses her. In Tono City, she visits a couple living like she does and tries cooking a local delicacy, hittsumi with them. Autumn is taking hold in the Ohara district of Kyoto.
The Power of Family
She admires how her friend, who also grows organic cotton, appreciates nature's blessings we eat and wear. At Ei, known for its incense production, the Koh-shi, responsible for how the incense smells, shows her the centuries-old method. A keeper of indigenous honeybees shows her the "nectar-supplying forest" he spent 7 years growing. Venetia lives among her herbs in the Ohara district of Kyoto Prefecture but comes originally from Britain. She visited Ireland, where her mother spent her final years, in the summer of 2010 and met up with her younger siblings for the first time in a long while. Venetia lives surrounded by her herbs in the mountain community of Ohara in Kyoto Prefecture but comes from an aristocratic family in England.
Venetia left the UK feeling ill at ease in aristocratic society. They reminisce about their mother over bread & butter pudding, their childhood favorite. At Venetia's friends' herb garden, Lulu shows interest in how herbs are grown in an herb-unfriendly humid climate just like Ireland's. Venetia enjoys a handcrafted life in Ohara, Kyoto Prefecture. On one mild day, she takes some long-unused items to an antique shop. When she comes home, her husband is working on rose fences.
She also spends some relaxing time with her son's family. The flora and fauna stay in hiding during the cold of winter in Ohara, Kyoto Prefecture. Venetia has bought some winter vegetables and miso paste, though, at a refurbished morning market, and a farmer teaches her how to make her own miso. She also enjoys tea brewed with pickled plums and thyme. Share Venetia Stanley-Smith's seasonal living in rural Kyoto, as she introduces us to local people, produce, cooking and crafts.
A visit to her homeland in the summer of 2010 was also an opportunity to look back on her life so far. Venetia Stanley-Smith has been living in Kyoto's Ohara district for a decade. Cameras follow the amazing wildlife and human castaways found on three of the world's most exotic tropical islands. She heads to Nara City, where she sees an old friend. She walks through Kasuga Shrine's sacred forest along a mountain trail that was once a busy trading route.
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She arranges flowers from her garden and makes apple compote with her daughter. Another fall delicacy she finds at a morning market is mackerel sushi, with Ohara historically known for this fish. She decides to have her long-broken toy bus fixed so that her grandchildren can play with it. She befriends the couple running a woodworking shop she visited and digs up potatoes in their garden. During her summer trip to Okinawa Prefecture, Venetia visits a coffee farm in the mountains, with increasingly more farmers growing coffee in this area.
Venetia is a real herbologist with more than 150 useful herbs in her Ohara, Kyoto garden. She gives a public reading in English about the wisdom and efficacy of herbs. You can edit and/or update or delete your cookie settings each time you visit our site.
