Tokyo VegeFood Festa 2013

Despite the chilly, rainy weather on Sunday, the Tokyo Vegefood Festa last weekend was well attended. It just seems to expand and get more diverse each year. Beginning in 2006 as the “Tokyo International Vegefood Cuture Fair” at Yoyogi Park, it's a sign of its maturity that it doesn't need "international" in its title anymore as it is now a matter of course. There were about 100 food stands and shops offering various vegetarian foods and environmentally friendly products. The highlight for me was meeting a British Japanese farmer/ restaurateur from Tateyama, Chiba who farms rice without tilling the soil and grows green papaya. Regrettably, I didn't see any of my students there, but I did meet some old friends.