Find the reception, offices, and the director’s room in the Admin Building and the 2nd floor of the Farm Shop.
We sell our farm products, books, and handicrafts from graduates’ countries.
You can park your car in front of the Admin Building and the Koinonia House.
All members come together in Koinonia House to celebrate meals and fellowship.
Participants gather in the main classroom for lectures. The ARI library has media about agriculture, society, and other topics in both English and Japanese.
The chapel was up-cycled from a 100 years old Japanese farmhouse and serves the community as a place for prayer, worship, counseling, and meditation.
We use organic farming methods free of artificial pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers. Strict animal hygiene regulations require us to put several measures in place throughout the year, such as fences, lime, and roofing to prevent the spread of diseases from wild animals.
ARI’s kitchen caters for up to 100 people at a time. Students, staff, and volunteers are involved in preparing meals, making the kitchen a space to study, build relationships, and serve others.
A food processing facility for preserving, cooking, and storing food products such as cookies and jam. There is also space and equipment for butchering small animals.
With its own classroom and tool shed, the Farm Shop is the hub to plan farm work. It is also used to store and process the harvest. Heavy farm machinery is stored in and around.
ARI has 2.5ha of chemical-free farm land for almost 100 types of crops and vegetables. Community members manage these fields together to learn and to grow their daily food for self-sufficiency.
Inside and outside the campus, we grow Japanese rice. We research various methods to improve our practice of organic cultivation, for example using small animals for weeding and fertilizing.
Like other elements of the ARI campus, the fish ponds integrate landscape, natural resources and recycling for a multifunctional and waste-free system. We raise fish for eating and farming.
This is where our pigs live and grow up! Participants practice pig-rearing with different methods, as well as production of pig manure-based biogas and fertilizer.
The poultry facilities include soft-floor pens and brooding houses for chicks. We keep over 400 chickens, producing over 80,000 eggs and 1t of meat every year.
Goats are raised for training and for milk—more than 200l each year—, meat, and manure. They graze outside in the grass during the day.
A recycle and building center with machinery, materials, and tools for welding and carpentry, open to all community members.
We prepare livestock feed by hand and machine, always striving to improve the quality and sustainability of the feed.
Participants and volunteers live in separate men and women’s dormitories. They have common community spaces, kitchens, shower rooms, and washing machines. The dormitories are wifi-free zones.
Nasu Seminar House hosts large groups as well as visiting individuals and families in a variety of Japanese and Western-style rooms. It has a large meeting room, foyer, garden, and kitchen. The NSH is located near the campus and owned by the Student Christian Fellowship.
Several staff members and their families live on campus. There is one shared house and three family houses.
Tsukinukizawa 442-1
Tochigi, Nasushiobara
329-2703 JAPAN
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