TITLE: Farmer's Improvisation :As a fruit farmer and breeder

This series was conceived by me as a fruit farmer, breeder, and photographer. The reason why I made this is just an improvisation that I want to do something different in my daily farming work. This is a delicate work that requires the experience and intuition of a farmer. I think it was because I wanted to make grapes that were impossible to breed as a breeder. I wanted to have a dialogue with a fruit as a person. I also wanted to create a simple object using fruit.

In Japan, fruit is often treated as a gift or luxury item, with high quality and high added value. This is partly due to the small area of farmland per farmer. Which means that farmers have to devote a lot of labor to each fruit. The cultivation of high quality varieties also requires a great deal of skill.
In addition, national and local agricultural agencies and individual breeders are developing new varieties with various goals such as high sugar content, large fruit size, and environmental resistance. （Some of the best and highest quality fruit varieties are therefore often illegally exported. ）

These are improvisations by me, a breeder, farmer, and photographer.

AUTHOR: Masumi Shiohara (Japan)

Masumi Shiohara was born in 1974 in Nagano, Japan. He worked at a micro-machining company as a development engineer. After leaving the company, he took over the management of the family orchard from his parents and is now running a farm.