- Hyogo Agri Life Center
Visitors can learn the importance of food and agriculture through farming experiences and interactive activities. Programs offered include a “Parent-Child Farming Experience” for parents and children to learn how to plant, harvest and cook rice, and how to cultivate tamba kurodaizu (black soybeans), a specialty of Hyogo Prefecture; a “Vegetable Cultivation Experience” for participants to learn the basics of vegetable cultivation through fun activities; and “Agricultural Product Proceeding” to learn how to process local produce.
“Cucina Kande” is a nickname for our processing facility. The Local
Agricultural Processing Group, which is organized by local farmers, produces
processed agricultural products using locally grown food ingredients and also
holds events for visitors to experience food processing.
The agricultural equipment exhibition warehouse displays various equipment used for farming in the past and today.
Agri Life School offers a variety of courses so that participants can learn knowledge and skills necessary for farming, according to their objectives, such as on the basics of crop cultivation, agricultural techniques, and agriproduct processing.
We run a direct sales store and a cafe restaurant that serves dishes using fresh agricultural products grown at Hyogo Agri Life Center or in local regions.
A stylish cafe restaurant in the Hyogo Agri Life Center. It offers lunches prepared with locally grown fresh vegetables and fruits. In the spacious cafe, visitors can enjoy menu items ranging from pizzas baked with woodchips that are produced from locally grown trees, and popular pasta and salads, to deserts with seasonal fruit. There is also an open terrace seating where visitors can enjoy a barbecue of beef from neighboring pasture-raised cows. Please enjoy a healthy menu that brings out the delicious flavors of ingredients.
The name of the cafe comes from “go” (“five” in Japanese), which is associated with “Hyogo Gokoku” (the five old nations of Hyogo) and “gokokuhojo” (bountiful harvests), and “country,” referring to “countryside” and “home.” It evokes an image of the pastoral landscape in this neighborhood.
The store sells fresh vegetables and fruits produced by local farmers (Agri Life Local Practice Group Direct Sales Sub-Committee [including the Agri School “Working in Agriculture” course]) as well as vegetables grown at the Hyogo Agri Life Center. Processed foods such as freshly baked bread and confectionary produced at the processing facility, Cucina Kande, are also sold fresh. We look forward to your visit.
