Marumaru Farm
Vegetables and fruits packed with the whole blessings of mountains and water — grown by Kannai Pond where fireflies dance.
Marumaru Farm is a small farm by Kannai Pond in Nishi-ueda-cho, southern Takamatsu City, Kagawa Prefecture. A basin surrounded by mountains — with large day-night temperature differences and nationally-long sunshine hours — this land is an ideal environment for making delicious agricultural products. Performing soil-making lavishly using mountain and sea blessings — in-house bamboo compost, bamboo and wood charcoal, fish and shellfish, and self-cultured yeast — carefully raising seasonal "stars": broccoli, corn, baby corn, sweet potatoes, Kagawa Hontaka chili pepper, gold kiwi, chestnuts, and the original brand rice "Nikomaru." Through harvest-day shipping of morning-picked vegetables and seasonal limited gift sets — delivering agricultural products that let you taste even the firefly-dancing pondside landscape.
Why We Love It
The sweetness of "morning-picked corn" is shocking! Vegetables grown in a basin with clear water where fireflies dance and large day-night temperature differences — the flavor is intense. Commitment to soil-making like in-house bamboo compost is no joke. The moment you open the box, the field aroma comes — please experience vegetables and fruits brimming with life force.
PROFILE About the Company / Workshop
Marumaru Farm's base — by Kannai Pond — in Nishi-ueda-cho, Takamatsu City, Kagawa Prefecture. A quiet basin surrounded by mountains — fireflies dance at night, mist hangs in the morning — a somehow nostalgic rural landscape spreads. Here — with large day-night temperature differences and good sunshine — long known as land where delicious vegetables and fruits are harvested.
While leveraging such an environment — Marumaru Farm reconsiders cultivation from "soil-making." Crushing bamboo cut from the mountains finely into compost — mixing in bamboo charcoal and wood charcoal baked at local charcoal kilns — combining minerals from crushed fish and shellfish, and self-cultured yeast — arranging an environment where microbes in the soil can work energetically. Soil that's fluffy and well-draining — yet also has water retention and fertilizer retention — becomes the foundation for raising healthy crops with firmly-rooted growth.
Main crops growing in the fields — broccoli, corn, baby corn, sweet potatoes, Kagawa Hontaka chili, gold kiwi, chestnuts, and the original brand rice "Nikomaru." All crops are cultivated while imagining "the state most delicious to eat at the home dining table" — from variety selection to planting timing, fertilization design, and post-harvest temperature management.
At the online store — line up seasonal lineups: "morning-picked" and "harvest-day shipping" products of broccoli and corn harvested in the morning and shipped the same day; sweet potatoes whose sweetness is drawn out by an aging period; and assortments of further-ripened gold kiwi and chestnuts. Many products are reservation sales with quantity limits — an expression of Marumaru Farm's stance of "not pushing the fields — carefully growing only what's needed."
On SNS — also transmitting field scenery, harvest timing, how crops grow, and the firefly-dancing landscape around Kannai Pond. Not simply delivering agricultural products as "objects" — aiming for farm-making where you can feel the whole natural environment, handwork, and seasonal changes behind it. Through Marumaru Farm's vegetables and fruits — if daily dining tables become slightly richer and become opportunities to feel connection with nature — with that thought in heart — continuing to face the fields today as well.
The Kagawa Nishi-ueda terroir nurtured by mountain-surrounded basin and Kannai Pond
Where Marumaru Farm is — Nishi-ueda-cho, southern Takamatsu City, Kagawa Prefecture. By Kannai Pond — where fireflies live — a small basin surrounded by mountains. With large day-night temperature differences and nationally-long sunshine hours — this region is an environment suited for making vegetables and fruits with good sugar content and storage. Reading "land individuality" — including elevation, terrain, and wind flow — discerning cultivation locations and harvest timing for each crop.
Bamboo, charcoal, fish, shellfish, yeast — soil-making leveraging mountain and sea blessings
Marumaru Farm's soil-making begins by balancing mountain and sea blessings: in-house compost using bamboo cut from the mountains, bamboo and wood charcoal baked at local charcoal kilns, minerals using fish and shellfish as raw materials, and self-cultured yeast. By arranging an environment where microbes in the soil can work energetically — without overly relying on chemical fertilizers — growing into vegetables and fruits with good rooting and rich flavor.
Broccoli, corn, baby corn, sweet potatoes... relay of seasonal stars
From early spring to early summer — broccoli, corn, and baby corn; in autumn — aged sweet potatoes; in winter — gold kiwi and chestnuts — Marumaru Farm's fields change leading roles by season. Finely adjusting variety, planting timing, top dressing timing, and harvest timing for each crop — delivering without missing the most delicious moment of the season. Cherishing the season's rhythm — so repeat customers can look forward to "this season has come again this year."
"Harvest-day shipping" of morning-picked broccoli and reservation-based seasonal limited sales
Broccoli — one of the signature products — is harvested in the cool morning hours — and "harvest-day shipping" — boxing and shipping the same day — is the basis. Corn, baby corn, sweet potatoes, gold kiwi, and chestnuts are also mostly reservation sales with quantity limits. Cherishing "growing only what's needed — and delivering at the most delicious timing." Through advance notices on SNS and online stores — proposing shopping experiences that don't miss the season.
A multi-item farm also handling Kagawa Hontaka chili and original rice "Nikomaru"
Beyond vegetables and fruits — also challenging multi-item cultivation: fresh and dry "Kagawa Hontaka" — called the phantom chili — and the original brand rice "Marumaru Farm Nikomaru." Kagawa Hontaka — with good balance of spiciness and aroma — also drawing attention from cooking-loving people and restaurants. For rice — selecting varieties suited to the land — and while paying attention to drying and storage methods — aiming for both grain definition and sweetness.