Looking forward to your support!
Ecovillage started new season with a lot ofconcerns because two veteran staffs would leave
here. But we fortunately have new staffs, who arevery motivated & gifted, and we have spent fulfilled
season with satisfying success on everything;vegetable farming, raising animals, events, training
camp, and, hosting student groups. We feel happy tohave meals with a lot of smiles & laughs. We alsofeel very thankful to Ecovillage members for great
support. We hope & expect you all to keep
supporting us next year.

Ads for Ecovillage members 2020
Become members & support us, would you?
We are supported by foundation and donation from Ecevillage members.
Become a “regular member”, or two “support members”, you will get a bottleof sparkling wine 2019♪
Let us know when you want it sent via mail.

Regular member 1share 10,000 円（you have a vote for general meeting）

Support member 1share 5,000 円
・Yucho Bank
【Account character】 19070 【Account number】38886511【Account name】

Ads for Ecovillage Ambassador 2020トクヒ）ホッカイドウエコビレッジスイシンプロジェクト

For Ecovillage Ambassadors, we will expect you tospread our idea via SNS, & we then will send agiftboxes with luxurious products. We are looking
for friends who share our idea and heartful products.

・If you don’t have a Yucho bank account, take◆Gold members (¥100,000)
You’ll get: 3 giftboxes a year with heartful products,
10 bottles of sparkling wine with order-made label,and 1night tour in Yoich winery.
◆Silver members (¥50,000)
You’ll get: 3 giftboxes a year with heartfulproducts, 500g of Ecovillage sheep meat, andEcovillage trial staying ticket.
◆Bronze members (¥30,000)
You’ll get: 3 giftboxes a yearwith heartful products (Sparklingwine, juice, ketchup, herb tea,deserts etc.)

transfer form, you’ll have discount on its fee.
【口座番号】 02700-9-85080【口座名義】 北海道エコビレッジプロジェクト

・Hokuyo Bank

VOL.４０2019．Dec【Account number】宮の森支店 普通 4031861【Account name】トクヒ）ホッカイドウエコビレッジスイシンプロジェクト

Access Info
【Yoichi Ecovillage】
1863 Nobori cho, Yoichi cho＊Take public bus from JR
Yoichi station to “Mongaku”
bus stop. About 5min walk from thebus stop.

【Tel／Fax】
0135‐22‐6666【EMAIL】
y.ecocollege@gmail.com【Official Web cite】
http://ecovillage.greenwebs.net/

Creation/Publication
Nonprofit organization Hokkaido Ecovilalge Promotion Project
Sapporo Office：Room303, 2-1-1 Chuo-ku, Sapporo-shi（HEPP: Hokkaido Eco-village Promotion Project）
http://ecovillage.greenwebs.net/

+Winter Event Info

Autumn Activity Report

Harvest Wine Grapes & Wine Preparation
We’d harvested 1 ton+ of grapes this year, which wasabout twice as much as we did last year. Thanks to thegood weather in summer & helpfulness of Wine Club
members, students, & volunteers. On 9/28, weenjoyed preparing grapes & listening to stories ofprocess to make wine by Konishi san (the owner ofNobori Wine Brewery). The sparkling wine will beready in next February. We also asked 10R Winery tobrew red wine, will be released in a year. Excited!

■Let’s have KhorKhog together!
Environmentally friendly wastewater purification
seminarWe’ve been having seminar series wide-open for publicwith the hand-made wastewater purification system
which has been upgraded.
We had found, workshop on 4thOct, it successfully removed
nitrogen & phosphorus out of
waste water, which meant it
improved!

JICA trainees visit

Winter Apple Festival Yoich
On Sunday 8th December, we had the event about
Yoichi apple, where the apple farmers, pastry chefs,
consumers gathered around & more than 50 of people
had better understanding about yoichi apple.
Sonoko Fukae (a food writer) & Toshiaki Asano (aprinciple of Yoichi seafood product museum) gave theexplanation & historical stories about
HINOKOROMO apple. We enjoyed having nice meal& desert made from the apple.
*HINOKOROMO (Cloth of Scarlet) is one of theoldest apple kinds. It had been grown in Yoichi til 100years ago, but most of apple farmers shifted to growsweeter apples. We believe the apple & its storyneed to be suc-ceeded.
This event was assisted
by Taiyo group public interest foundation subsidy.

The 5 trainees from Cameroon, Solomon islands &Tunisia visited Ecovillage, & discuss sustainability and“pros and cons” of rapid economic growth. We saw thepictures of cities in Hokkaido from 100 years to now.
The trainees were very
interested in our projects &activities, we therefore hope
they will be able to find thealternative developments intheir communities. It also wasa good discussion for us toconsider “what’s sustainable”
again.

Hosting school trip students
13~17-year-old students visited Ecovillage for school
trip from Tokyo, Kanagawa, & Osaka. We hosted 60
students total from 12 different schools. They helped us
with taking care of vegetables & animals, making
tomato sauce, & removing grass around wine grape
trees. They have said, “I got
the question about why theproducts are sold so cheap,”“Although I hated tomatoes,
these ecovillage tomatoes
made me love them!” We hope
they would keep what they
did here in their mind, and remember them someday.

“KhorKhog” is one of the most popular Mongolian
traditional meals. People gave it the best reputation forthis simple & impressive meal. We will have the meal
with the sheep meat we raised. Let’s enjoy the genuine
Mongolian taste & culture!
Date: 25th Saturday, January 10am~3pm
Place: Yoichi Ecovillage Seminar House
Capacity: 15 people
Fee: ¥3,200 for regular entrance, ¥2,700 for Sheepowners & students (Kids can participate)■Ecovillage Seminar 2020 in Tokyo
We will have a seminar to introduce our activities inTokyo. Everyone will be welcome; people who havewanted to live in countryside community lifestyle,
who are vaguely interested in what ecovillage is, &who want to figure out the alternative lifestyle &workstyle.
The Ecovillage sparkling wine will show up. Mr.
Ryota Akai, a wine journalist who has won the 1st
prize at the event of Japan Sommelier Association,
will give the description. You don’t want to miss it!
Date: 15th Saturday, February 2020 3pm~5pm
Place:Restaurant AL KENTRE (Nitta building
Floor10 8-2-1 Ginza, Tokyo)
Capacity: 30 people
Fee: ¥2,000 (including 1st drink)

Volunteer Introduction
Robin, from Belgium, has come 4 years before. He has
graduated from architecture school & worked at studio,
so he showed us his best building technique on chicken
poultry & public bus stop.
He desires to work in Japan
someday. Yes, you will! We
are already looking forward
to working together!