投稿の詳細: 大勢の助っ人　Many people come to help me.

先週から大勢の方々が房切りを
手伝ってくれています。
皆さんありがとうございます。

峰の原の福永さんは3日も続けて
来てくれました。昨日は妹の由美さんと一緒で、
自家製天然酵母パンとジャム等も差し入れて
くれました。　美味しく頂いています。
今日も行こうかと言ってくれましたが、
既に7-8人来てくれていたのでありがたく辞退
しました。でもやっぱり来てもらっていたら
楽しかったろうと、後悔先に立たず。
何といっても、ボーダーの若者達を
一人で統率できる稀な人です。

長野市の山口さん夫婦は毎年必ず来てくれます。
昨日も夕食にまわせるほどおにぎりと野菜の
惣菜を頂きました。

福ちゃん農園の福宏さんと晃子さんは
今日で二日目です。今日は菅平の斎藤さんも
一緒でした。マイカップにマイ脚立等
マイ農具を持って助けに来てくれました。

高津さん、栗田さん、本田さんも
都合のつく時に来てくれています。
畑以外でもお手伝い頂いたり、
栄養剤や差し入れも頂き感謝です。

今年房切り初日は、ボーダーの春菜ちゃんと
二人きりで、どうなるかと心配していたら、
春名ちゃんがボーダー仲間に声をかけてくれて、
毎日新顔が増えていって今日で7人となりました。
さらに二人は声をかければ来れますとのこと。
来年は巨峰畑を借り増して、ボーダーの
若者達に常に仕事があるようにしたらどうか
等と思っています。ある日皆が急にいなくなったら
困るのですが。

福永さんいわく、こんな軽作業なんだから
バイト代は安くてもしょうがないわね、と。
私は非農家で巨峰栽培を始めて、1年目の
房切りを一人でやり始めて際限の無い
トンでもない作業だと刷り込まれて
しまったのですが、確かに泥まみれや
体力の限界まで追い込まれるような
作業ではないですよね。自分ではいくらも
耐えられるのに、それを他人にとっては
つらい作業を強いているのでは、と思って
しまうのは失礼ですよね。

Since the beginning of the bunch forming,
so many people came to help me. I thank you
very much for all of them.

Fukunaga-san in Minenohara came
three days in a row. She took her sisiter
Yumi-san with their home-made
bread and jam. They taste very good.
She offered her hand even today. As I had already
7 to 8 people in the vineyard, I declined from
her offer with many thanks. However, we should have
more fun if she had come. It's like crying over
spilt milk. She is such a rare person who can administer
young snow boarders by herself.

Mr.and Mrs. Yamaguchi in Nagano City
come to help every year with a big luch
most of which I can take back home for
easy dinner.

Fukuhiro-chan and his wife Teruko-san came
today for second time! Today they took Saito-san
of Sugadaira with them. They have their own
tea cup, own stairs and own agricultural
instruments!

Takatsu-san, Kurita-san and Honda-san
come when it is convenient to them.
They help me out in other than
vineyards, too. Thank you for your
suppliments, snack,etc.

I was at a loss when I started the bunch
forming operation on the first day only
with Haruna-chan, a snow boarder. But
she started to talk to her friends and
everyday new face joined. Today seven
snow boarders are in my vineyards!
She even told me that another two were
availale if I had wanted. I wonder if
I should rent more Kyoho vineyards if
I got constant hands like today so
that there would be plenty of work
opportunities for the people like
them.

Fukunaga-san told me that such low wage
should be acceptable as the work was not
hard at all compared what she had been
offered in the farm yard. When I started
Kyoho growin 5 years ago when I had little
real experience in the farm yard. Bunch forming
seemed an endless operation especially when I
looked around up upon the overhead trellis.
They vineyard looked like a green ocean.
This is certainly not such a hard work as pushes
one to the limit of physical strength.

I should not think this way that
I can stand such a work but casual workers
would not.