Akiba maids show carrots which they harvested on the roof of The Japan Agricultural News building in Tokyo on Thursday, Nov. 7.
10 women, including “maids,” or waitresses working at costume play cafes in Akihabara, Tokyo, and animation voice actors, harvested carrots, ginger and bucket-planted rice on the roof of The Japan Agricultural News building in Akihabara on Thursday, Nov. 7.
The women cheerfully picked the vegetables and cut rice plants with scissors without caring about their costumes getting stained by dirt. “I have never experienced the smell of soil, so I really enjoyed harvesting,” one of them said with a smile.
Akihabara Vegetable Garden Project, the fifth of its kind, was held by an environmental nonprofit organization Licolita to spread the idea of Zero Food Miles to encourage people to grow what they eat. The harvested vegetables and rice will be used in Green Drinks Akiba, an event on ecological issues to be held in Akihabara in December.
(Nov. 8, 2013)