The weather was a torrential downpour in the morning, but in the afternoon the rain cleared to gift us a beautiful day!!
In Japan, the rainy season is about to begin. It's blessedly welcome rain!

With our July 2nd live broadcast approaching, we took the time to check over our connection and equipment.

The rice paddy we're planning to use for our rice planting project is full of weeds at the moment, but we'll be getting things ready for planting going forward.

The baby rice seedlings that will call the paddy home after the planting are coming along nicely.

The white covering we've tucked on top of the baby rice is there to protect it from getting eaten by birds.

After this, we're going to weed the rice paddy and fill it with water.
Once that's done, we'll till the soil of the rice paddy and give it time to rest.
We'll level out the soil of the paddy and make rows of raised earth to ensure the quality of the rice is even over the whole paddy.