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Doronko-Mura's
One-Planet Living!
If everyone lived like the average Japanese lifestyle, it would take 2.9 Earths.
“One-Planet Living” means building a society that can coexist with others and live within our true scale.
Philosophy
ITONAMI
(営み)
A way of living with time, space, and energy.
We practice one-planet living by growing food, eating what we grow, and learning from the cycles of life.
Programs
Farm Stay
Child / Family/Individual
Live the full cycle of farming, cooking, and shared meals.
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Stay from 2–3 days up to one year and join the daily rhythm of farm life.
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Seasonal activities include harvesting, soil and compost work, animal care, cooking, and cleanup.
School Program
For Schools / Educators
Whole-grade field learning through farming and food.
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Designed for school grades or class groups as day trips or overnight programs.
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Activities include farm work, food preparation, and guided reflection.
Corporate Program
For Companies / Groups
Team building through farm work and reflection.
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Half-day to multi-day programs combining hands-on farm tasks, shared meals, and reflection.
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Designed for team building, onboarding, leadership development, and well-being programs.
Member/ Staff
For Volunteers / Intern
Live and work with the Doronko-Mura community
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Open to college students and adults, including WWOOFers, who join village life through daily work.
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Work includes cultivation, composting, cooking, maintenance, and supporting programs.
The Five Learnings
The rural resources of the Atsumi Peninsula are the learning field of Doronko Village.
Through five core experiences based on a lifestyle of growing and eating, participants reflect on themselves, society, and the natural world.
Poop Workshop
Learn how soil is made using pig and chicken manure.
Participants mix, ferment, spread, and turn it into the soil, experiencing the cycle that supports vegetables and life.
A Bowl of Rice
Learn what it takes to produce a single bowl of rice.
By planting, harvesting, drying, threshing, and hulling rice by hand, participants reflect on labor, efficiency, and value.
Feeding the Pigs
Make pig feed from food that would otherwise be wasted.
Cooking surplus food and feeding the pigs invites participants to think about food waste and resource use.
Farm Restraunt
Experience a way of life centered on growing and eating.
Participants prepare and eat food from the village and reflect on science, nourishment, and the connection of life.
Processing a Chicken
Is killing a chicken cruel?
But if we eat ramen or fried chicken, someone has to kill that chicken and prepare it for food. Participants face that fact directly and reflect on life, emotion, and responsibility.
Owner's Message
At the heart of what we do is a way of life based on growing and eating.
Through this way of life, we hope children can feel the connection of life and begin to cultivate their own awareness.
When they return to everyday life, our wish is that they continue asking, “How can I live alongside other living things?” and learn to reflect, choose, and act for themselves. If more children grow up believing, “I choose my own life,” we believe the world will slowly begin to change.
We see “Living within one Earth” as something that becomes possible when each of us notices the connection of life and changes through it.
Atsumi Doronko-Mura
Hiroshi Ogasawara, Chimie Watanabe
Access
● Address 21-1 Nishisunabata, Ebima-cho, Tahara-shi, Aichi, 441-3605, Japan
● Open 10:00–17:00 (We are usually at the café or the activity workshop next door.)
● Email atumi@doronkomura.com
