Students from Atsushi Tanaka’s seminar in the Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences held an event aimed at solving the problem of food loss/生命环境学院田中敦研究小组的学生们开展了解决“Food Loss”课题的活动

? ReVegeAte, a group of students in the Atsushi Tanaka seminar in the Department of Community and Social Systems in the Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, recently took on the challenge of solving the problem of food loss.
? In addition to raising funds through a crowd-funding campaign to raise funds for their activities, the students worked with Furman Inoue Farm (representative: Yoshitaka Inoue), located in Hokuto City, which offers farming experiences and organizes agricultural events, and OASIS (representative: Masashi Koike), a restaurant in Kofu City, to come up with a plan for solving the problem.
? On Sunday, September 20, 2020, an event was held at the farm in Hokuto City’s Takane Town, where the participants experienced harvesting and cooked dishes using the harvested vegetables, with the aim of changing consumer awareness of the issue.
? Families and crowdfunding supporters living in the prefecture participated in the event, where they harvested seasonal vegetables such as tomatoes, eggplants and green peppers after receiving a lecture from Mr. Inoue. Afterwards, participants cooked their own tomatoes and eggplants in oil, grilled eggplants and green pepper pancakes based on the recipes provided by Mr. Koike, the owner and chef of OASIS, and tasted freshly picked vegetables. In addition, students cooked vegetable curry and pickles in a kitchen car loaned by Nakamura Corporation (representative: Mr. Fumiaki Nakamura), a restaurant equipment wholesaler in Tsuru City, and served them to the participants.
? Participants said they enjoyed the harvest experience, which is not something they would normally have the chance to do, and some of the students who organized the event said they realized how difficult it is to publicize their activities, gain more supporters, and raise funds, and that they wanted to make the most of their experience for their future activities.

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　生命环境学院地域社会系统学科观光政策科学特别课程 田中敦研究小组的学生团队“ReVegeAte”，最近挑战了解决“Food Loss”课题的项目。
　学生们众筹了活动经费，并获得了位于北杜市的接受农业体验和举办农业活动的株式会社Farman井上农场（代表：井上能孝）以及位于甲府市的饭店OASIS（代表：小池将司）的协助，推敲并制定了为解决该课题的计划方案。
　令和2年9月20日（星期日），在位于北杜市高根町的农场内，以改变消费者对该问题的意识为契机，举办了农作物收获体验，并用收获的蔬菜制作了各式料理。
　参加活动的有住在县内的家人和众筹的支援者们。井上先生给大家做了介绍，活动中收获了西红柿、茄子、青椒等当季蔬菜。之后，以OASIS的负责人小池先生提供的菜谱为基础，参加者们烹饪了油煮番茄和茄子、炒茄子、青椒煎薄饼等料理，对刚采摘的蔬菜料理啧啧称赞。另外，在都留市经营餐饮店用品批发的株式会社中村商事（代表：中村文昭）也参与了本计划，在向其租借的厨房车里，学生们烹饪蔬菜咖喱、蔬菜卷等各种料理。
　参加者们表示经历了平时无法体验的收获的快乐，制定计划的学生们说：“深切体会到宣传活动、拉赞助、以及筹集资金的困难。”这是个非常有意义的活动。

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