CRAZYTANK News vol.206 Updating Capitalistic Relationships - A Case Study of 保けん野菜（Hoken Yasai） Service's Original Event "Meeting the Best Tasting Turnips" -
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CRAZYTANK News vol.206
July has come and gone in the blink of an eye. Last weekend, June 30, was also the turn of the year, which means that we have finally entered the second half of the year 2024.
Although it is the rainy season with high humidity and rain, we should once again cherish each and every day of the year.
Now, in this week's newsletter, we would like to share with you what happened at 保けん野菜（Hoken Yasai） Service's annual Original Event "Meeting the Best Tasting Turnips”.
From there, we wrote about our prediction that it will be very valuable in the future society to go beyond capitalistic services and create a state of mutual trust and support among producers, subscribers (consumers), and operators.
Please read on.
Updating Capitalistic Relationships - A Case Study of 保けん野菜（Hoken Yasai） Service's Original Event "Meeting the Best Tasting Turnips" -
The "2nd Meeting the Best Tasting Turnips”, an annual event for 保けん野菜（Hoken Yasai） Service, of which we are an advisor, was recently held without a hitch again this year.
This event is being planned after rethinking "how to encounter vegetables" in light of the following words from Mr. Hagiwara, the representative of "Norakura Farm," in NAGANO, Japan, a partner farmer of 保けん野菜（Hoken Yasai）.
"There are several days in a year when NOW is the perfect timing to eat vegetable!"
Normally, vegetables are delivered from producers to consumers through distribution. However, in this event, consumers take the time and effort to travel to the production area to experience and witness the best timing for these extremely delicate vegetables.
As a result, the event has been stripped down to the bare minimum of reproducibility and versatility.
This year's “2nd Meeting the Best Tasting Turnips" began the same way as last year's "First Period," by first eating these best-timed turnips within a few dozen seconds of harvesting them from the field.
Upon arriving at the field, subscribers who participated in the first meeting (held in June 2023) said, "The view of the turnip field is totally different from last year!" they said. There were various reasons for this, such as the fact that NoraKura Farm is constantly updating its cultivation policies and methods, and the effects of this year's weather. These were also important information for the subscribers who participated in the event.
This is the moment when we realize that this year's turnips are the result of the accumulated knowledge of farmers and the unpredictable nature of the daily weather.
After all participants harvest the turnips, the turnips are washed in a turnip-washing machine (the movement of the turnips at this time is interesting and very addictive! Watching the turnips being washed by this machine is strangely comforting and soothing... haha!) ).
The program of the meeting then moves on to a full-course turnip lunch using the harvested turnips.
The turnip party was held during the first period (2023), but this time, the second period, one of the subscribers, Mrs. Gorgo (each subscriber is given a vegetable name and icon in 保けん野菜（Hoken Yasai )) produced the full course. Gorgo is the Japanese name for Uzumaki beet, the Italian name is Barbavietra.
Gorgo-san usually contributes his original recipes to the 保けん野菜（Hoken Yasai ) Service's exclusive recipe collection.
The quality of his recipes is so high that we receive comments from other subscribers who have never met Mrs. Gorgo in person, saying that her recipes are amazing.
This time, Ms. Akiyama, the representative of Michikusa LLC, which operates 保けん野菜（Hoken Yasai ), contacted Mrs. Gorgo to discuss producing a turnip menu for this year's turnip main meeting, which she gladly accepted, and a full turnip course by Mrs. Gorgo will be realized.
The menu was truly amazing, and all the participants enjoyed the turnips so much that their stomachs were bursting with the deliciousness of the food.
Please read this article for a detailed account of the day's events!
Essentially, there are producers (providers) and consumers (receivers) of services and products in the world. In return, money intervenes, and economic activities are established.
However, at 保けん野菜（Hoken Yasai ), we aim to develop services that realize an updated capitalistic relationship.
It is a state in which the relationship between producers (farmers) and consumers (service subscribers) does not end with the money-mediated relationship, but builds a trusting relationship that transcends positional differences through a solid accumulation of information and experiences.
The reason why we are aiming for such a state is because we believe that in a capitalist society and a hyper-rationalized society where technology and AI are on the rise, such human relationships and environments where people can care for each other and help each other under various circumstances, even if irrationally, are very important for us human beings to survive.
This year's “Meeting the Best Tasting Turnips“ evolved from a situation in which the event had been created solely by the management side to one in which Mrs.Golgo, who has continued to be involved beyond her position as a consumer (service subscriber), was asked to take on some of the management of the event.
We look back on this "state of affairs" as symbolic of exactly the form that 保けん野菜（Hoken Yasai ) is aiming for.
We predict that in the future, we humans will find more joy and richness in events and environments where we want to help and lend our strength, even if it is irrational.
This is because we believe that in the future when generative AI develops, AI will be able to do things more rationally than humans, and that is why humans will find renewed value in things that are more human-like.
At 保けん野菜（Hoken Yasai ), we would like to continue to create an environment where producers, subscribers, and operators transcend their respective boundaries and positions to understand and care for each other. We hope that this environment and state of affairs will become a source of salvation for those involved with 保けん野菜（Hoken Yasai )in the future, and that we will continue to evolve our services beyond capitalistic profit.
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At the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Turnip Lords, to enjoy the turnips, we also tried our hand at making jack-o-lanterns out of turnips!
While pumpkin jack-o'-lanterns are probably the most common, it has been discovered that jack-o'-lanterns were actually first made from turnips. Did you know that?
It seems that there are still many things about the turnip vegetable that we do not know. What kind of encounters await us at next year's 3rd Meeting of Turnip? While looking forward to the meeting, we would like to enjoy the turnips delivered as a vegetable box for a little while longer at home.