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Our Work

What We Do

Everything we do nurtures one of three pillars: "Nurture the city," "Nurture making," and "Nurture nurturing." First we introduce the three pillars, then our work on the ground in Kitakagaya, along with which pillar each activity belongs to.

Our Pillars

Three Pillars

All of our work nurtures one of these three. Any project we start in the future will fit one of them too.

  1. Nurture the city: Redefine and maximize the value of the city's existing assets

    Vacant lots, vacant houses, shopping streets, and the people and culture that live there. We see what the city already has not as "what is lacking" but as "assets," and bring out its value from the residents' point of view.

  2. Nurture making: Believe in your own creativity, and help more people enjoy it

    Growing vegetables, cooking, making things, opening a shop. At any age, we help more people trust their own "I want to try" and get their hands moving, and enjoy doing so.

  3. Nurture nurturing: Share encounters and wisdom to spark an "emergent cycle"

    The encounters and wisdom born in our places should not stay within individuals. We share them with the city and with society. Those who were taught become teachers, and the next place is born. We set that cycle in motion.

Our Work

What We Do

Nurture the city, nurture making, nurture nurturing (mainly Nurture the city)

Reweaving the city with urban farms

Urban Farming for Community

Turn a vacant lot into a farm, and people gather. As they till the soil, relationships where people call each other by name take shape. For us, "urban farm" is not a method of agriculture but a method of reweaving the city's relationships.

  • "Minna no Uen," a community farm that began in 2012 on 150 m² of former housing land in Kitakagaya
  • Plots grown without pesticides or chemical fertilizers, and a shared growing area open to anyone
  • Food and learning programs where we grow, make, and eat, including homemade soy sauce, a stone oven, and a children's cafeteria

Learn More →Minna no Uen ↗

Nurture the city, nurture making, nurture nurturing (mainly Nurture making)

Kodomo Publica

KODOMO PUBLICA — Creative Hub for Kids

"Building a community with options for how to live." In 2025, a creative hub for children was born next to our farm in Kitakagaya. It is a third place in the city, neither home nor school.

  • For ages 3 to 18. Free to join
  • Workshops where people from the neighborhood become teachers, and "Quests," opportunities to take on challenges
  • With the children's currency "puubu," kids try minding a shop, shopping, and running a business

Learn More →Kodomo Publica ↗Shared Kitchen Publica ↗

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Kagaya Bricola: Redefining the city's assets from the residents' point of view

KAGAYA BRICOLA — Rediscovering Local Assets

Before making something new, find what the city already has. In the spirit of "bricolage" (combining whatever is at hand to make something new), we have redefined Kitakagaya's assets from the residents' point of view.

  • Kagaya Bricola (since 2022; commissioned by Osaka Metro, now ended): Residents as correspondents report on and share news about the city
  • The English conversation event "KAGAYA FUNKY ENGLISH" and the "Kagaya Tabearuki Ichi" food walk held with the shopping street
  • The community information site "NOW! Kitakagaya"

Learn More →NOW! Kitakagaya ↗

Nurture the city, nurture making (mainly Nurture the city)

SAINEN Shopping Street: A shop-in-shop experiment at Kagaya Shopping Street

SAINEN Shotengai — Shop-in-Shop Project

As retail gets harder, unused space is appearing inside shops. Meanwhile, many people in the city want to try selling their own sweets or coffee. This effort connects the two and lights the shopping street up again (SAINEN means "rekindling") as a place where people can take on challenges.

  • Co-existing pop-up shops using spare space in existing stores, with zero startup cost (October and December 2026)
  • Exchange workshops where vendors become instructors, and information sessions on using vacant lots and recruiting vendors
  • Sharing the process of putting the pop-ups together on the shopping street's official Instagram

Learn More →

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Share wisdom from the field with the city and society

Research, Advocacy & Public Partnership

What happens in the field should not stay in the field. By sharing what we have learned in Kitakagaya with universities, government, and other cities, we build a cycle in which "people who nurture" grow in other places too.

  • Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism survey on community building where the city, greenery, and agriculture coexist (fiscal 2016 to 2018); member of the Osaka Prefecture Committee for Promoting Agricultural Space Creation (since 2021)
  • Joint projects with Kobe City, the Urban Renaissance Agency (UR), Osaka Prefecture, Osaka City, and others (turning disaster-prevention open spaces and city-owned land into farms, promoting urban agriculture)
  • Operating the Urban Farm DB, an information base for urban farms; lectures and writing; part-time lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture, Kindai University

Learn More →Urban Farm DB ↗

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Taking part in Osaka Prefecture's agricultural policy

Osaka Prefecture Agricultural Policy Committee

Urban farmland is a place to produce food, and also a place where people meet, children grow, and communities prepare for disasters. We share the value we have seen on the ground where government policy is made.

  • Member, Osaka Prefecture Committee for Promoting Agricultural Space Creation (since 2021)
  • Providing expertise on urban agriculture and on community farms that make use of vacant and idle land
  • Also sharing what we learned from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism survey on community building where the city, greenery, and agriculture coexist (fiscal 2016 to 2018)

Learn More →Urban Farm DB ↗