Kōriyama Vegetables: Young Farmers Team Up with Partners to Overcome Food Safety Fears

The vegetable stand run by Suzuki Farm, which heads the Kōriyama Brand Vegetable Council, doubles as a seed and seedling store.

In addition to Kōriyama brand vegetables, the stand offers a wide assortment of less-common varieties of products.

Ōtake stands in front of his spinach plot. Always cheerful, he turns serious when the subject is farming.

Nikkei Farm spinach has a distinctive long stem.

Ōtake and his wife grow radicchio rosso, an Italian vegetable, and other unusual varieties on the land beyond the cabbage plot.

A freshly harvested Kiwami variety of cabbage, which are known for being sweet and tender.

Shinohara Yūtarō (right), owner of the Shinoya izakaya and other businesses, with Ōtake at his farm.

The walls of the Nikkei Farm vegetable stand display articles about the activities of partner farmers.

The first Shinoya izakaya near Kōriyama Station.

Sauteed spinach from Nikkei Farm. Sautéing brings out even more of the vegetable’s sweetness.