The Journey of Passion Fruit Farming and Healing Agriculture
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“What are you doing right now?”
KBS reporter Son Dong-hyuk asked.
The unexpected response from the couple, Lee Seung-yoon and Park Chae-yeon, was, “We are waiting.”
“Waiting for what?”
“For the passion fruit to drop.”
Laughter erupted.
Under the persimmon tree, there’s an old saying about waiting for persimmons to fall, and here, they genuinely wait for the fruits to drop.
A moment later, a deep purple passion fruit fell from the branch.
“It dropped!”
This time, the production team shouted first. The cameraman lowered himself close to the ground, ready to capture the moment.
Reporter Son Dong-hyuk picked up the freshly fallen fruit.
“The aroma is really intense,” he remarked.
This small commotion began on a farm in Ulsan.
However, if you look closely, the sound of the fruit dropping embodies the farming philosophy of Green Star Farm.
It’s about waiting until the right time.
They don’t rush to pick or forcefully shake the branches.
They wait until the fruit is ripe enough to let go on its own.
At 7 AM, the camera entered the farm.
Though it was early morning, the greenhouse was already hot.
Summer sunlight streamed through the glass walls, quickly raising the internal temperature.
Even standing still, sweat dripped down.
The cameraman continuously wiped his forehead, and soon beads of sweat formed on the reporter's face.
“It’s much hotter than I expected,” he said.
That one remark explained the farmer's summer.
While the filming lasted just one day, the farmer repeatedly enters and exits this hot space.
The results of enduring that heat hung before their eyes: passion fruits ripening from green to red to deep purple.
What KBS captured that day was not just a type of tropical fruit but the life of a family creating new agricultural possibilities in Ulsan.
Three generations stood in the same field.
“Here’s another one!”
This time, it was a child’s voice. Lee Seung-yoon, Park Chae-yeon, grandmother Kim Myung-soon, and son Chan-woo entered the farm with baskets.
Finding fallen passion fruits was like a treasure hunt for Chan-woo.
His voice grew louder with each discovery.
The grandmother accepted the fruits he found, while the parents watched and smiled.
The camera naturally followed this family.
Some farm, while others run healing agriculture programs, and the grandmother and grandson lend a helping hand.
This is a scene of generations working together to build the farm.
In an era where rural aging and population decline have become familiar news, seeing three generations gathered on one farm is particularly striking.
Green Star Farm cultivates more than just passion fruit.
They are also nurturing the time for the next generation to experience and remember rural life.
In a deeper look at Green Star Farm, an interesting division of roles emerges.
While Lee Seung-yoon grows crops including passion fruit, Park Chae-yeon connects agriculture with people through healing agriculture.
The plants, soil, and harvesting activities expand beyond mere farming to become experiences of human connection with nature.
The process of touching, observing, and harvesting the fruits becomes a program.
They have taken a step beyond merely producing and selling agricultural products to explain the value of agriculture.
Green Star Farm was also selected for a social enterprise startup support project this year.
This is a challenge to create new social value in rural areas by combining agriculture, healing, and experience.
During the filming of '6 PM Our Hometown', stories of healing agriculture were captured alongside the harvest of passion fruit.
The husband grows the fruits, while the wife cares for people's hearts on the farm.
Though they seem different, they are ultimately two pillars completing one farm.
As the filming continued, another interesting story emerged.
People new to passion fruit often choose smooth and shiny fruits.
However, passion fruit is a bit different.
As it ripens, the skin wrinkles and becomes more wrinkled, allowing one to enjoy its unique aroma and flavor more richly.
People often think that smooth and perfect-looking items are the best products.
Passion fruit subtly flips that standard around.
Only after time passes and wrinkles appear does the flavor deepen.
Perhaps that’s why the passion fruits encountered on the farm appeared a bit special.
Just as fruits need time, perhaps people do too.
While the years create wrinkles on faces, they also deepen the flavor of life.
After the harvest, passion fruit made its way to the dining table.
When cut in half, the yellow flesh and seeds were revealed.
It was added to salads, yogurt, and mixed with sparkling water to create a refreshing drink.
It also enhanced the unique sweet and sour flavor of sandwiches and chocolate desserts.
It seemed that the tasting time was even more enjoyable than the filming.
“This is really delicious.”
“The aroma is so strong that I keep wanting to eat more.”
The smiles on the faces of the farm family reflected the production team’s reactions.
While familiar to the farmer, it was a first-time taste for someone else.
And that first experience helps to remember the small farm in Ulsan.
Even after the broadcast ends, farming continues.
KBS cameras visited Green Star Farm.
Being featured on national television is undoubtedly a welcome event for a small farm.
However, even after the cameras are off, the farmer's day doesn't change much.
They must open the greenhouse door again and check on the crops.
And they wait again.
Until the green fruits turn red, and the red fruits ripen to purple.
Until the fully ripe fruits let go of the branches on their own.
Another one drops with a thud!
Perhaps farming is all about waiting.
You can’t pull them to grow faster or rush them to ripen.
And caring for people is likely not much different.
Thus, the stories of Green Star Farm, which grows passion fruit and practices healing agriculture, are strangely similar.
Both fruits and people need their own time to ripen.
What KBS cameras discovered in the nearly 40-degree greenhouse during the summer might have been that.
It was the dream of Green Star Farm, slowly ripening at the end of waiting.
Source :https://blog.naver.com/ulsan_nuri/224397015913
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