The scenery of olive trees bearing green and black fruit in November is getting familiar to residents of Ishinomaki in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Miyagi, which typically sees sub-zero temperatures in winter months."When I heard the olive growing plan, I wondered if we could do it successfully in such a cold area like here," Shoetsu Chiba, 70, said of the farming endeavor, which was started to help rebuild local people's lives after devastation by the quake and tsunami disaster in 2011.When the harvest season comes, dozens of residents join people from local agricultural producers'…READ FULL ARTICLE
