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もうすぐ、菅野芳秀著「生きるための農業　地域をつくるための農業」（大正大学出版会、2024年11月５日発行、定価1800円）を読み終えます

私も福島県東白川郡塙町の農家出身なので、我が事のように読みすすめています

後日、感銘を受けた記述を抜書きする予定です

今回は著者の略歴をご紹介させていただきます。その中の「労働運動への参加」についても、自分との共通点がありました

菅野芳秀（かんのよしひで）

大正大学地域構想研究所客員教授／地域支局研究員(山形県長井市)。

置賜（おきたま）自給圈推進機構共同代表。

1949年(昭和24)生まれ。山形県長井市出身、在住。大学卒業後、労働運動への参加などを経て、水田の単作経営を経て、83年より自然那養鶏を軸に、76年帰郷。父の後を継ぎ、百姓となる。

2haの水田、20aの自家用の野菜畑との有畜複合経営を開始。88年より有志2名と共に旗揚げに取り組んだ「台所と農業をつなぐながい計画」(レインボープラン)は97年より始動、長井市の循環型地域づくり事業の根幹となっている。

現在、菅野農園の主な仕事は2005年に就農した息子が担う。

著書に『七転八倒百姓記 地域を創るタスキ渡し』(現代書館、2021年)、『玉子と土といのちと』(創森社、2010年)、『土はいのちのみなもと生ゴミはよみがえる」(議談社、2002年)。

I will soon finish reading Yoshihide Kanno's "Agriculture for Living, Agriculture for Creating Regions" (Taisho University Press, published November 5, 2024, price 1,800 yen).

I also come from a farming family in Hanawa Town, Higashi Shirakawa District, Fukushima Prefecture, so I am reading it as if it were my own story.

I plan to excerpt some of the passages that impressed me at a later date.

This time, I would like to introduce the author's brief biography. There was also a commonality between us in the section on "participation in the labor movement."

Yoshihide Kanno

Visiting professor at the Taisho University Regional Planning Institute/researcher at the regional branch office (Nagai City, Yamagata Prefecture).

Co-representative of the Okitama Self-Sufficiency Zone Promotion Organization.

Born in 1949 (Showa 24). Born and currently living in Nagai City, Yamagata Prefecture. After graduating from university, he participated in the labor movement, ran a single-crop rice paddy farm, and returned to his hometown in 1976, focusing on Shizenna chicken farming in 1983. He followed in his father's footsteps and became a farmer. He started a diversified livestock business with a 2ha rice paddy and a 20ha vegetable patch for his own use. In 1988, he launched the "Rainbow Plan" to connect the kitchen and agriculture, which he started with two other volunteers, in 1997 and has become the backbone of Nagai City's circular community development initiative.

Currently, the main work at Sugano Farm is carried out by his son, who began farming in 2005.

His books include "The Story of a Farmer's Triumph: Passing the Tasuki to Create a Community" (Gendaishokan, 2021), "Eggs, Soil, and Life" (Soumorisha, 2010), and "Soil is the Source of Life: Food Waste is Revived" (Kidansha, 2002).