From Apples To Rice; The Miracle of Natural Sake.

The Kikuchi brewery's goal is to make delicious sake that is also sustainable. To do this, they challenged the sake industry by brewing sake with rice grown without pesticides, synthetic fertilisers, or herbicides. They turned to Mr Kimura, a farmer and pioneer of pesticide-free farming who had proven the industry wrong when he succeeded in growing apples without using chemicals for the first time in the world.   Fertiliser and pesticide free Omachi rice.   This led to the Kimura-style Natural Cultivation Executive Committee in Okayama in the spring of 2010 to provide a safer and more secure rice supply....