社会情報学科の大森ゼミの学生が産官学連携で広報に取り組む「デカンショ豆」の収穫に、附属保育園の園児が挑戦しました。

English below. 

 

武庫川女子大学附属保育園の園児が7月20日、「デカンショ豆」の収穫を附属保育園で体験しました。

 

丹波の枝豆といえば秋の名産「黒枝豆」が有名ですが、「デカンショ豆」は、丹波市内の若手農家5軒が栽培する品種で、「夏の枝豆」として新たな特産品化を目指しています。2022年2月より社会情報学科 大森いさみ教授のゼミ生8人が兵庫県丹波地方の食資源開発として食のリサーチを開始。デカンショ豆の農家から「知名度が上がらない」などの課題を聞き、デカンショ豆の広報企画を提案しました。収穫後の鮮度を保つのが難しい枝豆の特性を考慮し、栽培農家での収穫体験の販売・実施に取り組んでいます。

 

食育の観点から、本学の附属幼稚園や保育園にも広めようと、園児や保護者にも収穫体験をちらしなどで案内。附属保育園での収穫体験が実現しました。

 

栽培農家の一人、「丹波たぶち農場」の田渕泰久さんが20日の朝、収穫したばかりのデカンショ豆を枝ごと保育園に持ち込みました。情報メディア学科（現社会情報学科）大森ゼミの4年生、苅谷早紀さん、黒田あすかさん、堺柚菜さんが4、5歳の園児32人に摘み方をアドバイス。デカンショ豆を摘み取った園児からは「いっぱいとれたよ」「おうちでみんなと食べたい」と歓声があがりました。

収穫したデカンショ豆は、ジャムパンと一緒にこの日のおやつに。また、自宅で家族らと食べられるように、ゼミ生手作りの枝豆の折り紙を添えて、園児らが持ち帰りました。

 

ゼミ生は「取り方のコツを伝えたら上手に摘んでくれました。楽しそうに収穫してくれてよかったです」、田渕さんは「丹波は昼夜の温度差があり、枝豆や米などのおいしい作物が育ちます。現地まで来ていただくことが難しい方にも、デカンショ豆のおいしさが伝わればうれしいです」と話しています。

 

丹波篠山市で行われているデカンショ豆収穫体験はこちらからご覧ください。

 

Students of the Omori Seminar of the Department of Social Informatics took on the challenge of harvesting "decanting beans," which the students of the Omori Seminar of the Department of Social Informatics are working on publicizing through industry-government-academia collaboration, with children from the Mukogawa Women's University nursery school.

On July 20th, children from the nursery experienced harvesting "decansho beans".

While Tamba's edamame is famous for "black edamame," a specialty of autumn, "decansho beans" are a variety grown by five young farmers in Tamba City, with the aim of creating a new specialty as "summer edamame." The students began research to develop food resources in the Tamba region of Hyogo Prefecture. Hearing from farmers of decansho beans that they were not becoming well known, they proposed a publicity plan for decansho beans. Considering the characteristics of edamame, which are difficult to keep fresh after harvesting, we are working to sell and implement harvesting experiences at farmers who grow the beans.

From the viewpoint of dietary cultivation, we also spread the idea to the kindergartens and nursery schools affiliated with the university by offering the harvesting experience to the children and their guardians through flyers. The harvesting experience at the nursery school was a success.

One of the farmers, Mr. Yasuhisa Tabuchi of "Tamba Tabuchi Farm," brought freshly harvested decanting beans with their stems on to the nursery on the morning of the 20th. Saki Kariya, Asuka Kuroda, and Yuzuna Sakai, fourth-year students in the Omori Seminar of the Department of Information Media (now the Department of Social Informatics), gave advice on how to pick them to 32 children aged 4 and 5. After picking the decansho beans, the children cheered, saying, "We got a lot of beans," and "I want to eat them at home with my family."

The harvested beans were served with jam filled buns as a snack for the day. The children also took home some handmade origami shaped in edamame beans made by the seminar students so that enjoy them with their families.

One of the seminar students said, "I gave tips on how to pick them, and they did so very well." Mr. Tabuchi said, "The temperature difference between day and night in Tamba makes it possible to grow delicious crops such as edamame and rice. It makes me happy to know that delicious taste of decanting beans could be conveyed to those who are not familiar with the area," said Mr. Tabuchi.