Happo-en’s summer events:
“Learning is Full of Adventures”

Reporting on our “SDGs: 2018 All Athlete Dinner” event,
in which all the attendees thought about and passionately discussed healthy food, the environment, natural cultivation, human services, and sports. Also they enjoyed our healthy and tasty dishes there

Happo-en hosted our “SDGs: 2018 All Athlete Dinner” event on the night of July 27 in our Jour room, while increasing focus and awareness on the environment, such as the problem of plastic straws, and abnormal weather in Japan.

Over 150 attendees, who are concerned with food, the environment, production, human services, and sports, enjoyed the standpoints of other attendees in their talks based on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which were put forth by the United Nations.

Happo-en makes efforts toward the following goals from the SDGs:

・Good health and well-being
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
・Quality education
Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
・Decent work and economic growth
Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
・Responsible consumption and production
Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
・Life on land
Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse and degradation and halt biodiversity loss
・Partnership for the goals
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

Our speakers were:
– Mr. Kimura, who succeeded in becoming the first-ever person to raise “Miracle Apples”
– Mr. Saeki, who supports the Edible Schoolyard Project in Japan
– Mr. Isobe, who farms in natural cultivation, with independently-minded people with disabilities
– Mr. Takayasu, who has knowledge of animal-welfare
– Mr. Seki, who studies the relationship between fermented food and intestines based on anatomical science
– Ms. Hoshiba, who decided to become a natural cultivation farmer, inspired by her illness once
– Mr. Kawada, who talked about farming as an athlete’s second career after they retire
– Mr. Fukagawa, who promotes sports and food education for disabled people at his organization, Inclusive Labo

At the event, we had a chance to hear about the food experiences of Paralympic athletes and soccer players (including a member of our national soccer team). All the attendees enjoyed our dishes, which our chefs made with naturally-cultivated ingredients, fermented food, and meat from humanely-raised animals, and enjoyed meeting with farmers at the naturally-cultivated product market at the event. It was a productive night for all the attendees.

The Sustainable Development Goals are going to be one of Happo-en’s goals going forward with this event as a start.

Happo-en’s summer events “Learning is Full of Adventures” will continue. Don’t miss them!