MIEDEN FARM Field Notes
BUSINESS
The tangerines sold well — so why was there no money left?
FROM THE ARCHIVE · 2023
Our first tangerine sale kept us run off our feet for a whole week. But when we did the math, there was hardly any money left.
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No.02
How does aquaponics work?
SMART FARM · September 30, 2026
Growing vegetables with the water fish live in, then sending the water the vegetables have filtered back to the fish. Here's how it works, and where MIEDEN FARM is now.
No.03 · GROW
When the lettuce started looking wrong, what we checked one by one
One of our hydroponic beds was covered in algae. There wasn't just one cause — a record of narrowing down the problem, from observation to response.
May 3, 2026
2026
GROW
Mi:eden
When the tangerine trees blossom, what a farmer looks at first
When the white tangerine blossoms open, it's time to spray and to take a fresh look at the condition of every single tree.
No.04
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April 19, 2026
How the aquaponics we'd only imagined became a real facility
SMART FARM
A hydroponic test stage, settling the system with nutrient solution before adding fish. The aquaponics we'd prepared for so long finally took its first step.
BUSINESS
Farming turned out to be a business
October 18, 2025
Three years after coming to Jeju, what we really learned wasn't how to grow — it was how to make something we could sell.
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No.07
The simplest bowl you can make with cured kabocha squash
EAT · October 5, 2025
Before they went past their best in storage, we turned our remaining kabocha into soup.
No.08 · EAT
How to make a box of green tangerines last
When you've got a box of green tangerines and aren't sure how to eat them — from prepping to using them, all in one place.
September 3, 2025
2025
GROW
Mi:eden
Kohlrabi farming starts with the seedlings
Growing kohlrabi starts with the seedlings — the first step to good kohlrabi is raising good seedlings.
No.09
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August 20, 2025
Could we build a smart farm ourselves?
SMART FARM
We'd built the greenhouse, but didn't know how to fill it with a smart farm. We'd been learning for two years and still hadn't installed anything ourselves.
RURAL LIFE
We couldn't start without land
February 11, 2025
158 hours of training, time spent visiting farms across the country, even the paperwork for support programs — but what we actually ran into was the reality of having no land.
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No.12
Growing what we eat, ourselves
RURAL LIFE · February 10, 2025
At a time when we were thinking more and more about what we eat, one remark from my husband started the idea of farming ourselves.
No.13 · GROW
Under the plastic, it was really hot
We planted in August and again in September. Even so, the beet seedlings couldn't survive in the field — a record of going back over the causes, one by one, at the time.
FROM THE ARCHIVE · 2024
2024
SMART FARM
Mi:eden
After giving up on mangoes
As we dropped our plan to grow mangoes and turned toward growing many kinds of crops, aquaponics naturally caught our eye.
No.14
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How to rent farm machinery instead of buying it
Instead of buying machinery, we rented it through a government program in 2023 — the actual process, from requirements to what to bring.
FROM THE ARCHIVE · 2023
RURAL LIFE
We were handed an orchard with weeds up to our knees
FROM THE ARCHIVE · 2023
A 1,400-pyeong (about 4,600 m²) tangerine orchard. When the land we'd waited so long for finally came, the first things we faced were knee-high weeds and dead trees.
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