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At Home with Venetia in Kyoto (2009)

Season 9 • Episode 5 • Vol.122 Bountiful Season

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At Home with Venetia in Kyoto Season 9, Episode 5: Vol.122 Bountiful Season

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As a new daily routine, English-born Venetia goes on walks in Kyoto Prefecture with a friend. Walks filled with such sounds as birds chirping and a stream babbling are precious to her with failing eyes. She stops by an old folk house/restaurant to order naturally raised, stone-baked bread. At a blueberry orchard in Shiga Prefecture run by a friend of hers, she harvests the last berries of the year and makes jam. She admires how her friend, who also grows organic cotton, appreciates nature's blessings we eat and wear. Watch At Home with Venetia in Kyoto Season 9, Episode 5 Vol.122 Bountiful Season in HD free online. Enjoy high-quality streaming of At Home with Venetia in Kyoto Season 9, Episode 5 and share your thoughts in the comments below!

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Episodes

6 episodes
1

Vol.118 Enjoying Music

Venetia enjoys a handcrafted life in Ohara, Kyoto Prefecture. On one mild day, she takes some long-unused items to an antique shop. When she comes home, her husband is working on rose fences. Preparation for spring during the severe cold of winter is part of gardening. Driven by her recent interest in singing, she visits an 89-year-old musician, who plays various instruments like piano, cembalo, pipe organ, and zither. Seeing her still actively performing and trying new things, Venetia is invigorated.
2

Vol.119 Winter Delicacies

British-born Venetia lives in Nature-rich Ohara, Kyoto Prefecture. With the soundless cold hovering over the plants in her garden, she enjoys meditation. During a walk, she stops by her favorite café and appreciates homemade sweets with seasonal fruit and tea. A friend comes to check out her garden. She has been a herb expert since childhood and has edited a book about edible wild herbs. She is an evangelist of herb picking. They look for wild herbs together in the garden and cook pizza flavored with them.
3

Vol.120 Loved Ones

Venetia lives in Ohara, Kyoto Prefecture, appreciating each season. Worried about her failing eyesight, her half-sister Lulu comes to Japan for the first time. Venetia left the UK feeling ill at ease in aristocratic society. Lulu moved to Ireland with their mother. They have kept close. They reminisce about their mother over bread & butter pudding, their childhood favorite. At Venetia's friends' herb garden, Lulu shows interest in how herbs are grown in an herb-unfriendly humid climate just like Ireland's.
4

Vol.121 The Island with Balmy Breezes - Awaji Island

In early summer, Venetia goes to Awaji Island. A horticultural-therapy school teaches Venetia, who can no longer garden the way she used to because of her failing eyesight, the importance of appreciating plants with all senses. At Ei, known for its incense production, the Koh-shi, responsible for how the incense smells, shows her the centuries-old method. A keeper of indigenous honeybees shows her the "nectar-supplying forest" he spent 7 years growing. It is made for the bees in every detail.
5

Vol.122 Bountiful Season

As a new daily routine, English-born Venetia goes on walks in Kyoto Prefecture with a friend. Walks filled with such sounds as birds chirping and a stream babbling are precious to her with failing eyes. She stops by an old folk house/restaurant to order naturally raised, stone-baked bread. At a blueberry orchard in Shiga Prefecture run by a friend of hers, she harvests the last berries of the year and makes jam. She admires how her friend, who also grows organic cotton, appreciates nature's blessings we eat and wear.
6

Vol.123 Dearest Ones

English-born Venetia organizes an open garden for the first time in a long time. As she works with a gardener friend on her garden in preparation, she shares with him some fruit from a fig tree that recovered from damage in a typhoon 2 years ago. On Day 1, she entertains her pals with a blend of lemon verbena and English tea. Day 2 is all excitement with children in the neighborhood looking for sweets hidden in her garden. She also spends some relaxing time with her son's family.