Rice Paddy Art

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From Neatorama: Since 1993, farmers in the town of Inakadate in Aomori prefecture in Japan have been creating works of crop art by growing a little purple and yellow-leafed kodaimai rice along with their local green-leafed tsugaru-roman variety. Other townships are now doing it too.

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How’s it done?

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via Pink Tentacle with images from Vill Inakadate Aomori and Am Askanet

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