The Harmony Between People and Nature

Please have a look at the C.W. Nicol Afan Woodland Trust website:

アファンの森とは

The C.W. Nicol Afan Woodland Trust YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/@AfanWoodlandTrust

The 40th Anniversary Exhibition celebrating the creation of Afan Woodland is now on!
(Yoko Arimoto visited too. The exhibition gives a fascinating and detailed account of Afan Woodland’s journey over the years, and is well worth seeing.)

C.W. Nicol and Afan Woodland — Looking to the Future after 40 Years of Practice

Dates: 18 April 2026 – 29 November 2026
Venue: Kurohime Dowakan / Dowa no Mori Gallery　（Kurohime Fairy Tale Museum – Fairy Tale Forest Gallery）

For more information:

アファンの森づくり４０周年記念展 ニコルと一緒に森への道を歩きませんか？ ～ C.W. ニコルとアファンの森・40 年の実践から未来へ～

We’ve compiled our interview with Wataru Osawa into a PDF in both Japanese and English. (The English version begins on page 5.)
You can download it for free using the link below. We hope you’ll enjoy reading it!

https://7dbd3c09-2476-4758-8e3a-9a8198171c8b.usrfiles.com/ugd/7dbd3c_c238008028144be0b8756a29922769ce.pdf

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Roast Chicken Sandwich Recipe
Ingredients

1 whole chicken
Salt — 2% of the chicken’s weight
Olive oil — as needed
Rosemary — plenty
Bread — as needed
Watercress — as needed
Black pepper — as needed

Method

The day before

Wash the whole chicken thoroughly and pat it completely dry with kitchen paper.
Rub salt equal to 2% of the chicken’s weight thoroughly over the outside and inside the cavity. Leave in the fridge for 2–3 hours. You can also leave it overnight.
Rinse the salt briefly from the chicken, then carefully pat it dry again.
Massage olive oil all over the chicken and fill the cavity generously with rosemary.
Roast in an oven preheated to 200°C for about 1 hour. Once it has cooled, store it in the fridge.

On the day

Tear the roast chicken into bite-sized pieces by hand. Sandwich the chicken and watercress between slices of bread, then finish with freshly ground black pepper.