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Going along with the seasons, Venetia makes cocoa butter cream to soothe her skin tanned from the garden work in summer and cleans the wood stove with lavender vinegar in preparation for the coming winter. She visits the herb garden of Noriko, an old friend who helps her with the garden work. A certified instructor of floral designs, she makes seasonal wreaths from wild herbs so that more people can appreciate the beauty of wild flowers. British-born Venetia lives in Nature-rich Ohara, Kyoto Prefecture.
They look for wild herbs together in the garden and cook pizza flavored with them. A friend here has worked long and hard to prepare the soil to plant herbs, and Venetia visits the herb garden where the sage is in full bloom. She also meets a potter, Yoshitaka Hasu, for the first time in 30 years.
01 Vol. 1 Daffodils in Spring
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Hara, Stanley-Smith showcases the seasonal bounty of her adopted home, educating her audience on the richness of the broader community that surrounds her. Structured like an inimitable personal diary, “Venetia” is imbued with an intimacy, warmth and transparency impossible to resist. Hara, an ancient village on the outskirts of Kyöto, each episode is a meditative philosopher’s walk through Japan’s fleeting past and disappearing cultural memory. With each glimpse into this enchanting realm the show reveals Japan — long stereotyped as a nation of robotic office workers devoid of creativity and individuality — as deeply human and grounded in the timelessness of its historical past.
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Hasu fires his earthenware after spending months and years to mature the Iga clay. His distinctive products are designed for serving food and Venetia savors his creations together with his home cooking. The kind hospitality of her old friends fills her with a sense of well-being. Venetia lives in Ohara, Kyoto Prefecture, appreciating each season.
With the severe winter just around the corner, Venetia enjoys the calm and fruitful fall season in Ohara. She arranges flowers from her garden and makes apple compote with her daughter. Another fall delicacy she finds at a morning market is mackerel sushi, with Ohara historically known for this fish. She decides to have her long-broken toy bus fixed so that her grandchildren can play with it. She befriends the couple running a woodworking shop she visited and digs up potatoes in their garden.
09 A Beautiful Spring Dawn
Tono, where horses are integral to local life, reminds her of her horse-riding days back home. There, a couple about her age show her clothes made with a local technique and baskets made with tree barks, reaffirming the value of handcrafted life. She tries cooking a local delicacy hittsumi with hand-picked mushrooms and enjoys dinner with them.
One of the singular delights of sheltering in place is the stumbling across hidden gardens on the internet that in the fast-paced rush of ordinary times would have remained unexplored. In 1971, at the age of 19, Stanley-Smith fled her aristocratic roots in the U.K. To wander the earth searching for a more meaningful purpose in her life. Her travels led her to India and then to Japan where she started an English-language school and fell in love with a country that would become her home for the next forty years. Venetia is a real herbologist with more than 150 useful herbs in her Ohara, Kyoto garden. She gives a public reading in English about the wisdom and efficacy of herbs.
She gathers twigs for her wood-burning stove and makes 3 kinds of herbal tea with olive, lemon myrtle and marjoram to overcome the cold. In her garden, she plants winter-hardy Christmas Roses. Curious about the demon tile in her garden, she visits a Kyoto tile maker who carefully polishes the tile with a metal scraper to create the style's unique glossy finish. She also sees the production of the shoki ornaments that decorate rooftops in Kyoto. Share Venetia Stanley-Smith’s seasonal living in rural Kyoto, as she introduces us to local people, produce, cooking and crafts. During her summer trip to Okinawa Prefecture, Venetia visits a coffee farm in the mountains, with increasingly more farmers growing coffee in this area.
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. British-born Venetia lives a handcrafted life in Ohara, Kyoto Prefecture. She appreciates fall blossoms in her garden and makes apple compote with her daughter.
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. She has been a herb expert since childhood and has edited a book about edible wild herbs.
The taste of pure muscovado, made only from sugarcane juice, impresses her. Autumn is taking hold in the Ohara district of Kyoto. Venetia's gardening now consists of preparations for the coming spring.
As “Venetia” concluded its 10th season in 2019, 69-year-old Stanley-Smith’s journey took an unexpected turn once again. Because of her failing eyesight and memory, the host lost her ability to cook or visit with her long brocade of friends; even the simplest tasks now required the assistance of her husband and extended family. The show has since gone on an indefinite hiatus with its future yet to be determined. Venetia lives surrounded by her herbs in the mountain community of Ohara in Kyoto Prefecture but comes from an aristocratic family in England. A visit to her homeland in the summer of 2010 was also an opportunity to look back on her life so far.
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.
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