Mr. Masafumi Oki, who is active in a wide range of fields, including dairy farming, product processing, and runs restaurant business at Tom Milk Farm in Toyosaka-cho, Higashihiroshima City.

He is grateful for the blessings of cows and deals with "life" every day.
He also wants to be a place that is close to the community and consumers. Based on this belief, he continues to challenge the future with a variety of new senses and is working on the dairy business.

"Cows are just amazing.”

These words of Mr. Oki have a strong power.

For example, an egg laid by a chicken. This is something that originally becomes life.

When human beings eat eggs, they are eating life.

Dairy cows, on the other hand, eat grass and produce milk.

Milk is normally consumed by calves, but there are some breeds of cows that can produce more than they need. Some cows are able to produce more milk than they need, and that part is given back to the human race.

They eat grass that people cannot eat and produce milk that makes people stronger.

Dairy cows have the precious value of being able to sustain the lives of living creatures without endangering them. Mr. Oki says that we must not let them die out.

He also has a goal to "start a dairy farm in this area.”

It is true that it is easier to do dairy farming on a large scale if you go to a large area or so-called depopulated area.

However, he says that Tom Milk Farm has grown so far by working closely with the local community.

Even during the mad cow disease epidemic in 2001, the local community was concerned about livestock pollution, which made it more difficult to expand the farm. So, he has been working to improve the farm's work lines. In this way, he has been able to overcome the difficulties by working closely with the local community to create a farm that is open to community.

He opened farm to the public and held a farm festival to create interaction between the local community and general consumers as well.

He has received a lot of support through understanding and sharing, and this desire is what drives him.

Tom Milk Farm is a place that provides necessary learning to people.

“Rather than selling and making products, it is also important for primary industries to help consumers understand what I do. In this day and age, when the number of people engaged in primary industry is decreasing, this is a job that needs to be done more and more”, he said.

Stay close to community, consumers, and communicate the value.

In order to find more happiness in the future, we will continue to build farms in society.