Dear reader,

The Story of the Nest

Haruki Shimizu opened Plant Care Nest in the spring of 2019 in a narrow shopfront on Tanbabashi-suji, a street in Fushimi that most people walk past on the way to somewhere else. He'd spent the previous six years working at a wholesale nursery in Uji, learning which plants survived the Kyoto summer and which ones didn't, and why. The shop started with forty plants, a folding table, and a handwritten sign. The first week, three people came in. One of them bought a small Haworthia and came back the following Saturday with a question about watering. That felt like enough to keep going.

The first week, three people came in. That felt like enough.