Harvest in fall and menace to food deficiency

Summer vegetables like pumpkins, sweet melons and so forth have almost been all harvested for now. Vegetables in cubercutaceae requires large space, I have again learned this summer. They have elongated their vines enormously in rainy weather when I could not check them. Some of them have become like jungle. Some pumpkins are growing in the hedge like this or in the other bushes of trees.

It was also tricky to decide when sweet melons should be harvested. Some of them were overmatured. Five fruits were harvested while a few are still in the farm. They used to be eaten by crows. But no damage from them this year. Maybe, our cat, Hikaru has successfully surveyed them not to come. They are too many for us to eat as dessert every evening. One will be brought to a friend of mine while the other will be given to an employee at my wife's office. Hopefully, they turn out to be well ripened.  

Pumpkins are like in festival. I have not counted them all yet. Maybe, around 2 dozens. 

I have tried all the recipies with these pumpkins. Simmered pumpkin for a few times, which is a common family menu in Japan. One of them was fried. And a few other menus. This pumpkin soup was new to me. Rich flavored delicious soup. Even though I won't repeat it so often. It is different from our tradition.

Now I am getting ready for fall/winter vegetables. Using compost, but least fertilizer, I plow a series of tiny farms in the garden. The main species is potatoe. The brassica family would follow soon. Onions should not be forgotten. 

The global warming and the occurence of war are threatening the production of farming foods world wide. Our country is one of them threatened in the worst way. For the people in our country, worsening inflation is another critical issue since the food self sufficiency rate is only 37%. Our country is told to suffer more than African countries if world wide deficiency of food is realized. In this situation, our government is eager at military expansion. They are manufacturing more than 1000 of middle ranged missiles which will be deployed in the southern islands aiming at China. Most of the people aren't aware of this crisis, either.

I could do only little against that crisis. All I could do is just plowing the ground and seeding vegetables there.