Couple dreams of revitalizing Fukushima with Jersey milk

Being surrounded by the sounds of mooing is just one of the perks of the job for Daisuke and Nana Shimizu, a young couple running a dairy farm in a village in Japan's northeastern Fukushima Prefecture.Although the wider Tohoku region has been recovering from the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck in March 2011, the reputation of farm produce from Fukushima has remained tarnished by the nuclear crisis triggered by the disaster. But the Shimizus hope to repair some of that damage with their specialty Jersey milk.The couple's Farm Tsubasa is located in Samegawa village, which sits roug…READ FULL ARTICLE