It has begun.

The water has now saturated the soil and left three inch’s of standing water. Most of the rice has settled in the soil.

My first experiment was conducted following instructions found at ehow.com

My first experiment in growing rice indoors. Using organic short grain brown rice grown in Italy and purchased from Matta’s Internation Foods 

The BBC news report ‘Tokyo office workers turn into rice farmers’ inspired me to experiment with growing rice indoors.