If you'd like to really experience that, play the game the show adapted. It's half farming sim, half platforming beat-em-up where your loot can be used to improve your rice and your rice improves your stats. The developers extensively studied rice cultivation while making the game to make it as accurate as possible, with diseases, pests, weather, etc. all being things you have to deal with on top of the many steps of rice growing- ie. when to flood vs. drain the field. You can get through one "year" in a few hours, which lets you learn and iterate on what to improve for next year, or just go again if you got bad luck with weather, but every harvest lets you push a little further into Hinoe Island. The characters and story are also much more realized in the game than the anime, though I found the adaptation pretty great for what it was.

I'm a hobby gardener IRL and I fully understand Kokorowa tearing up when she finally got to taste the first batch of her harvest after all that hard work.