Round-the-Island Nanao Stop (Part 2): A Jiang and His Natural Fields
Island Circuit Stop Six: Nan'ao, Yilan (Nan'ao Natural Farm)
My irregular itinerary
| 12/01~01/03 | Jinshan | The Shepherd Boy (making old-fashioned steamed buns) |
| 01/04~02/16 | Nan'ao | Nan'ao Natural Farm (farm work peanuts and sugarcane) |
| 02/16~02/28 | Xiulin | Hualien artist-in-residence Delo (helping the artist-in-residence with performances) |
| 02/28~03/24 | Hualien | colorful taiwan hostel (changing bed sheets, basic hostel work) |
| 03/25~03/31 | Taroko | (Taroko It Turned Out to Be Like This B&B) |
| 04/01~04/12 | Nan'ao | Nan'ao Natural Farm (rice transplanting, video production) |
| 04/13~04/28 | Taoyuan | Taoyuan Piyao Tribe (Provincial Highway 7) |
| 05/01~05/31 | Zhushan | Sky's Courtyard |
| 06/01~07/30 | Hualien | River tracing assistant |
| 08/01~08/30 | Fuli | (Dark Tribe)picking daylilies |
| 09/01~09/30 | Orchid Island | Still don't know what I'll be doing |
Nan'ao video production
Honestly, I greatly admire Ajian's concept of natural farming, so I helped make a short film, and I also wanted friends who don't know about natural farming to understand it a little better. Of course, I also hope to share it along the way, natural farming, with the friends in my travel stories.
Our Water, Our Island
Our land, and the most fundamental change to our land, is our water. Taiwan's economy has grown upward, but Taiwan's water has grown downward. From water you could drink straight from the stream, we have shifted to needing to buy water. This kind of shift happened invisibly, so is this really growth? Ajian of Nan'ao Natural Farm tells you.
Our Fields, Our Island
Because the water problem extends to what we eat, water and food are closely connected. We use huge amounts of pesticides and fertilizers so that things can be bigger and things can be better, but is our diet really healthy? Ajian of Nan'ao Natural Farm tells you.
Coexisting with Living Beings, Natural Farming
What rice paddies fear most is the invasive golden apple snail. You have to learn how to coexist with nature. With natural farming, we often think of them as pests, but under natural farming they are actually beneficial. Want to know how the rice you eat yourself can be grown using the concept of natural farming? Ajian of Nan'ao Natural Farm tells you~!!!
Be the Master of Your Own Food, Contract Farming and Cultivation by Proxy
Grow your own rice to eat yourself. The method of contract farming and cultivation by proxy, a new idea. What attitude do people hold toward the content of contract farming and cultivation by proxy? Ajian of Nan'ao Natural Farm tells you.
In 1939, Paul Muller discovered that DDT was a highly effective insecticide. It quickly became the most widely used pesticide in the world. However, in the 1960s, DDT was found to impair the reproductive capacity of many fish-eating birds, thus posing a major threat to biodiversity. Rachel Carson and her bestselling book Silent Spring explained in detail the major impact that the use of chemical pesticides and insecticides has on the food chain and the ecological environment. DDT is currently banned in more than 86 countries, but in some developing countries it is still used to kill mosquitoes and other insects that act as vectors of infectious diseases, in order to prevent malaria and some tropical diseases.
Pesticide use has grown 50-fold since 1950, with annual usage of about 2.5 million tons. (Reposted from Wikipedia)
Further Reading