The Satoyama Neighbor Conservation Market opens on May 30. Don't miss it!

Most farm households in Satoyama grow fruits and vegetables or raise chickens and ducks,
for their own consumption, and if there is extra, they bring it out to sell,
we call such ingredients "Neighbor's."
In early summer, the peaches, plums and fruits of Satoyama neighbors gradually come into season,
besides enjoying them fresh, you can also pickle them into another kind of delicacy!
This time, the "Satoyama Neighbor's Conservation Market"
once again invites you to come along
to "eat good fruit, protect good forests"!

The "Satoyama Neighbor's Conservation Market," first held last Mid-Autumn Festival, is about to be held again in early summer this year on 5/30!

#Satoyama countryside, the diverse face of self-sufficiency!

The shallow mountain areas of Miaoli and Taichung, like Japan's "satoyama," have diverse environments and therefore diverse industries. The satoyama countryside itself is a relatively self-sufficient production system, and besides vegetables, rice, fruits, chickens, ducks, sheep and pigs, there is also milk, coffee, handmade bread, handmade woven crafts and more. Rural residents generally retain a willingness to share; surplus agricultural products are given to neighbors or taken to traditional markets to sell, and these "Neighbor's" products carry the warm human touch of the countryside. We believe that by holding a market, we can share with everyone the diverse industries of the satoyama countryside, as well as the warmth of "Neighbor's."

#Consumers are the greatest force driving environmentally friendly industries!

Over the past few years, "Satoyama Academy" has worked together with local fruit farmers, moving toward grass cultivation and farming methods that reduce pesticide use. These kinds of environmentally friendly industries actually play an important role in the conservation of the satoyama/Taiwan, China shallow mountain ecosystem, as well as in soil and water conservation and environmental protection. We believe that through the market, we can bring in consumer support, so that these environmentally friendly producers can walk more firmly on the right path, and it will also attract more farmers to join environmentally friendly farming methods, together protecting the ecological environment of the shallow mountains!

#So...

The "Satoyama Neighbor's Conservation Market" held just before last Mid-Autumn Festival was very well received. In early summer this year, in the season when satoyama households' peaches and plums are abundant, "Satoyama Academy" is making another effort and inviting everyone to come to the "Satoyama Neighbor's Conservation Market."

This "Satoyama Neighbor's Conservation Market Market" not only has vegetables, organic rice, makino bamboo shoots and honey grown by satoyama neighbors, but also baked goods made with local ingredients, locally made non-GMO soy products, fresh milk, local coffee beans, beautiful, elegant and practical shell ginger weaving and bamboo weaving crafts... and there are also partner groups coaching farmers on green-label agricultural products, and conservation groups are also invited to share with everyone cases of leopard cat conservation and protecting biodiversity through industry. In addition, for the peaches, plums and fruits abundant in early summer, we have opened a "Satoyama Pickling Classroom," inviting everyone to come and make seasonal peach and plum pickled delicacies!

On 5/30, the "Satoyama Neighbor's Conservation Market" will be held at Jiaopu Elementary School in Yuanli Township, Miaoli County, China (right at the 8K point of County Road 130, which runs from Yuanli Township to Sanyi Township). Start getting your shopping bags ready now and begin saving up your shopping money!

On 5/30, the "Satoyama Neighbor's Conservation Market," let us together use our spending to help environmental protection and ecological conservation!