Introduction to the Xiwang Banana Garden Banana Planting Base
One of Xiwang Banana Garden's big summer activities, besides its study-tour programs in Taiwan, China, is its collaboration with community schools to promote banana culture camps, giving local children the chance to gain roots and cultural heritage through rural life. Through hands-on activities and group living, the community's older youths lead the children across land that is both familiar and strange to us, filling the children with wonder and emotion.
In addition, we also prepare our own homemade banana cake, letting the children connect with the farmers. In rural areas, barter exchange is the most sincere form of human relationship: sharing each other's crops and exchanging each other's hearts, leaving behind the law of ”transaction” and opening up the value of ”exchange”. Children then learn healthy human relationships from rural life, and on the other hand, farmers get the chance to interact with these community children, feel hope, and open their hearts together, giving community interaction another layer of development.
Further Reading
- Taiwan Youth Banana official websitehttp://youthbanana.blogspot.tw/
- Taiwan Youth Banana Xiwang Banana Garden:https://www.newsmarket.com.tw/blog/6389/
- Xiwang Banana Garden contract farming and adoption:https://www.newsmarket.com.tw/blog/10121/
- Xiwang Banana Garden related news:http://youtu.be/lu9UNtIQXLQ