Wulai smallholders survive Typhoon Soudelor and will attend the Footprints in the Field market

Typhoon Soudelor battered Wulai, and although outside supplies kept pouring in, most airdrops consisted of instant noodles, canned goods and biscuits, with fresh vegetables in short supply. Fortunately, Wulai has long had a group of small farmers who practice eco-friendly farming on terraced fields first cleared during the Japanese colonial period. Before the roads were reopened, they walked past fallen rocks to carry vegetables out and share them with the stranded indigenous people, and tomorrow (Saturday) they still plan to set up a stall at the "Footprints in the Field Market" at the Taipei Museum South Gate Park, not beaten down by the disaster in the least, saying outright, "We are very resilient!"

Eco-friendly farming sustains livelihoods, abandoned terraced fields come back to life

The couple Bi-ling and his wife did not forget their weekly promise to consumers either, and tomorrow they will still overcome every obstacle to set up their stall at the Taipei Museum South Gate Park. Although he says it is because he wants to "see some new Taiwan dollars," Taiwan Yuanwei staff member Liu Chia-wen says that after deducting fuel costs and a whole day's stall wages, the farmers hardly earn anything at all. "But since there are vegetables, they just don't want to see them go to waste."

Besides the "Footprints in the Field Market", Li Hsiu-chu's log-cultivated mushrooms will also be sold at the "On the Ground On the Ground" shop, and consumers can buy more to cheer the farmers on.