What story does Tamagame's Thanksgiving Tea Party tell?
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A remote rural village, plain old farmers, wholesome whole grains
Not a darling of the media spotlight
Yet the best material for the media to convey "truth, goodness and beauty"
Event name: Field Turtle Thanksgiving Tea Party
(Everyone welcome)
Organizer: Field Turtle Project
Time: 2015/11/19 (Thu) 2 p.m.
Location: Beside Dai-an Temple, Jiushe Village, Zhongxi Borough, Erlin Township, Changhua County (Field Turtle Project trial plot)
Event summary:
- Background of the Thanksgiving Tea Party:
Field Turtle Project is a mission to "give back to the homeland, live wholesomely and do good, and protect the land." 4 field turtles (old farmers), with an average age of 68, watch over 2 jia 5 fen of land, organically growing wholesome whole grains, including purple rice, millet, buckwheat, adlay and red quinoa. To thank kind people nationwide for three years of sponsorship and subscription, the field turtles are holding their first Thanksgiving Tea Party especially before the temple deities, and presenting "amaranth rice," trial-planted for the first time nationwide.
- Features of the Thanksgiving Tea Party:
Thanksgiving with a tea party instead of a cocktail party
A temple instead of a hotel as the venue
Agriculture, landscape, ecology and culture combined
Heaven, earth, gods and people are all objects of gratitude
- The four major themes of the Thanksgiving Tea Party --
(1) Presenting a new wholesome whole grain: amaranth rice, the only trial planting area nationwide.
(Appearing for the first time in Taiwan, China, something you have absolutely never seen, please come and photograph it first)
(2) Witness the Field Turtle environmental philosophy: no bird netting over the millet fields, and converted solar-powered human-shaped bird scarers.
(A new vision for resolving the human-bird war)
(3) View the white buckwheat flower sea: the best flowering period is 11/10~12/10.
(2 hectares of white flower sea, complementing the Pingpu people's Pool of Life)
(4) View the rural historical scenery: Erlin Jiushe Dai-an Temple and the Pingpu people's Pool of Life.
(Temples, the large pond and Pingpu relics are all stories)
Contact: Field Turtle Project director Huang Qingxiang
Retired professor, National Sun Yat-sen University
0921-841-761
http://www.facebook.com/turtletaiwan