Organic Farmers Market opens on February 16, with spring wine gathering at the Water Garden

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A truly shared market! Organic farmers invite supportive consumers to taste creative spring wine dishes!

Right after the joyful Spring Festival holiday comes the bustling annual market reopening and spring wine gatherings. Spring wine happens every year, but organic spring wine is a first! This time, to thank the many friends for their support over the past few months, which has allowed the ideal of a "market shared by farmers and consumers" to gradually take shape, the organic farmers of the purely organic "Water Garden Organic Farmers Market" will open on the first Saturday of the Spring Festival, the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. At the market in the Water Mist Garden Plaza of the Taipei Water Park, farmers and specially invited volunteer cooking teacher He Shuling will take charge of the kitchen, using ingredients provided by nearly twenty organic farms at the market to create all kinds of creative dishes, and inviting all supportive consumers to taste together at the organic market's opening spring wine gathering!

Farmers and a Cooking Teacher Take Charge of the Kitchen Organic Ingredients from Market Farms An Organic Market Spring Wine Like No Other!

To hold the spring wine gathering of the organic market, the farmers at this market not only each provided their own freshest, finest organic cooking ingredients, but also invited a cooking teacher to specially take charge of the kitchen on site, highlighting on-site creative dishes featuring each farm's ingredients at the market, making the market's spring wine gathering very different. As soon as consumers come to the market, they can taste distinctive dishes presented by different farms, including the Qingxin Garden organic melons and fruits grown by Vietnamese-born Ruan Qingxin, Dalolan's high-mountain pure vegan farming organic lettuce salad dishes, various organic wild vegetables from Tainan Canaan Land Organic Farm, red quinoa enzyme, organic moringa preparation packets, the pineapple bean soup base made from organic pineapples from Pingtung Hongqi Organic Farm, Dou Zhi Wei organic tofu and Wei Wan Tian organic soy milk homemade yogurt, vegetables from Gengji Organic Farm, LOHAS Organic Farm…and more, plus all kinds of the freshest seasonal organic fruits and vegetables, making the market opening not only lively, but also full of creativity, good food and human warmth.

The Solar Term Rain Water Is Coming Soon Farmers Begin Spring Plowing as All Things Grow and Nourish

February 18 on the Gregorian calendar marks the arrival of Rain Water, the second solar term of the new year. After the Rain Water solar term, temperatures begin to rise, but mornings and evenings remain relatively cold. This solar term is a good time for health preservation, and regulating the spleen and stomach will naturally be the focus. According to traditional Chinese medicine theory, the spleen and stomach are the foundation of acquired constitution and the source of qi and blood production. When spleen and stomach function is sound, the body makes full use of nutrients; otherwise, nutrition is lacking and constitution declines. According to the health preservation principle of "nourishing yang in spring and summer," Sun Simiao, the Tang dynasty king of medicine, also said: "In spring one should reduce sour flavors and increase sweet flavors to nourish the spleen qi." This emphasizes regulating the spleen and stomach during this solar term. Spleen and stomach regulation can, according to one's own condition, combine dietary adjustment, medicinal nourishment and balance of daily routine and rest. Dietary adjustment means that as the spring climate warms and mornings and evenings are colder, one should eat more fresh vegetables and fruits to replenish the body's water, and eat fewer greasy foods. One may eat more jujubes, Chinese yam, lotus seeds, Chinese chives, spinach and so on. In northern China, dietary therapy often favors congee, which can be made into lotus seed congee, Chinese yam congee, red date congee and so on; during this solar term it is best to eat as little meat as possible.

The market's first opening spring wine gathering must of course bring a different new atmosphere. In the opening event welcoming the Year of the Little Dragon, besides the spring wine prepared by the cooking teacher using ingredients of the solar term, there will also be spring wine good luck, giving every consumer a good-luck and auspicious start activity on site, so that every consumer can have a New Year's streak of good luck that day!

About the Water Garden Organic Farmers Market

This is the story of a group of farmers who are changing Taiwan, China through nature-friendly natural farming. And the end of the NTU Organic Farmers Market is the beginning of this story. When Taipei's only organic farmers market closed, it meant that a community linking land, ecology, farmers and the dining table would brew a deeper force; the farmers stood up by their own strength and, at the Water Garden in the NTU Gongguan commercial district, rebuilt a distinctive new organic cultural market.

Guided by the Agriculture and Food Agency of the Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan, and the Taipei Water Department, and assisted by the Taipei Cultural Exploration Association, the Water Garden Organic Farmers Market, founded through the self-reliance of high-quality organic farmers from all over Taiwan, China, includes many distinctive small organic farmers from various places, including Shifang Organic Farm, a Pinglin organic tea smallholder family making tea for four generations; the top-grade organic asparagus of Jiujiufeng from Qiu Shunnan, who went from a China Steel engineer to an asparagus expert; the Songye Garden Organic Natural Farm run by Liang Xiaoling, who abandoned medicine for farming; the top-grade organic emperor banana of Liu Huangbin, who went from professional soldier to banana expert; the top-grade organic pineapple of Hongqi, which refused a mainland order at double the price; LOHAS Organic Farm, run by an English teacher turned farmer; the simple honest man Ma Qinggong, who switched from Advanced Semiconductor Engineering to growing organic jujube and guava; the Eugenics Organic Farm, where international volunteers gather to cultivate together; the He Xinle Organic Farm red dragon fruit in the natural spring area of Zhuangwei, Yilan; the high-altitude Dalolan Organic Fruit and Vegetable Farm in Wufeng Township, Hsinchu, which emphasizes an all-plant farming method above the clouds; the Gengmutian Organic Farm, run by Zeng Weidi and his wife, who were once English cram school teachers and turned to the ideal of organic farming; the Chulu Organic Coffee, which irrigates coffee fields with deep ocean water; the Yuanyi Organic Farm, strictly selected by the Pingtung Banana Research Institute; the Qingxin Garden Organic Farm, specializing in cucumbers and various fruits and vegetables; the Baili Organic Farm, specializing in organic lotus root, tomatoes and mangoes; the Canaan Land Organic Farm, which practices the church's organic village; the Datong Organic Farm, which insists on healthy, non-toxic produce and also emphasizes environmental protection; the Grace Organic Farm, focusing on organic citrus fruits; the Ya Baobao Organic Farm with innovative refined plant cultivation; the Gengji Organic Farm from Chiayi, cultivating for more than twenty years; the Dou Zhi Wei Tofu Workshop, founded to support Taiwan, China's farmers in growing black beans and soybeans; the Wei Wan Tian Organic Tofu, made with the slightly alkaline natural water source of Hualien's Hou Mountain....and more.

Media contact: Water Garden Organic Farmers Market volunteer Cheng Wanjing 0961-080-890

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