2015 Food in Guandu: The Scaly-breasted Munia Family Is Now Recruiting

In recent years, food safety has flashed a red light, and reflecting on how the food on the market is filled with a mix of real and fake chemical and processed ingredients, we have almost forgotten how food grows from the land.

To help everyone get reacquainted with where food comes from, adopt healthy eating concepts, and walk together into the rice paddies to enjoy the scenery, Guandu Nature Park invites you to join your family and friends to learn about the fascinating rice food culture, understand environmentally friendly farming methods and food and agriculture issues (seasonal fruits and vegetables, friendly farming, food additives), and work together on the same plot of land, observing the growth of rice seedlings through the four seasons and experiencing the deep emotion of close contact with the land.

Activity Schedule

01/17 (Sat) or 01/18 (Sun) 1000-1230 Pre-trip briefing – activity introduction, interview
02/14 (Sat) 0930-1630 Seedling raising – group games, seedling raising experience
03/28 (Sat) 0930-1630 Spring plowing – rice transplanting, digging field ditches, digging paddy ridges
05/23 (Sat) 1000-1700 Summer cultivation – pest removal, weeding by hand, making scarecrows
07/25 (Sat) 1000-1700 Autumn harvest – harvesting, threshing, winnowing experience
11/14 (Sat) 0930-1630 Winter storage – making rice cracker carvings, soil piling, kiln firing
12/12 (Sat) 1000-1430 Harvest festival – making fa gao (steamed rice cakes), results presentation

Harvest and rewards

• You will become a member of the "Guandu Nature Park Scaly-breasted Munia Family" Facebook group and receive a family badge
• Each family will receive a four-season paddy field learning handbook and folder
• At the end of the year, you will receive the "2015 Autumn Harvest Taro-Scented Rice" that you planted yourself

Who can join

The general public and parent-child families (children aged ten and above preferred), 40 people total, first come first served.

Activity fee

• HSBC (Taiwan) Commercial Bank Co., Ltd. is sponsoring part of the cost, at a 30% discount price of 3500 per person.
• When registering, pay the full price of 5000 yuan per person; after attending the 2015/12/12 Harvest Festival in full and completing the results presentation and sharing task, a deposit of 1,500 yuan will be refunded.

How to participate

An interview screening system is used; you must first register for the 2015/1/17 (Sat) or 1/18 (Sun) briefing session, and provide information on all selected members at the time of registration.

I want to register for the 1/17 briefing session

I want to register for the 1/18 briefing session