Indigenous Tribe Stands Out Amid Oil Scandal, Turning Crisis into Opportunity

[Oil safety issues come and go - how can we still ”enjoy oil back and forth with delight”?]

Location: Hualien.

Here there is a group of easygoing, optimistic oil farmers who have spread a vast two-tone natural carpet of green and purple across the ground. The carpet is made neither of nylon nor wool, but of ”bitter tea seeds” (Camellia oleifera seeds).

"We use pesticide-free bitter tea seeds, follow the traditional method of cold-pressing the first extraction of tea oil, which finally becomes the pesticide-free bitter tea oil we have now," says Pastor Wen of Lunshan Tribe.

Then the practical problem arises…

We know it is very natural and can also improve the local life and economy. Even if we agree with Pastor Wen's philosophy, how do we let the people who need it know how good it is? Without the budget of a large corporation, we can only work within limited resources, cooperating with Shanliang Social Enterprise, and with a ”good-good” mindset (good-good: mutual good + beautiful), introduce it to people who need good oil.

A while ago at the City Super supermarket, I saw someone buy several bottles of imported olive oil at 3,000-4,000 yuan in one go, with a whole cart exceeding ten thousand yuan. After asking out of curiosity, I learned: "With oil these days, you simply don't know who to trust… I have no choice but to buy the most expensive."

If the most expensive equals the best and the safest, how are ordinary people supposed to cope? So we offer our modest contribution and have planned an event that is ”a bit rich but not too greasy”

"Give you the best 'oil'"

Of course, just saying it is good ourselves is not enough to be trusted, so let us look at a TV report from Formosa TV:

Lunshan bitter tea oil is a hit, orders surge and supply falls short of demand

As for the road of the Lunshan Tribe - oil seeds and returning home, we are also thinking about these three points:

1. Support Lunshan Tribe products
2. How to help young people return home
3. How to support natural coexistence

Next, after we have organized these suggestions, we will provide them to Shanliang Social Enterprise.

Let those who can contribute money, effort and ideas all work together and divide the labor, and as long as it can get one step closer to something beautiful, we will give it a try, to carry on Pastor Wen's philosophy and continue to pass on goodness…