Following the Taiwan Blue Magpie to Discover the Fun of Tea: Dot Project Mingcha Autumn Eco-Working Holiday
What is the "Circle.Pivot Plan"?
The circle represents the relationship between people and living things, like a circle that cannot be missing any corner; the pivot represents the balance point, how to seek the balance point between people and living things and achieve a symbiotic environment. Circle and pivot sound the same as "origin" (yuan dian), and also symbolize a return to one's original intention. The concept of the Satoyama Initiative (Note 1) is the same as our philosophy, so a group of us partners will seek places in Taiwan, China that follow the spirit of the Satoyama Initiative, farming in an environmentally friendly way, providing diverse habitats for animals and plants, and using travel to take everyone to explore these beautiful places together.
The first activity we are launching is Blue Magpie Tea, located in Pinglin, Taiwan, China. Pinglin is a tea-producing area and also a water source protection area. The New Rural Association, formed by the Graduate Institute of Building and Planning of National Taiwan University and local tea farmers, tries to integrate human culture and production into community conservation through a way that coexists with agricultural production and environmental conservation, seeking peaceful coexistence between people and nature. As a result, the local population of the Taiwan Blue Magpie has increased, and Taiwan Blue Magpie Tea was launched.
This time we will actually visit the local tea farmers' homes, and follow in their footsteps to pesticide-free tea gardens. There will be opportunities for in-depth interactive interviews with them, to understand how they cherish this land that nurtures them, and to observe the rich tea garden ecology of Pinglin, experiencing from the 'heart' and using the body to 'enjoy' the mountain village life of a sustainable environment.
In the slightly cool early autumn, take a sip of warm, mellow Oriental Beauty tea, and even the heart warms up. We sincerely invite everyone to join us for a light early autumn trip.
* Organizer: Wilderness Protection Association Taipei Branch Empowerment Group & Circle.Pivot Plan Team
* Activity date: September 27, 2014 (Sat)
* Activity location: Pinglin District, New Taipei City
* Number of participants: 20 people (the organizer reserves the final right of decision)
* Activity fee: 500 yuan per person, including insurance, lunch, transportation, etc.
* Itinerary introduction:
09:00 Tea garden farming: ecological explanation and tea garden care
10:30 Three lives fortunate ~ Satoyama Initiative and Giant Water Bug Rice (Note 2) Lecturer: Teacher Huang Yubo
12:00 Tea farmers' farming meal
13:00 Taiwan Blue Magpie Tea Revolution (Note 3) Lecturer: Secretary-General Huang Bojun
14:30 Old Street tour
15:30 Share yourself, me, and others
16:30 Visit Shiding Thousand Island Lake
18:00 Return fully loaded
* Lecturer introduction:
Teacher Huang Yubo
Current position: Head and General Manager of Observer Ecological Consulting Co., Ltd.
Director of the Resource and Environmental Protection Service Foundation
Consultant of the Taiwan Environmental Information Association
Member of the Shumeikeng Creek and Wayao Gully Remediation Advisory Committee of the New Taipei City Government
Teacher Huang Bojun
Current position: Founder of Taiwan Blue Magpie Tea
Head of New Rural Social Enterprise
Secretary-General of the Chinese Wild Bird Federation
Note 1: What is the Satoyama Initiative? http://www.swan.org.tw/activity/2012/wow/3-1.pdf
Note 2: The story of Giant Water Bug Rice http://giantwaterbug.blogspot.tw/p/blog-page_5692.html
Note 3: New Rural Association Taiwan Blue Magpie Tea https://www.facebook.com/bluemagpietea/info
Wilderness Protection Association Taipei Empowerment Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/271089496281625/
Circle.Pivot Plan https://www.facebook.com/CirclePivotPlan
To register, please click: http://ppt.cc/tT-v
If you have any questions, welcome to contact us
Inquiry phone: 0987-383-991 (Chunghwa Telecom) Xiao Si
E-mail: [email protected]
* Notes:
1. Those who register successfully will be notified of payment information. Please pay within three days after receiving the notice. If you do not receive the notice after many days, please take the initiative to call or write to ask, thank you!
2. Those who fail to report without reason or who leave the group or drop out midway will be deemed to have voluntarily given up, and no refund will be given
* Refund method:
1. Before the activity, if the activity is forced to be canceled due to irresistible factors such as natural disasters or road damage, 90% of the activity fee will be refunded. Thank you for sharing the upfront administrative costs with us.
2. If you withdraw seven working days (inclusive) or more before the activity day, part of the fee will be charged, and 80% of the activity fee will be refunded.
3. If you withdraw within six to one working days before the activity day, you may transfer your place. If you cannot find someone to transfer to, no refund will be given (the person transferred to must meet the activity rules). If you withdraw on the day of the activity for personal reasons, the place cannot be transferred and no refund will be given.
4. If the activity cannot take place due to special reasons of this association, please present the payment receipt and this association will process a full refund.
5. For those who choose bank transfer refunds, the transfer handling fee will be deducted from the refund amount.