FTV host at Toucheng Farm

A host of the Formosa TV, in Taiwan, visited Toucheng Farm today for a recording of advertising sponsored by the Taiwan Tourism Bureau.


It is indeed an honor for the Farm to be featured with its cultural, educational and touristic site.

Toucheng Farm has rice paddies especially made to teach the learner the rice culture and how rice is produced. Rice seedling are transplanted at the rice paddies actually in a hands-on- experience, so to really feel the hardships and joys of the Farmer as he produce rice for our tables daily.

Besides replanting the seedlings, one can feel the wet mud of the paddies, the minute seedlings, or positioning one's gum boots to balance or move backwards so as to keep your seedlings in a row.

Here is Jad, our host, explaining and also learning from our Farm's Teacher Kuo.

Besides the rice paddies they also visited the Farm's Winery. Here fruits are fermented into wine or vinegar. One can tour the wine cellar and learn the process of vinegar or wine making. The Winery is also a beautiful site of a restaurant on a mountain top. Here a simple but delicious meal for lunch or dinner is served. One can also spend an afternoon there for a cup of coffee or tea while crunching a homemade coffee with a close friend or family.

Hopefully, this recorded program will be aired in Asian countries like SIngapore and Malaysia to promote Taiwan as a prime tourism destination, particularly Toucheng Farm.

For more information, visit our website: www. tcfarm.com.tw/

Chinese New Year 2011 - day 5

We celebrate Chinese New Year or Spring Festival (because it always start at the beginning of spring) at Toucheng Farm joyfully.


This year 2011, the Chinese worldwide remembers the golden rabbit.

As usual, the most important holiday of the year is celebrated in fun, frolic, food, family and friends!

From today we continue the merriment until the 15Th day of the first month, which is also called the Lantern Festival.



Today, 3 young Malaysian women: Chue Ping, Sam and Karen (L to R) joined us to learn how to make plum jam DIY. Here they are with one of our teachers in the Farm.

They also participated in all the games and received gifts and prizes all along.

If you are looking for a relaxing place to stay, entertainment of various kind, or just to listen to the birds chirping or watching butterflies dancing, Toucheng Farm is the right place for you!

Visit our website: www.tcfarm.com.tw for more information.

Chinese New Year 2011 - day 3

Toucheng Farm is in full service and being kept alive by our very own Madame Cho. Without her the Farm could not have been born.


Now in its 20 years of existence, she will continue to keep on sharing its vast 110 hectares to the community of both local and foreign guests, who, like her loves nature and continue to fight for its preservation.


Here she is blowing the flaming charcoal to increase the temperature around to warm people during the cold winter.
Every dish served during the Chinese New Year has a significant meaning:

Nian Kao or big round cake symbolizes: going ever higher and higher every year!

Rice cake in a bowl symbolizes: prosperity.

Oranges are round: wholeness both for everyone and the family.

Turnip (good start in mandarin) : begin the year well and hopefully end well!

Here we have apples and oranges which are rounded and also symbolizes wholeness.

The Chinese has a very rich and lengthy tradition which is handed from generations to generations. Surely we will celebrate Chinese New Year for all ages!

Welcome to Toucheng Farm and celebrate with us these unique and rich customs and traditions.

Visit our website : www.tcfarm.com.tw/ for more information.

Chinese New Year 2011 - day 2

During the Chinese New year celebrations, the God of Wealth is always warmly welcomed.

Hoping that this year's riches, prosperity and wealth will accompany each one everyday.

Here at Toucheng Farm, he distributes candies and wishes all happiness and joy this year will bring.

You will see bunnies of all sorts: one you see below is made of wood, some are made of dried betel nut creation or golden bunny made of kumquats.

They are all Farm - themed creations.

Afternoons of the New Year are a reminiscence of the olden days, like games we used to play in the country when we were young, or tasting food we used to eat at grandmother's house.

These memories we share with our children and grandchildren, who will hand them on to the next generation.

Look at this grandma enjoying the games she used to play as a young girl!

Here is the huge bunny made of 600 kilos of ripe Kumquats!

It is 8 feet tall and 6 feet long. It could devour all the 20 kinds of vegetables and fruits around!

Come and see it actually!

The god of wealth is counting his riches for distribution!

That's what we did today, the second day of the New Year!

See you tomorrow!

Welcome to Toucheng Farm!

The Year of the Rabbit - 2011

Happy Chinese New Year everyone!

Kung Hsi Fa Tsai! ( in Mandarin).

Chinese New Year or Spring Festival is the most important celebration among the Chinese around the world every year.

Here in Taiwan, at Toucheng Leisure Farm, we welcome the year of the rabbit in a festive mood, and in a Farm -motiff.

Look at this huge rabbit! Do you know how and what it is made of?

You got it right! The Farm has kumquat orchard and it took 3 days to make the foundation so

that 600 kilos of ripe kumquats was inserted in each hole of the foundation.

This huge golden rabbit is 8 feet high and 6 feet long!

To make it more farm-like style, it was decorated with fruits, vegetables and many other farm products.

You should see and marvel for yourself this amazing creation!

There is still time to spend. Today is the second day of the Chinese New Year, Come, see and taste the sweet taste of the kumquat!

Welcome to Toucheng Farm!

Visit our website:www.tcfarm.com.tw/