Woodlands Secondary School

Singapore Woodlands Secondary School's forty students and teachers were at Toucheng Leisure Farm last Sunday and stayed for a 2 days and 1 night.

Their photos published here will speak how they spent the day and night at the Farm.

Every week we have guests from Singapore be it students, teachers or those who just want to enjoy the fresh, clean, relaxing atmosphere of Toucheng Leisure Farm.


Like this couple, also from Singapore who spent a 3e days and 2 nights at the Farm.

What are you waiting for?

Visit our website:www.tcfatm.com.tw/click English for more information.

Malaysia's Training Com.Asia.Sdn.Bhd.

More than one hundred guests from Malaysia, visited Toucheng Leisure Farm last Sunday
(Oct. 23) and stayed for the night.


The Training Co. Asia.Sdn.Bhd. of Malaysia had been in the training service for many years.



Here are some pictures taken during their stay.



















Their company's philosophy is:

Work together, manage together and share together.

The Tourism Bureau especially sent the Atayal Aboriginal Dance Troupe to entertain the guests the evening of their visit and invited them to join the dance.

We look forward to more Malaysian guests in the future.

Come to Toucheng Leisure Farm and spent some time to enjoy the natural environment in a Farm setting.

Welcome.

White butterfly flower

Hedychium coronarium or white butterfly ginger lily is a native of India. Its sweet, fresh fragrance in bloom is a real treat on summer warm evenings or autumn cool nights.



Look at its flowers, if I can send you by e-mail its fragrance, you, too, can share the aromatic scent of this white flower!

At this time of the year, the country side especially here at Toucheng Leisure Farm, the ginger lily with its white flower over its green leaves is a beautiful scene to behold. Because its scenery is a relaxing sight to behold, one is "forced" to stop and breathe its fragrance.

Its white and pure flower is shaped like a butterfly, so its name - white butterfly ginger lily! Summer till autumn is blooming time for this flower. Even the simple moth is attracted to its flower at night!

With Taiwan golden rain tree's red capsule (fruit) and ginger lily's white fluttering flowers - Fall is a romantic season, worth stopping and pausing, just feel the cool autumn at the countryside!

Come and smell this aromatic atmosphere near the butterfly ginger lily at Toucheng Leisure Farm!

Welcome!~

Pai Family from Singapore

The Pai Sisters, their niece and their father with his Myanmar caretaker visited Toucheng Leisure Farm this Tuesday (Oct. 18) for a day tour.









Their visit was made possible through Julie, a Travel Agent who introduce them the Farm with all its activities.

Just imagine an eighty five (85) year old grandfather printing his Chinese name on a T-shirt printing activity with his left hand! Unbelievable! Although he sits on a wheelchair, he can still try to hold the brush and paint. His mind is clear and can communicate with his daughters and grandchildren.

Are you planning to enjoy the holidays with your family?

Toucheng Leisure Farm is the perfect place to stay!

Visit our website to plan for an unforgettable stay!

www.tcfarm.com.tw/click English



Welcome!

Saturday night dance party

In accordance with the law prohibiting the flying of sky lanterns, Toucheng Leisure Farm is an obedient citizen, who always follows the law.




But that does not terminate the fun. Instead we organize a new activity.









Especially the dance-loving, fun-liking, or a just being a "wall flower" spectator, you will enjoy the Saturday night dance party at Toucheng Leisure Farm.

With out activity group members as prime movers and starters. who can resist the enticement of dancing or swaying with the rock and roll music or samba. or cha cha or waltz, you name it!

Why not spend a Saturday night at the Farm on your holiday? Rest assured of a restful sleep after the relaxing exercise. with the night owls cooing, or crickets singing then wake up with the roosters cocking, and the blue magpie kwak, kwaking!

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

Welcome!

Carefree Goose

At the country side there are many domesticated fowls. Geese are one of them. At Toucheng Leisure Farm we raise geese, and they also raise their family here. Father gander and mother goose lived here for several years already.

Many times they are going around the area and enjoy a carefree and leisurely life.

Do you know that the Chinese raise geese for three reasons?

First: their meat is deliciously palatable.

Secondly: they can guard your house just like dogs, bite the intruders!

Thirdly: their droppings is a repellent for snakes.

Ducks, geese and swans are water fowls belonging toe the biological family of Anatidae. They are small to large sized birds with a general body which are broad and elongated. Geese' necks are long depending on their species. Their legs are short and webbed feet.

Anatids are vocal birds, whose sound ranges from quacks, honks squeaks or trumpet-like sounds. Females has deeper voice than males.

At Toucheng Leisure Farm, they always greet guests with their chorus as a welcoming gesture.

Come to the Farm for a personal experience of these special birds.

Welcome!

Farm's International Guests

Today, (Oct. 10) is a special for Taiwan, it's the 100Th year of the Founding of the Republic of China.





Today, some foreign guests visited Toucheng Leisure Farm to spend a free day and be close to nature.








Look at the pictures I took as they toured around the Farm feeding the goats, watching the water buffaloes and the newly born calf.

















They live in Taipei with their families and work there, too.











They come from different countries like Argentina, India, Japan, Switzerland and Tibet.











We watched the "human faced" spider as it was trying to throw out the leaf after it realized it is not tasty at all!




The white paper butterfly was dancing around the vine (parsonsia laevigata) as we passed by, unfortunately, the rain prevented us from seeing the real caterpillar and pupa, though there were pictures to demonstrate the metamorphosis of a butterfly.


How about spending a few hours at Toucheng Farm on your free day?

There are many nature's wonder you can discover!


Welcome!

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

Rice paddies weeding

Last month, the Farmer transplanted rice seedlings in the rice paddies, and now they have grown taller, so does the weeds! They rob the nutrients reserved only for the rice plant. That's why the Farmer is now busy weeding!











Weeding, is a tedious job for a Farmer. He has to wear straw hat, soak his feet barefooted in the muddy rice paddies, bend his waist to pull up the weeds, but burying them again to serve as fertilizer. It is "killing two birds with one stone"!

When we werechildren, we were told to" eat up every grain of rice in the bowl"! We must be grateful to the Farmer for the rice we eat. It"s all his labor: planting rice grain, then transplanting the seedlings to the rice paddies, weeding and harvesting. Under the heat of the sun, usually all day long! So, each rice grain is like a tiny white pearl, too precious to be wasted away!

At the green and glossy field, the Farmer does his job day after day. Weeding is part of the rice production process, following it no matter how tiresome, only then he can be assured of a plentiful harvest.

After the weeding process, he can watch the rice plant grow taller and wait for the rice grain

to appear and full, ready for a bountiful harvest!

Toucheng Leisure Farm has a rice culture area where one can act as a farmer for a day.

If you visit us, you can join the activity of transplanting rice seedlings in the rice paddies.

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

A new born calf

Toucheng Leisure Farm is blessed with a new arrival - a cute calf!





Here is the picture of the newly born just a few days old, beside the mother cow.











Asian domestic water buffalo, (Bubalus bubalis) is a useful animal and a farmer's best friend!





Their dung is used as fertilizer and when dried can be used as fuel.








An adult water buffalo can grow up to 300 - 600 kilograms. Females (cow) can weigh up to 800kg. and males (bull) up to 1,200 kg.

Their gestation period is 10 - 11 months. They usually give birth to single offspring but twins can be possible. Their sexual maturity varies, for bulls it takes 18 months but for cows it could take up to 3 years.

(Thanks to Yahoo for the information).

Look at the cutest thing at Toucheng Leisure Farm right now!

Would you like to see it? Hurry, you will miss the chance if you do it later!



Welcome! It's a chance of a life time!

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