Spring Festival 2015, Day 3

At Toucheng Leisure Farm, a display of special dishes and fruits on a corner to remind guests of their significance during the  Chinese New Year festivities.

Like the glutinous rice cake: which is called "niangao" which means: "getting higher year by year"!

Good fortune fruits: oranges especially for its round "fullness"

and golden "wealth" meanings!

                                Red is significant during the new year as it signifies energy, good wishes and                                                                                    
                                                                      luck  for the new year!

Chinese Lunar New Year 2015 Day 1

Today is the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year 2015. It is also called the Spring Festival and the most important feast celebrated during the year by all Chinese worldwide.

Comparing it to Christtmas and New year of the western world is easy to understand how the Chinese

celebrate this feast.

It is a time for family, friends and food!

A 12-year cycle of animal zodiac is followed.

This year is the year of the goat or sheep.

 And doors are decorated  with red, a symbol of luck and prosperity.

like the photo below of Toucheng Leisure Farm's entrance of the

front desk and dinning room.

Some photos will be published as we celebrate the whole festivities this week!

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Spring Festival 2015, day 2

Everyday during the Spring Festival, here at Toucheng Leisure  Farm we entertain our Guests with an activity called "Lao Jie" or "Old Street".

Today, day 2 of the Chinese New Year, Ill show you how we have fun .

Every one, old and young, boy or girl, can join the fun, look how they participated 

in the games and received prizes smilingly!

These games were played by the elders every Chinese New Year celebrations and now the next generation plays with them and this tradition is handed to the next generations.....

Fun isn't it? 

We do this activities every Spring Festival at Toucheng Leisure Farm!

Come and celebrate with us this rich tradition!

Taipei European School English Section II

The students of Taipei European School English Section II posing with our founder, Madame Cho.

 

Group photo of the Teachers and Students of the Taipei European School English Section.

 

They also prepared the turnip cake DIY!

 

Here they posed in front of the mud hut.

 

And tried the rope making activity using hay.

 

We thank them for spending a day at Toucheng Leisure Farm.

 

Hope to see you again! 

Taipei European School (English Section I)

Teachers and Students from Taipei European School visited Toucheng Leisure Farm

today January 13.

Introducing the vegetable gardens for growing carrots and other green vegetables.

They made the Steamed turnip cake DIY!

 And brought some home to taste!

Watch them in action transplanting rice seedlings in the rice paddies.

Pulling the stone grinder was fun but not easy, right?

          
 Thanks for visiting our Farm, hoping to see you again next time. We will learn more about Farming and have some fun, too!

Our Farm's Business Center

To accomodate the needs of our guests, Toucheng Leisure Farm added a special Business Center in its multi-service room. Just step away from the corridor, its accessibility is mich desired.



Books in English, Chinese or other languages are available for reading. Travel guides to different countries are also in hand to serve one's needs.



The Center is complete with a computer for accessibility purposes.

Next time you visit us, ask for the Business Center, you will surely find it easily!

Welcome!

Lasianthus formosensis Matsumura

This blue coffee-like “bean" plant is a genus of flowering plant belonging to the family Rubiaceae and grows at Toucheng Leisure Farm.

 

This is one of the hundred of species and endemic to Taiwan as its second name suggest.

 

Its uses is also unknown and how it grows is registered under the Flora of China.

 

 

 

 

 

   See for yourself this special plant.

New arrival - water buffalo calf

Water buffaloes are very essential to our Farm. Traditionally, they are a Farmer's helper 

at the  rice  paddies.

Nowadays, water buffaloes provide us with milk which are processed to make the soft cheese like Mozzarella in Italy. Water buffaloes' milk has high content of fatty acids and proteins. Watered-down buffalo milk is used as a cheaper alternative to regular milk.

Water buffaloes can also affect our environment in two ways, positively or negatively:

Positively - they ca manage uncontrolled vegetation growth in and around natural wetlands.

Negatively - in uncontrolled circumstances, they can cause environmental damage such as trampling vegetation, disturb birds and reptile nestling sites and spread exotic weeds.

(Thanks to Wikipedia for the information).

          This month we are blessed with a new arrival at Toucheng Leisure Farm - a water buffalo calf,
an additional to the family!
 They give pleasure to the numerous guests who come and watch them soak at the pool or feed them with grasses growing at the Farm.

Dominican School， Taipei

Teachers and Children from Taipei Dominican School visited Toucheng Leisure Farm this Thursday .
They are Elementary pupils  from Grades one to Grades three.

Here they are during their short visit:

In front of the mud hut.

Feeding goats.

It's snack time!

Picking oranges from the orchard.

Lunch time at the Farm!

Some more photos are published at our Photo Album section/Albums.

Take a look and copy your favorite pics.

Thank you for coming, see you again next year!

Japanese Guests at the Farm

 

Toucheng Leisure Farm welcomes the International Community to come.

 

This time its the Japanese!

 

 

Here they are enjoying a sumptuous lunch at the Farm's diner.

 

 

 

 

 

Everyone is welcome at Toucheng Leisure Farm.

 

When are you planning to come?

 

Make sure to reserve a room and enjoy the sounds of nature from

dawn to dusk!