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  • #44627
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    Does anyone know of any organic farms here in CD?  Or any info on farmers that allow one to rent a part of their land to grow crops?  I saw something on the awesome cctv station in BJ and people were doing that.  And recently here in CD there was some trade show or something like that that the organic farms were sponsors…I think.

    Anyone have any info on this…would really like to get involved with this to add another year to my life here in chiner… :)!

    #44628
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    I order my organic food from yidiantian.com

    aparently a farm right outside of chengdu. Also there’s anlong farm but they are very difficult to order from.

    #44712
    Avatar photoDaryl
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    hi,
    guy, I ,28, am a boy born in countryside in Shichuan and I have land in my hometown, where are you from?
    You can go to my hometown for genuine food with me when the next New Year is coming.

    #44725
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    Check out the iGarden restaurant at the basement of the Yuan Dong (Far East Mall) at tianfu square. They source their produce from a partner farm outside Chengdu city center. Also their food is pretty tasty and a nice healthy alternative.

    #44816
    Avatar photoKim Duistermaat
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    There are many ‘organic’ farms in Chengdu, the most famous being Sunyuki http://www.sunyuki.com/. South of Chengdu there is Hygeia farm http://www.hygeiafarm.com/. Both do home delivery of produce, and you can also visit the farm and buy their produce on site. At two of Sunyuki’s sites, you can also have lunch and participate in activities (booking required). There are several others but I don’t know their names. If you want to farm your own plot you might be able to arrange that with Hygeia, I think I’ve heard about that.

    #44829
    Avatar phototurtle
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    There are many ‘organic’ farms in Chengdu, the most famous being Sunyuki http://www.sunyuki.com/. South of Chengdu there is Hygeia farm http://www.hygeiafarm.com/. Both do home delivery of produce, and you can also visit the farm and buy their produce on site. At two of Sunyuki’s sites, you can also have lunch and participate in activities (booking required). There are several others but I don’t know their names. If you want to farm your own plot you might be able to arrange that with Hygeia, I think I’ve heard about that.

    Kim are you sure any of the above is true? I would be very interested since those 2 options has fruits unlike yidiantian.com, but I think you are confusing the places.

    Based on what I can see hygeia and sunyiki are not farms, but simply distributors whereas the products are from who-knows-where, meaning not local and you can’t inspect the farm (since they are spread out over china).

    if Ive understood right the only local farms are yidiantian.com and anlonga farm, I think you were discribing anlonga farm as the place you can visit restaurant.

    #44855
    Avatar photoKim Duistermaat
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    I have been at both farms. The Hygeia farm is a real farm, which happens to be open to visitors. You can see how they grow their products, pick your own vegetables, and even adopt a goat, but it is not a place oriented at visitors. In the area of Hygeia, there are a lot of restaurants if you want to make a day trip out of it. The Sunyuki location I visited is one of several of their sites. Two Sunyuki sites are ready for receiving visitors, the one I visited (near Qingchen shan) and one closer to the highway to Dujiangyan. The two sites open to visitors have products growing (and some animals) but they do not focus on quantity but rather on the ‘outdoor’ experience: see how things grow, be outdoors, etc. They also have several large farm sites around Chengdu where they grow most of the produce, which may possibly also be visited but are not equipped for visitors (as in providing lunch and activities).Their website shows the general locations of those sites.

    On this map https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=znAMkI9YZP60.kiHB6ykXsvUo&msa=0 you can find their locations, and also the location of a place called Xinjin Idyllic organic farm, which I have not visited myself.

    On this page https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/chengdukidsoutdoors/files/Destinations/ you can find information about all three of them.

    Have fun exploring!

    #44923
    Avatar photodrjtrekker
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    Thank you Kim and Turtle so much. This was something I was looking for. Wifey and I have been checking out their sites and looking into this.

    Thanks again!

    #44926
    Avatar phototurtle
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    I looked into Hygeia farm but it seems to be prohibitively complicated to make an order, I’ve asked 2 chinese people and even them cannot figure it out.

    For example does the following fish only cost 6 RMB? if so then it’s written in a way that even Chinese people don’t understand

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    #44940
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    Yea Turtle, us too. We couldn’t find prices for that place, tried calling…heh.

    Move on to the next one. Though, I also have the same concern as u about these places, whether they are growing or distributing…and even if they grow, how trustworthy are there “certs”?  TIC, u know?

    Would hate to pay 2 or 3 times as much for the same quality. I’m a skeptic as u can tell. That’s one reason why I thought it might be fun/good to plant myself, or find a plot that we could plant.  Perhaps this way one could know the conditions of the soil and what is given to the plants, i.e. growth, pesticides, etc.

    #44953
    Avatar photoj.slemmer
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    Would there be interest in investing and setting up something like this?
    https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/noocity-growbed-turn-unused-urban-space-green

    To create our own growing area and be in control of it?

    What are possible concerns of growing food in the city?
    How does air pollution relate to the quality of the produced vegetables?

    Anyway I am very interested in setting something like this up.

    #44964
    Avatar photoKim Duistermaat
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    Hi, I asked your pollution question once when talking to a specialist on pollution and agriculture. He said it is a very complex matter. Pollution is in the air and water, but can also enter the plant depending on the type of pollution, the type of plant, the growth rates, etc. And then it depends which part of the plant you eat. There is no simple answer there I think. In any case, if you grow your own, you can manage the amount of pesticides and fertilizer.

    In Egypt I learned for the first time that ‘organic’ does not necessarily mean no pesticides, it just means that the norms are stricter. On the other hand, we visited the Hygeia farm once and looked at their veggies and bought some, and there were so many bugs (butterflies, ladybugs, caterpillars eating the corn, etc.) on and around the plants that I suspected not much pesticide is used there. But then again I don’t know if all the produce they sell comes from that same place. I guess the main thing is whether there is an independent agency that sets standards and checks companies before they can call themselves ‘organic’. I don’t know whether there is anything like that here.

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