Living GREEN  

Toucheng Leisure Farm protects human´s biggest treasure- our environment and shows the way of ecological living.

Toucheng Leisure Farm inspires people who are keen for environmentally friendly life but also educates all other visitors in friendly behaviour to our environment.

Toucheng Leisure Farm´s mud house

In our farm you can see, touch and try life in a completely ecological mud house and feel all the diferences from houses or flats in big cities. Our purpose is to give our visitors insight into history and mainly to discover the wisdom and smartness of ancient people from whose we can learn the most in being environmentally friendly nowadays! Toucheng Leisure Farm gives our visitors new and usefull ideas by which they can make their life better and more Eco!  

Building and living in mud houses brings people and also our environment many positives.

·   > No chemicals or artificial materials are used during building process, just pure natural materials as stones, loam, water, grass, wood, bamboo

·   > Mud house has thick walls which allow to hold pleasant temperature inside the house in summer as well as in winter, there is no need of air-conditioning or heater, it saves a lot of energy and produces no pollution, thick walls also prevent the house against wind

·   > Roof is made of dried grass, to make the roof there are used many layers of precisely tied grass, this kind of roof is waterproof but on the other side can permeate cooking fumes out of the house

To build high quality mud house we have to follow some rules. First is to make a proper stone base (about 50cm high) to prevent collapse and also wet, because the lowest layer is the most wet-prone. 

Can you see the stone base?

Afterwards it is possible to start building walls. We have to be patient and continue slowly step by step, part by part. Meterials used in building walls are mud, water, hey and bamboo. Those materials are widely accessible and cost nearly nothing. All must be well trampled down and construction workers always controll the condition of the wall, they moisturize it if it is necessary. Because the wall would also collapse, if the mud is too dry. To build higher layer they use bamboos what is very environmentally friendly and smart. Builders must be patient, careful and must give the wall time to settle down.

 Builder tramples down mud with hey

 Going step by step...

...part by part

Later they roof the house. Only wood, bamboo and grass are used. To tie bamboos one to another we use peeled parts of a special plant from the jungle (rattan), which has perfect characteristics. It is long, strong and long-life.

Preparing bamboo base

 It is important to fix tied dried grass very well

 There are hundreds of layers one next to another

There exist a lot of important details to build the mud house successfully. If you are interested, come to Toucheng Leisure Farm and learn more! Enjoy staying in a super green house!

Kitchen's wall and firewoods.

bed inside the hut.

kitchen walls outside view.

kitchen's inside view.