WE ARE ALL HEALTHY 

Living in pure nature, breathing fresh air, possibilities to stay in greenness, open space, eating self produced food and ingredients make people, animals and also plants healthy!

In Toucheng Leisure Farm we plant many kinds of herbs. In our herb garden you can find Perilla, Houttuynia cordata, RoseMary, Mint, Australian Fern Tree, Lemon Marigold, Sweet Basil or Lemongrass!  We don´t use any pesticides! All those herbs are accostumed to farm´s conditions and climate and are able to grow well without human´s intervention. We only put compost around herbs from time to time, which is made out from our water buffalo´s dung and fruit or vegetable peels. Each herb has its specific smell with grassy traces. That grassy traces are very important, they don´t attract insect and bugs so that herbs are not attacked. We don´t plant sweet vegetable, as cherry tomatoes or broccoli, because it would attract insect that could harm vegetable and could also increase the possibility of spreading plant diseases by new insect. Then we would be pushed to use chemical sprays what we are completely against! We better prefere to have healthy, clean and rich herbs! But it doesn´t mean that we don´t plant vegetable at all. J Continue reading.

We use herbs for preparing nourishing teas, which can all customers drink in front of our main building during their whole stay. Its taste is very nice and distinctive by itself, there is no need to add some ingredients (as sugar, honey, lemon, etc.).  Herbs are very often used in our kitchen and give nice taste to prepared meals! J

 Nourishing herb tea

 Our herb garden

Our herb garden

Some herbs have healing effects! It is of course possible to use them in case of health problems to cure us in a natural way! J

 White radish, carrot, sweet potatoes are representatives of sweet vegetable, but they grow under the ground, so there is no need to be affraid of bugs. It is same with pumpkins, loofah or melon, because these have thick peel. Bitter gourd or native vegetables (it is not possible to buy them in a supermarket, they grow localy and are eaten by local people) don´t attract insect because insect simply don´t like their taste. We carefully choose what we cultivate in our farm to protect all plants!

In other parts of our farm we also cultivate fruit! J Our visitors can taste a taste of real naturally produced passion fruits, kumquats, tangerines, pomelos, wax apples, bananas or papaya! The difference in taste is obvious! And we are happy that we can offer our customers such an experience!

As we were talking about healthy animals in the beginning of this article, we have to explain, why we said it. In our farm live fish, ducks, gooses, chickens, goats, pigs, water buffalos, turkeys and others! We feed them with farm´s grass or different fruits and we also give our pigs the rest which is left after our visitor´s breakfast/lunch/dinner. Because we are environmentally friendly! J We also buy cabbages to feed our animals because they are many and we are not able to produce sufficient amount for them.  But…Toucheng Leisure Farm peels quite a lot of layers of each cabbage before serving it to our animals to remove pieces which were possibly attacked by chemical spreys!

Our animals are due to their nutritious food healthy and happy. For example, our chickens are not fat (they get no hormon injections as in many battery farming), they are skiny and after some months :P tasty, because they live in greeness and open space! J