Yilan Toucheng Farm's Circular Magic: Sustainability is Visible and Tangible
Toucheng Farm in Yilan, with 47 years of history, has extended its operational focus beyond its premises to the broader mountain and sea environment, promoting conservation and resource circulation like magic. It aims to make sustainability visible and tangible, collaborating with enterprises like ASE Group for endangered species restoration and environmental education.
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(Central News Agency reporter Wang Shu-fen, Taipei, April 24) Yilan Toucheng Farm has been in operation for 47 years, initially emphasizing natural ecological tourism. In recent years, it has extended its operational focus to the broader mountain and sea environment, where conservation and resource circulation seem magical, making sustainability both visible and tangible.
Following its participation in Toucheng Farm's afforestation last year, ASE Group this year again joined the habitat restoration for the endangered species "Hemerocallis fulva" at Toucheng Farm. A few days ago, Chen Hsin-ting, Deputy Director of the ASE Environmental Protection and Sustainability Foundation, along with Cho Chih-hung, Chairman of Toucheng Farm, and Hsiao Chung-jen, Director of the Yilan Branch of the Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency, Ministry of Agriculture, planted the "Hemerocallis fulva," once common along rice paddy ridges but now rapidly disappearing, by a rice paddy field.
This is one of Toucheng Farm's initiatives to promote conservation and environmental sustainability. In recent years, Toucheng Farm has no longer been merely a tourist attraction but has gradually extended its operational focus from within its premises to the broader mountain and sea environment. It emphasizes the "Forest-River-Sea" concept, connecting farm resources with corporate resources to promote forest restoration, port actions, table interpretation, and environmental education.
Lin Hong-da, manager of Toucheng Farm, told the media that Toucheng Farm, covering 120 hectares, has always emphasized returning to nature. With corporate support, the farm's energy has grown, becoming an important part of the national ecological network, with resource circulation like magic, making sustainability both visible and tangible.
Taking ecological afforestation as an example, in addition to arranging tourist participation, the understory plants in the forest are food for many animals and can also become wild vegetables on the farm's dining table. This reminds humans that to use the forest, they must first care for the animals in it with love.
Lin Hong-da said that Toucheng Farm obtained sustainable tourism certification in 2019 and continues to promote circular agriculture. For example, it cooperates with mushroom farmers to restore fireflies using discarded mushroom bags, attracting more ecotourism enthusiasts and driving local tourism development. It also sets up worm bins, where the farm's kitchen waste provides organic microbial soil resources for the farm.
Toucheng Farm originally had many creatures. While promoting sustainability, infrared monitoring clearly observed the activities of various shallow mountain animals such as barking deer, wild boars, macaques, crab-eating mongooses, pangolins, and Taiwan blue magpies.
Toucheng Farm is a certified environmental education venue, with lively and interesting course designs. For example, when explaining the relationship between animals and forests, it designed three special dining tables.
The bird-themed dining table uses fruit ingredients to make snacks, depicting birds treating large trees as playgrounds and eating fruits.
The bee-themed dining table uses flower-shaped vessels to hold honey-related foods. Participants transform into bees to forage, also symbolizing bees pollinating plants and humans enjoying the sweet fruits after pollination.
The wild boar-themed dining table uses brown sugar powder to imitate fertile soil, burying root vegetables favored by wild boars. Participants taste them as if wild boars are digging for root vegetables under the soil.
Toucheng Farm not only uses seafood from the nearby Daxi Fishing Port on its dining tables but also integrates it into tours. It actively supports local captain Huang Shih-yang's marine waste governance at Daxi Fishing Port and encourages the public to use Eco boxes for purchasing seafood instead of styrofoam, reducing environmental harm.
Huang Shih-yang believes that marine waste should not be thrown back into the sea. More than six years ago, he began bringing it ashore along with the catch and has promoted the establishment of a recycling park nearby. Now, marine waste can be hot-pressed into boards.
Lin Hong-da said that from forest restoration and habitat connection to environmental education and local industry support, corporate resources are gradually intertwined with local contexts, forming a practical path from reducing ecological impact at the source to strengthening overall environmental resilience. As these actions continue to accumulate, companies, while pursuing growth, also establish longer-term and stable relationships with the environment and society. (Editor: Guan Chung-wei) 1150424
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(Central News Agency reporter Wang Shu-fen, Taipei, April 24) Yilan Toucheng Farm has been in operation for 47 years, initially emphasizing natural ecological tourism. In recent years, it has extended its operational focus to the broader mountain and sea environment, where conservation and resource circulation seem magical, making sustainability both visible and tangible.
Following its participation in Toucheng Farm's afforestation last year, ASE Group this year again joined the habitat restoration for the endangered species "Hemerocallis fulva" at Toucheng Farm. A few days ago, Chen Hsin-ting, Deputy Director of the ASE Environmental Protection and Sustainability Foundation, along with Cho Chih-hung, Chairman of Toucheng Farm, and Hsiao Chung-jen, Director of the Yilan Branch of the Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency, Ministry of Agriculture, planted the "Hemerocallis fulva," once common along rice paddy ridges but now rapidly disappearing, by a rice paddy field.
This is one of Toucheng Farm's initiatives to promote conservation and environmental sustainability. In recent years, Toucheng Farm has no longer been merely a tourist attraction but has gradually extended its operational focus from within its premises to the broader mountain and sea environment. It emphasizes the "Forest-River-Sea" concept, connecting farm resources with corporate resources to promote forest restoration, port actions, table interpretation, and environmental education.
Lin Hong-da, manager of Toucheng Farm, told the media that Toucheng Farm, covering 120 hectares, has always emphasized returning to nature. With corporate support, the farm's energy has grown, becoming an important part of the national ecological network, with resource circulation like magic, making sustainability both visible and tangible.
Taking ecological afforestation as an example, in addition to arranging tourist participation, the understory plants in the forest are food for many animals and can also become wild vegetables on the farm's dining table. This reminds humans that to use the forest, they must first care for the animals in it with love.
Lin Hong-da said that Toucheng Farm obtained sustainable tourism certification in 2019 and continues to promote circular agriculture. For example, it cooperates with mushroom farmers to restore fireflies using discarded mushroom bags, attracting more ecotourism enthusiasts and driving local tourism development. It also sets up worm bins, where the farm's kitchen waste provides organic microbial soil resources for the farm.
Toucheng Farm originally had many creatures. While promoting sustainability, infrared monitoring clearly observed the activities of various shallow mountain animals such as barking deer, wild boars, macaques, crab-eating mongooses, pangolins, and Taiwan blue magpies.
Toucheng Farm is a certified environmental education venue, with lively and interesting course designs. For example, when explaining the relationship between animals and forests, it designed three special dining tables.
The bird-themed dining table uses fruit ingredients to make snacks, depicting birds treating large trees as playgrounds and eating fruits.
The bee-themed dining table uses flower-shaped vessels to hold honey-related foods. Participants transform into bees to forage, also symbolizing bees pollinating plants and humans enjoying the sweet fruits after pollination.
The wild boar-themed dining table uses brown sugar powder to imitate fertile soil, burying root vegetables favored by wild boars. Participants taste them as if wild boars are digging for root vegetables under the soil.
Toucheng Farm not only uses seafood from the nearby Daxi Fishing Port on its dining tables but also integrates it into tours. It actively supports local captain Huang Shih-yang's marine waste governance at Daxi Fishing Port and encourages the public to use Eco boxes for purchasing seafood instead of styrofoam, reducing environmental harm.
Huang Shih-yang believes that marine waste should not be thrown back into the sea. More than six years ago, he began bringing it ashore along with the catch and has promoted the establishment of a recycling park nearby. Now, marine waste can be hot-pressed into boards.
Lin Hong-da said that from forest restoration and habitat connection to environmental education and local industry support, corporate resources are gradually intertwined with local contexts, forming a practical path from reducing ecological impact at the source to strengthening overall environmental resilience. As these actions continue to accumulate, companies, while pursuing growth, also establish longer-term and stable relationships with the environment and society. (Editor: Guan Chung-wei) 1150424
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