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Natural agriculture |
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Agriculture is of life and death importance to human life. Properly conducted, agriculture
of quality leads to a life of quality and a good environment.
Agriculture at Khaokho Talaypu is
conducted according to the principle that nature is the teacher. We depend on the land to produce food,
cultivating it with respect and trying to learn about nature so that our agricultural practices harmonize
with nature.
We keep ever in mind the geographical realities of Thailand. This country is endowed with a great
diversity of life forms and gives abundant yields of vegetables, fruit, medicinal herbs, and other plants. This is
reason that agriculture is one of the nation's strengths and cannot be neglected. Thailand is a rice basket of
the world. Khaokho Talaypu therefore does not plant a lot of any one kind of plant; instead, we grow a wide
variety of plants.
Our agriculture must be sustainable and enable us to be self-reliant.
Our practice of agriculture with nature as our teacher is based on five "nos" and three "musts:"
The Five Nos
No chemicals used in any stage of production
No monocropping
No burning or exposure of the soil
No plant or animal may be regarded as an enemy
No plowing or turning of the soil is our goal
Three Musts
Variety must be as close as possible to that of nature
The soil must be covered
Odoriferous plants must be intercropped |
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Herb and Native Vegetable Garden
The Talaypu Herb and Native Vegetable Garden is an important source of
food and medicine and also a botanical garden in which native plants are
preserved for study by both the Khaokho Talaypu folk and others who are
interested.
Broad wet rice fields and upland rice fields at the base of the hills
The wet rice fields, in which rice is grown naturally, serve as a source of
food, as a range for raising buffaloes and ducks, and as a way of preserving
and carrying on the way of life of the traditional Thai rice farmer, which
nowadays is becoming harder and harder to find. Likewise, the upland rice
fields display the traditional wisdom of the upland Thai farmer, whose
labors, together with the rainfall, cloaks hill slopes with the verdant
green of rice and a host of other edible plants so as to be the rural
equivalent of the city dweller's supermarket.
Rice Mill
This is a small-scale rice mill producing fresh nutritious brown rice in
quantities sufficient to fill the rice pot of the Khaokho Talaypu kitchen
and to provide a delectable gift guests can purchase to take home to delight
family and friends.
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