Organic Farm

One part of my current life is farming.  We have been experiment with organic farming in Chaiyaphum province in the north eastern part of Thailand known as Isan.

Since we have a pretty large property, the property has been divided into several sections.  The upper part close to our home is mainly where we grow edible plants.  Just below our home is a mixture of edible plant and flowering trees.  The lowest part by the creek is for re-growing forrest.

The organic farm is currently producing figs (black mission, brown turkey, celeste, etc.),  cocos, Japanese green onions, strawberries (which was thought to be impossible to grow in this region).

Photos are by our collegue – Buttriya Ruamthamrak.

Proef

I had an opportunity to host Marije Vogelzang of Proef during the Creativities Unfold 2008.  The symposium was organized by TCDC.

Even though Marije was trained as an industrial designer, she is not designing or producing another piece of “crappy furniture” into the world like most designers.  Instead, she uses food as her medium.

Unlike the chefs like Ferran Andrea or Heston Blumenthal, she does not goes too deeply into the science of gastronomy.  What I particularly like about her work is that she is able to alter human perception of food by designing their eating experience.

Image from this blog.