Well, construction of the new bird nest farm will complete within next 2 months. The property should further be develop for wider use. Where does it lead to next? I have been thinking about it for a while now.
A residence on-site seem appropriate. With some consciousnesses of human impact towards the environment - on climate change, carbon foot print of urban lifestyle etc. I have embraced the concept of eco-living for a while. This seem a worthwhile pursuit next.
Having witnessed how the dozen workers lived off the land, I was inspired to do the same. The land is very fertile with abundance of water around. Surely it will be self sufficient with produce even for a small community.
To begin with, the idea is to go organic. There will be vegies patch just as the workers did, a herbs garden and a fruit orchard with various tropical fruits. This is Thailand! Where on earth could be a better place than this? There will be a compost area to generate organic fertilizer too. These pics surely looks enticing, especially when produces by oneself - someday!
The deep pond will be be re-stock with more fish species. It has been self sufficient with food at present and will be supplemented with soy bean residues, available from a friend who made soy drinks daily.
As an electrical engineer, I am hook on renewable energy such as wind and solar energy projects. So achieving energy self sufficiency is another endeavor. Though initial capital outlay is high, I intend to embark on a small scale as experimental test beds. Thailand has a program to buy electricity from very small producers (known as VSSP scheme), it will be very interesting indeed if China's Suntech Power's ambitious goal of producing solar panels at grid-parity cost by 2011!
This is a rough sketch of the path to take and things to come - another journey of learning and experimenting ahead.
Frankly I did not anticipate so much coming together so nicely at the beginning, it simply develop and evolved along the way.
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