cazi taiwan trek

More advanced level of peeling pineapples?! They must be incredibly fast and unafraid of getting pricked.

Prickly. Prickly and prickly. From far away, the field looks like a pile of weed, but it’s actually a very organized field of weeds with hidden pineapples here and there.

The pineapple farm, aRong Nature Farm, utilizes the philosophy of "nature farming", originated by Mokichi Okada

My Vietnamese friend only knows Taiwan only through 1) drama and 2) pineapple cake (鳳梨酥). Pineapple cake seems to be one of Taiwanese's most touristic food souvenir, driving my choice of the pineapple. A pineapple farmer from Taidong claims "the more you understand the way agriculture works, the more subordinate and humble you feel toward nature, because everything produced by nature is a gift and a miracle". How do they plant, grow, nurture, protect and harvest the fruit? How can one get accustomed to the scars that they get when handling such prickly fruit? These are the questions that I inquire.