I retired in 1996 after spending almost
another ten years at USIS library in Chiang Mai. I now have
my own farm in the highlands living among nature and wilderness.
This helpfully made me keep close to the nature, tree, water, birds and
fresh air.
At Pangfan, I developed the imperata grass land into the nature
farm growing fruit crops, peach, apricot, pear and lychee at
the elevation of 700 meters above means sea level. Only green manure and
compost were applied to the fruit trees.
The young native trees grown up naturally during the previous eight
years. They grew up and became shade trees in our farm and most of
them are forest
trees around the farm. We love to watch
the birds flying around our farm.
We enjoyed seeing our lychee, japanese apricot and pear at their
blooming and fruiting times. We enjoy life at our farm !
| We enjoyed seeing our pears, lychee, japanese apricot and
native sizygium at their blooming and fruiting times. We enjoy life
at our farm !
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My wife, Sawat Chantalay enjoys teaching the 11th grade students
on economics and geography at the Yupparaj Wittayalai School in Chiang
Mai. She is the supervisor of the Environmental Conservation Club.
She is seriously concerned on the trash and garbage in the school yard.
So she is working hard on the recycle program. The 4 Rs (reduce,
reuse, repair, recycle) program is conducted at Yupparaj School. You may
visit her work at this web site, Yupparaj
High School in Chiang Mai.
She conducts the youth training camp on environmental conservation.
So, she is the director of the Young
Environmentalist Camp
at our farm.
We conduct Young
Environmentalist Training Camp at our farm about 6 camps a year
beginning from October to March. We have successfully trained 26
camps, 40 students each workshop during the past four years.
We associated with other non government organizations in municipality
area of Chiang Mai too.
I am a member of the Wildlife Fund Thailand (WFT) and voluntary created
a home page for this organization. My wife and I are members of Chiang
Mai Bird Group, Walk for a Better Environment. We are aware of garbage
crisis in town and nature conservation over the country.
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