Farm book: land is healing medicine

"Land reclamation in the yard to grow vegetables, fertilization, catch the worm harvests used to treat 35 friends......" A lot of people longing for rural life, in the Taiwan writer Cai Zhu's works, appears fresh and interesting. Author moved to the outlying islands of Hong Kong's new, outside in the open space opens up wasteland to grow vegetables. In solar terms order, wrote to exploit and the pain and the joy of harvesting. In her works, vegetables and fruits have a spiritual: "basella and freezing Eggplant silly, cave-like setting is not long, gourd turned pale black, chili peppers skinny like jackals. Worms, long fine, but Tiger, take advantage of gaps breed which heavily hit. ”

This passionate celebration of the vitality of the land and records authors essays to communicate with land the farm book recently published by the century scene. Writers, cooks, farmers: Cai Zhu

Taiwan writer Cai Zhu, who worked in media. Love plants and food are always natural and social observer. 1996 moved to Hong Kong, obsessed with Hong Kong and Guangdong, and walk in the town folk, like hiking, love, shopping, often old fire soup, and tilling garden vegetables at home, and understand the relationship between food and climate. Summer of 2015 bid farewell to Hong Kong and move back to settle in Taipei. Before the farm book, Cai Zhu has had snow in the Southern Red Book of the gluttony of the braised in fragrant plantain, the Cook, the Taipei flower published essays such as ventriloquism, she won the China Times, reading a good book award, the United Daily News Reader, Wu Luqin essay Award and many Taiwan important literary awards in the literary world.

It held against years of latest uphold her consistent writing style, her forever and that others more lively and interesting. In Zhang ailing's novels for the introduction, inquiry "sand flies" origin of times books, find mango originated from India evidence free reading of the Taiping dynasty gourd cultural history; search through the notes and the interest in the book-"the growing superstition is the oldest of sympathetic magic." Text in living color, and interesting to read. And different life experiences, show the sophistication of years after precipitation.

Farming is a form of healing, great turning point in Menander

Moved zhiqian, Zanzibar has been in balcony vegetables, moved zhihou finally has place exhibition fist, species has several months zhihou only found, original yard in of soil are is building waste, so dish are long bad, others advised she pulled a car organic soil came fill Shang, she think after several months of elbow, has with that block thin to has has feelings, determined good "raised soil": "family said wood bran good, I to with decoration foreman sets friendship, to to several bags planing sawdust, burn gray mixed stirred in soil in. They say shrimp make up, I'm going to buy a few pounds to peel, dried and crushed shell, buried in vegetable fields. Meters of water washing to stay, of course, the water washing fish seafood product, water and the Park. "All these paid off with pay, that piece of thin finally fattened. She said: I want to slowly raise the soil, the land will also address. Just the way it slowly over the season to receive the message, I had to learn.

A routine physical examination, she found she had cancer, in the face of disease, she tried to make herself accepted: "farming with nature, illness or, I just care treatment, others were handed in, quietly watching how comfortable relaxing. "Articles written in this period, writing remains lively and funny, sweeping away the haze. After surgery, she just "little pieces of oil", Dagan, gearing in the field again next year. In the interview, she considers writing homework to her, as a tangle of Libra, she carefully every writing; the land is healed, let her face great turning point in your life.

Land is healing medicine, it is her first memories of childhood. In Taiwan the mountains Cai Zhu, have liked climbing trees to steal fruit, "guava" an article full of childhood memories, the casts. After you read her book, remembers familiar plants, pleasantly surprised to find they can think they look, so know their name and origin. Not only wrote to the land, and life experience, Hong Kong street life

The farm book not entirely associated with farming, is the author in fact assembled into two columns. In addition to write farm "silly woman Netherlands beans" article, and "warm red Mary" article, written in Italy, and Japan, their knowledge, their farm houses in sourcing local ingredients in cooking, integration into the local life. "The maintenance record of the race course", and wrote the fate of life: marriage, theft, illness. "Ding Ding what" articles, writing landscape and urban life in Hong Kong. "Ginseng and dried seafood, old street, Sheung like TI and Lukang, complete block, Fu Tai Estate, the vicissitudes implicit in gorgeous, and Meng Hua Lu in the air. "" Time fugitives "wrote one of the most important turning points in life, supplement is stopped, since this study in the UK, the self-proclaimed" elegant ", wandering around the market, write" porridge "and" Guihua "homemade food, such as micro-cultural history.

Book jump flowing text, anecdotes abound, showing a mix of flavors. In her works, rural life and old personnel, integrated urban life, leave it to the reader to carefully appreciate. After following this book of the farm, century Wen Jing Cai Zhu's Red stew cooks will be introduced this year.

The farm book excerpt

Small bites

White tassels sit in Repulse Bay and Fan Liuyuan, tassel commotion and mosquitoes, Yanagihara said "no mosquitoes, is a small insect called sand fly bite, is a little red dot, like a warm spot. "They snapped each other, laughing. Well Eileen Chang, Moon vine flowers is nothing, tired of mosquitoes can also be charming and sexy, this brilliant idea, is a warm spot of red on the surface, beneath the itching, the violence of body skin, meat sputtered, never really been overwhelmed with emotion. Otherwise, tassels will "suddenly be offended", stood up and left, and evils in their hearts.

Sand flies, coming from the sandfly literal translation, refers to the blood-sucking insects, Repulse Bay the species should be called the Midge, Chinese name the midges, common name little bites, Cantonese for mosquito-HIV/AIDS, such as fine dust, shadow-silent, so English is also called no-see-EM. Only when you see, lies without a trace, more like mind Shu, hundred thousand turn back.

Although this small bite, but eat, snapping people quickly yin is malicious, instant red Stigmata, itch 10 times than the mosquitoes, and bones can't stop scratching skin flexible, jump out crazy. But that moment, Yanagihara and tassel love hungry heart, beat the play, oblivious to the theory that, Sun to lose your head, but as soon as they heard the truth nature.

Unfortunately, the tassels soon awake, finish scraping, neat work out suffers a loss, immediately desires all eliminating, and turned to leave. I suspect this because she has just come from Shanghai, have not seen the Lingnan mosquito-Zi much, itch free, and singular HIV such as, more catch more itching, itching to catch, finally recaptured tassel a reality, the opportunity to slip away, so grilled ears Tickle cheek and made a fool of.

Small bite of blood, is telekinesis, spreading media grok (Hey, we should say "bug"), but it's a Commission too hard, intermediary exploitation nuisances, but also bungled a bad thing. Please excuse my impertinent woman, but by the worm, killed I couldn't romance, not long not flirting, neglect of this; it was badly bitten, full of anger and kudachoushen.

I am natural mosquito, also lived in villages and mountain suburb of plants, insects, fish, and scenery carefree beauty, gnats, and Zan skinned thighs, was scurrying, black and blue. GNATS are small bite, more difficult to resist than the mosquito, which every wet breeding, between spring and summer rains, especially sharp high-level official standing defended, I stood waiting at the crossing, five or six strokes in two minutes, talk to people at the post office two sentences, ten bites, such as fire, and walking and scratching, astonishing.

Blood-sucking even, hateful this tricky to eat, bite meat, choose eccentric parts, such as the elbows, knuckles, ankles, ear, eyebrow bones and even on the eyelids, grilled catch no more itch does not want. Even mosquito spraying water repellent to put, you always find it in the pure land, snatched the loophole and eat special food. Long sleeve long pants, unless it is a cotton-padded jacket and duck down, otherwise it can suit the snapping people, screens holes even to come and go freely, overall fit, eating enough.

Small bites well lit in broad daylight, shooting, gardening vegetables are more spared. I tired to dig in the garden while the weather is refreshing, not fitted with improvised play, dig a bow will wipe off sweat, piao to calf spotted with mud stars, closer look, Oh, little bit dense like black sesame, Zhang photographed the explosion. Nothing at night, counting in the light, 52 of his left leg, right leg 23, sporadic is not going to repeat, but everywhere.

Itchy for a week, he's a warm spot, I was red bean ice and red beans to sugar snap peas, and Hokkaido red bean, and finally the black powder round. Pieces, I'd worry about anemia, and whether infectious encephalitis or something? No wonder I am more and more stupid.

Tassel itch itch, Zhang didn't write. Life is pain, then, but only itching, squirming crawling with fleas, biting the snapping God, but always fail to tickle, this is embarrassing. Silly aunt Netherlands beans

Land sown, the day wandering near the field, look complacent. Vegetable seeds soon began sprouting, chrysanthemum powder blue, JI-amaranth red, clear green fennel, coriander oil Tsui, cheek fat legs with baby fat. There are yellow "America" cabbage, rapeseed from Taiwan brings Hong Kong short feet thick stems of Chinese cabbage taste hard and brittle than Taiwan Chinese cabbage soft greasy luster. Lettuce has been raised, planted cuttings and gynura basella, roots sprout is my favorite cuisine, markets do not always have, after their own pick and not outside. Netherlands peas is winter cuisine, kind of late, but grows very fast, has been out of the tiny tendrils, timidly climbed the railing. Tomato, bottle gourd and eggplant seedlings, furry new leaves emerge, according to one tutor, groundnut rush isn't under leaves.

Also has papaya and Cosmos, first with seedbed broadcast seed Yu bud, again moved to garden colonization, papaya planted in Lei side, and Carambola tree for with; Cosmos species in dish Geng side, and water spinach dish Chrysanthemum for o, future Red Green-and-, zhuzi mutual reflected, on like Furano and Bali of dish field, picked dish way pinch spent, beauty and and can meal, alacrity Ah.

More want more music, I almost want to turn lawns into rice fields, home grown organic rice, vegetables and sweet fragrance, food self-sufficiency, can also enjoy green paddy Wong Shui, would it not be even better? Excitedly told him, he smiled saying, well, put fish in the paddy field, raising a few chickens and ducks. I will not answer.

Want to get Halo taotao, reality soon to be revealed. Insects spring seeding bud, before and after the Ching Ming rain should begin harvesting, Venti lettuce have "heart", and crude fat of lettuce, how I like a dish stems thicker than chopsticks; Netherlands bean leaves blossom branches but thin as a toothpick. Chrysanthemum and amaranth worse, Bud for months, sluggish small, faded baby fat into face weather-beaten old man sperm.

"Well, too close, to open a ... ” "The mud is too thin, the more fat! ” "Bed so high, water does not drain? Silly woman! ” Farmers are this good, talking like a cabbage, crisp until the end without twisting.

I get to start first aid, padded long bed, cruel drawing shoots thin out, more cast fertilizer. Soybean meal has long bottom, rice's most nourishing water and coffee grounds, and of course water buried under, trickle-down dictate; the broken branches and fallen leaves were not spared, incinerate, but fertile land well. Hate only distant water cannot put out a nearby fire, I am made of kitchen waste composting, and brewing for several months.

Really pick up and the plants gradually plump tomato flower, Netherlands results beans, coriander also pulled out, the aroma, left the nostrils, just won't wash off. Half a month later, chrysanthemum can adopt to Cook, after a few days, cabbage was finally enough to fry a, under I want to spice, with oil, salt, quick fire fried, vegetable rich popped in a mellow, is obviously extremely plain things, fresh Yu sheng meat.

But it's too late and too little, saving ever played two or three times, in fine form, bioactives has mature flowers, cabbage is soaked by heavy rain, Netherlands beans suffered insect kisses, lace veil was eating into the foliage, and I receive routed pods, each stamp, cooked soup says, into his mouth, oblivious.

In short, first quarter report card hair down, Azolla, several section zero. Amaranth die long, seedlings two months; rape has just sprouted overnight silkworms eat light. Alas, even the food is kind of wrong, was supposed to be kind of anise (fennel), dumplings, and long before it found Dill (Dill), but the bottomline, and grilled salmon, boiled Viet Nam sour soup, fresh and refreshing taste, but there are surprises.

Well, I still have water spinach basella tomato, cucumber papaya gourd, for another showdown in the summer. Rotten afraid of? This is lifelong learning, forever and could not graduate. Fat Snyder

Four o'clock in the afternoon and watch the Sun soft, to work in the garden, the soil, mix fertilizer, leaf cutting sweet potatoes. Heat wave burning, sweat like rain, dodging not to baptise into the eye, a hot stabbing pain. Surprisingly, sweat and tears are salty, with tears in his eyes sore, sweat feel hot?

Get the sky dark cyan, Venus in the West, and wants to call it, that Venus were rolled round to the front, I like a kind of onion, light-headed, dizzy, after the shower water ice, still flushed, Halo paste like lard and Inner Mongolia. Oh dear, was suffering from heat exhaustion.

A hot day, not foolhardy, and fallow, hiding in reading in the shade of the House and garden in a wild state. Poor pumpkins and cucumbers, because I have no where scaffolding is put up, crawling around on the ground, around the vine, yellow flowers open at the end of food, and the corners, injustice and sloppy. This was actually, have been picked a few cucumbers, strangely shaped, gourd-shaped, spiral-shaped, l-shaped crash trends, there are v-shaped rebound, not a straight.

Look it up in the book, it's the same old problem, a nutrient sufficient. Alas, my supplements increased mast operation, when will succeed? Kinds of lettuce before non-heart, kind of beetroot favus on the head, amaranth grow Chrysanthemum not fat, because soil Champaign, malnutrition. The rocks on the island enters, gravelly soil with less meat thin, and buried in the garden brick wastes, picked not clear, the texture is more barren. Gardener Alor to cutting the grass, and saw my field, they grin, I know he looked flat.

Farmers and neighbors told me, simply take the old shovel out, buy another fertile black mud covered, but I just don't want to. Fear of annoying, scoop up huge, I do not know how deep to dig another refuses, farmers leased land on the island to grow vegetables without soil, so kind of luxuriant green, people, how could I not?

"Xin", started a long period of revolutionary land reform. Start a watched pot never boils, and bought a variety of organic fertilizer, big sub, Ruddy vegetable not recovered, but bad thing a couple of times, burned leaves and tomatoes. Under the fertilizers such as tonic, depends on the physical reality, the bony, empty without make up, or is going to slow down, with gentle ganping home repair, small meals, good aftercare.

I cover two large barrels do composting, thrown into the dish stems Peel tea every day, sealing fastening and wait for it to break down. The "fat" bad bad dry, open steam smoked and tangy, but getting better, turn color after a few months, and profound wine, scents, too, light. There is compost, raked leaves and weeds, under layers of heap in the corner of the sky, expect to go through, see bottom of soft, white mycelium grows, some water mixed with little soil, compacted and then cover. I this is a mess, neither the cover seal, regardless of carbon-nitrogen ratio, what is what, so ripe rot slowly and scum is thick, but still usable.

And I raise around, to find good organic material, what wants to extract nutrients. They say sawdust, and I went to decorate the foreman terms, several bags of planed wood, burned ash mixed with stirring in the Earth. They say shrimp make up, I'm going to buy a few pounds to peel, dried and crushed shell, buried in vegetable fields. Meters of water washing to stay, of course, the water washing fish seafood product, water and the Park.