2024

Garden City church
Looking west
our micro-community
Road 1, Section 3
Looking from the west
Garden City entrance to our southwest

2018

Quchi 屈尺
mouse released


ZhiTan Water Treatment Plant 直潭淨水廠
Quchi 屈尺
Zhitan 直潭
Zhitan 直潭
Zhitan 直潭
貓巡坑福德宮 Cat Patrol Temple
roof detail
area tourist orientation
貓巡坑福德宮 Cat Patrol Temple

2017

back to Garden City
Xindian river 新店溪 from 思源橋 Siyuan bridge on Zhitan Road 直潭路
Wantan 灣潭
Wantan terminus of Xiaocukeng ferry wharf 小粗坑渡口遺址 灣潭端
our photo for real estate ad
Cherry blossom snappers
cadastral plots
key features
from above

from above

hoop house above


path on the roof


whacked betelnut grove



































lower terrace
pond



drainage into the stream

2016

Checking out the garden, doing some harvesting

A small green bean, similar to a mung bean, has grown well in the garden.
Philip carrying compost bin

Still dozens of a hardy chili pepper 糯米辣椒 picked green for pickling and red sauce and fire
Passionfruit marigold blooming
Late morning in the garden on a beautiful early winter day
With honey, lemon syrup
Coconut pankes, a la J. Murray
James prepares breakfast of coconut pankes for us.


coffee
New bunch of long, purple aubergine
Turmeric flower gorgeousness
Pumpkin yielded well this year
More poster photos
Picture for James' and Erika's farm cafe enterprise

Nice shot and a pumpkin
Lapping up the attention
With their boy Tane
New farmers
More poster pics
okra
Tear drop yellow eggplant in flower
okra
Gigantic grasshoppers on the Perilla
okra
Turmeric flower on the decline
Small eggplant
Sweet basil crop in the center
Red amaranth
Red edible amaranth grown for its leaves as a vegetable
A nice shot of the Plot
The Plot - Left side
LeafHopper over James and Erika's plot

Garden City services
Lunch finally
Higher and higher
Working with wet cardboard to start the sheet mulch process


the 849 from Wulai approaches
Strawberries, planted high, and letucces made it through the cold rains.
Amazing the lettuces and broccoli survived the long, cold rains
The nasturtium have survived with our mini-raised bed strategy
Mulching again in earnest while we have some sun
A rare sunny day and lots to catch up on in the garden
Mulching begins again with rice straw from the tatami
Sudden mushrooming following the long rain
Patricia and Kathrin join in the stair project
Building material for the stairs.
Philip starts work on the stairs in the garden
Dan took apart a tatami so that the straw could be used in the garden.

2015

A wild fruit in the passion fruit family

Tane
unloading
neighbor plot



Garden City and Zhitan
Zhitan water treatment
the road is closed at night
Compost system at the community garden
Standing tall in the middle part of the garden.
Productive bajiao at the community garden
Community garden after the big typhoon
Carambola flowers
Water system repair
water collector reassembled
garden water collector cleaned

2014

flight over water treament plant

White Wagtail 白鶺鴒 (bái jílíng) Motacilla alba



dry compost in heavy rain

ripe tomatoes
garden river
high water
flowers and fruits

2013

Comfrey bells
Firespike 紅樓花 Odontonema strictum (Nees) Kuntze
orchid tree 羊踢 leaf
lemon grass with eggplant remains
Canna 美人蕉
vetiver 培地茅/香根草 Chrysopogon zizanioides
baby papaya fruit
farmers friend 咸豐草 Bidens pilosa flower
wet and sad habaneros
lemon tree guild
Our first pineapple
small snake in the garden

Patricia, Kathrin and Tammy
Jason completing the back wall of the new compost bins





Sowthistle tasselflower紫背草 Emilia sonchifolia (L.) DC.
















水竹葉 Murdannia keisak
















台灣馬藍 Strobilanthes formosanus









Sowthistle tasselflower 紫被草 Emilia sonchifolia (L.) DC.
lilac tasselflower 紫背草 Emilia sonchifolia
Abandoned safe
Philip and Dan birdwatching from the road
Fligt over garden city
DaAi program
Greater Coucal 褐翅鴉鵑 Centropus sinensis
top of the 屈尺古道 Quchi path
lower garden reservoir
flight over Quchi 屈尺 after typhoon Soulik 蘇力
Sadness, our king snake is killed.
Community garden stairs
Community garden survey
Visitors: male/female Nutmeg Mannikins 斑文鳥 (bān wén niǎo) Lonchura punctulata
Tammy

2012

view of Qingtan 青潭 and Bitan 碧潭
Taiwan common toad 盤古蟾蜍 (pángǔ chánchú) Bufo bankorensis

2011

banana harvest (video)

2004

north view from office roof

Tammy and Dan

Tammy resting
Dan horizontal
Dan coming up to the meeting point