Selling a house to plant land!After the 80s, beauty designers created the Chinese version of "Little Forest"
Author:Food table Time:2022.07.22
The post -80s designer Xiaoli, at the age of 22, runs a design studio in Beijing, and has achieved economic independence at the age of 27. After 5 years of "emptying herself", she stopped herself. She resolutely sold the house and closed the studio to find a new lifestyle and self.
At the age of 30, he rented 10 acres (about 6,000 square meters) farmland in Dali, Yunnan, and began his own life. Now, looking back at the past, at the age of 38, she thinks that selling houses to farm is her best life decision!
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Xiaoli in the field
Starting from scratch, studying vegetables, turning on tractors, working farming, feeding chicken and duck ... 8 years of operation, "wild land" has been transformed into a new landmark of Dali, with fresh fruits at four o'clock, wild foods in the mountains, small animals, small animals, small animals, small animals, small animals We grew wantonly, and the four seasons are vivid and romantic.
Jing Bairan came here to shoot the magazine. Teacher Gong Linna was a frequent visitor. People were attracted by a comfortable life. Netizens said: This is not the Chinese version of "Little Forest".
We contacted Xiaoli "farmer" and listened to her story that belonged to her.
The following is Xiaoli's self -report:
I am Xiaoli, a post -80s designer. I have my own farm on Dali. It has been in the Rainbow Hunter Farm for 8 years.
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Farm now loofah and tomatoes
Ten years ago, I was a designer who started a business in Beijing. I only slept for 4 hours a day and lasted for 5 years. At that time, I seemed to be a bottle full of overflowing. It was too full, so I left Beijing temporarily and went to the world.
When I went to France, Germany, Italy, Southeast Asia, and some third world countries, when I went to a Inn beside Dali Shuanglang, I suddenly discovered that I was quiet. After spending a month in Dali, I resolutely decided to return to Beijing to sell the house and resign.
I have lived in Dali for a few years. Until 8 years ago (2014), I was passing by this farmland on a motorcycle. Light, I seemed to see the childhood field.
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Ueiced strawberry and tomato
I stopped the car and asked the elder sister who worked in the field? In a few minutes, I rented the 20 -year use period of the farmland. Standing in that field the next day, my mood was very complicated, a little excited, a little scared, a little helpless ...
This place has 20 years of time that belongs to me. Is this the case in the next half of my life? There was no answer in my heart.
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Rainbow of Rainbow Farm
I named this field as "Rainbow Hunter Farm". The location where it is located all year round. Rainbow often appears after the rain. The hunter refers to me. Life here is like a hunter without a gun. Exploring the mountains and forests around the heart, get along with nature.
Farm life seems to be simple, but it is actually busy.
The real farm life is not to drink coffee to bask in the sun. Most of the time is working. Daily maintenance of the farm, taking care of animals and plants, fighting diseases and insect pests, cope with bad weather ... It is the norm of the farm until nine or ten o'clock in the evening.
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The current farm door
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Corner of the farm
The farm that just got the hand was flat, and it could be called a wild. At first I had no plan for this, it was just a small vegetable garden.
I do n’t know how to plant land. I buried my head and buried their heads. Like many urban people, I thought in all seasons, it should naturally be given. Tomatoes can keep up upward without the support of branches. As long as I dig a pit and bury the peanuts, I will germinate ... In the end, I only planted a green onion.
Later, I followed the local farmers to learn about planting vegetables, driving tractors, dried all kinds of farm work, and fed chickens and ducks.
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The plums on the farm and the glutinous corn just planted
After skilled, the process of planting has become much simpler, just take care of plants like people.
When the grass is too long, trim it for it, just like people cut their hair. It is too hot to water, like a person who is thirsty and drinks water. If you cool down and rain, you need to cover it. When you heat, you need to heat dissipation. As long as you take care of it, these vegetables will naturally be happy.
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Small animals on the farm
In addition to vegetables, most of the cats, dogs, and chickens in the farm are also rescued or picked up.
The rescued hen did not dare to go down when they first came. The bare legs stood on the grass, and now they pull the land and take off their eggs and take off every day.
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Rabbit on the farm, picture source Gaoyang
I remember when I started raising animals, God seemed to try to try whether I wanted to stay here. The tornado was scratched on the farm, and all the just rabbit sheds that had just been set were destroyed.
The water in the wooden house has not passed the knee, and the furniture that lighten the furniture drifted on the water like a boat. I thought at the time that the shed collapsed and reopened, as long as this land was enough.
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Fruit and vegetable that I just picked up
It is an exciting thing to build an ideal world from zero. Many friends who live in ancient cities have heard that I have a "small vegetable field" and ran to the countryside to help. Some people brought seeds, some brought wood transformation of wood transformation Little wooden house, some people can cook ...
Gradually, there was a well in the field, dug ponds, built a toilet, and even installed the solar system ... As the farm was on track, I recruited some volunteers and local farmers. Come to help.
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Xiaoli harvested on the farm
Insect pests are the biggest troubles currently facing the farm. In order to follow the natural agricultural law, I did not choose to use pesticides, but I grabbed it with bare hands. The insects that can't be caught can only be counted. For me, I do n’t want to be eager for yield when I work hard, just do it casually. ▲
Wild seedlings in the farm
The days of running the farm are very different from the original life. It is like a small forest here. The owl will come as a guest. The birds of Cangshan are willing to stay. I do n’t talk well myself.
Studying recipes is the second important major event in the Rainbow Hunter Farm in addition to planting land.
In the early days of the founding of the farm, friends and foreign friends who came to volunteers would make their own special dishes in the "small vegetable garden". Israeli friends make stews, Italian friends are old -fashioned Italian cuisine, Chengdu friends make Sichuan cuisine ...
The Rainbow Hunter Farm has both the health and nature of Western -style light food, but also the soul of Chinese food. Different dishes are made according to ingredients in different seasons, and there are no national borders here.
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Frog back slate
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Wormwood
The daily meals are arranged clearly by seasons, and all I need to do is to respect, see and taste it.
In the spring, wisteria flowers are used for wheat rice, the roses are sunny, and the fresh broad beans make the frog back slate with characteristic characteristics of Yunnan. In the early summer, the plums are picked, the tomato is red and gorgeous, and the raw or grilled grilled is very delicious.
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DIY vanilla tea
Referred some vanilla and flourish, lemon piston, making tea, glazed salads, Lales leaves boiled into pasta sauce ... Midsummer is the world of melon, watermelon rusty, cucumber crispy, loofah grow up, pick one with one hand, pick one at hand, and pick one with one hand. They are all giant levels.
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Beef liver fried egg
When the rainy season comes, go to the mountains to pick mushrooms. The mushrooms picked will be made into native chicken mushroom rice noodles. If you are lucky, you can find beef liver bacteria, cut the beef liver bacteria into slices, and fry the eggs sent by two "friends in the field" (pigeon), and a delicious morning is completed.
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Cooked fig
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Grapefruit cake, boiled pear paste sugar
In the late summer, the figs full of trees must be picked. Fresh walnuts are also in the season. The autumn wind is small, the pear is full of branches, boiled with pear cream sugar, moisturizing the throat and cough.
In winter, sit around the hut to roast fire, drink coffee, eat barbecue, pickle ham, and fill the sausage for claypot rice. By the time of the beginning of the spring, the small farm bloomed a new vitality, and wild vegetables and bamboo shoots seemed to end up.
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Walnuts
The output of the farm has almost no waste. All of them are used to make seasonal deliciousness, dry, grind, or make sauce, pickled ... are all fresh preservation methods. There is no menu to eat on the Rainbow Hunter Farm. What you find in the farm today and what is on the ground, you eat what you eat.
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Milk parasitic bacteria and speaker bacteria
In addition to the rainbow, I will also move the table to the wild, and I name it "Hunter's Wild Table".
Unlike the farm, all ingredients at the hunter table are unknown. I think it is very interesting to find ingredients in the mountains and forests. It is very interesting to use dead wood, picking fresh fungi and berries in the mountains, catching fish in the river pond, and creating a delicious meal for yourself.
When the fungus season was over last September, a few huge milk pulp and speaker bacteria were found between the mountains and forests.
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Hunter's outdoor dining table
The hunter's dining table belongs to nature, everything comes from nature. What humans need to do are just capture. If we take the Australian M9 and M10 high -grade steaks to camping, it is just a place to eat barbecue.
There are more and more people who have chosen into an open farm because there are more and more people visiting. The time for my work is disrupted. Every day, I do n’t seem to do anything except for visitors.
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Baked meat when receiving guests
I decided to officially open to the public in May 2019, but I set two rules. First, only a few visitors are received every day. Second, only the pm is open to the public at 2: 30-5: 30 in the afternoon. The two rules have continued to this day.
After setting up the rules, I finally returned to the life of the previous quietness. I can take care of the animals and plants, the yoga, I can enjoy the Dali morning sun, and the meaning of coming to Dali again: earning time.
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Little golden retriever who helps work
Every afternoon I can meet different friends. Everyone gather together and enjoy the happy and leisurely time of Dali.
The "mascot" of the farm -Golden Retriever "Chitose" runs wildly on the grass. The vanilla garden grows in the vanilla garden, mint, mint, and lemongrass. You can pick your favorite vanilla DIY vanilla tea.
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Realize the freedom of blueberry
The blueberry harvest in summer, you can realize "free blueberry" here, the endless blueberry can still boil into blueberry jam by yourself. The poetic life in "Little Forest" seems to suddenly shine into reality. After busy this, you can also sit on the open -air platform, blow off, watch the cloud, and eat the food made of seasonal fruits and vegetables in the farm.
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Work with friends
Music teacher Gong Linna had become friends with me as early as 2018. She often came to chant and laugh with everyone. Travelers who come from afar will choose to have a living day banquet or wedding here. There are both Western -style freedom and freshness, as well as the lively and solemn of the Bai people. I talked to everyone while cooking, busy and fulfilling.
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Winter stove, spring wine coffee
Some people say that the Rainbow Farm is so beautiful. Some people say that the stamina is enough. For me, I don't want to create the so -called "net red" farm.Responsible editor: Hattie
Author: Phoebe
Photography: Gao Sheep
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