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“Whenever I arrive in a foreign land, the first thing I do is ask the locals where the market is.” In June this year, mirroring the experiences of food writer Han Liangyi in *Wandering Through the World’s Markets*, I embarked on a journey of markets in Barcelona, Spain. Of the…
Recently, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, still reeling from the “heaviest rainfall in 60 years”, has begun to experience high temperatures following the start of autumn. This summer has truly been a case of “deep waters and scorching fires”, once again demonstrating the severity of extreme weather events to the public. While…
Key Takeaways The profitability of the practice has given rise to ‘professional counterfeit hunting’. After the Food Safety Law introduced a punitive damages system, increasing compensation from three-fold to ten-fold, a surge of professional hunters entered the food sector, where there was previously little to be gained. While this has…
Two summers ago, I graduated with a Master’s in Sociology and joined a leading real estate company to work in agriculture, feeling a mix of anticipation and anxiety. Three seemingly unrelated paths converged in this way; my decision to veer away from the mainstream career trajectory left my family and…
Over the last forty years, and particularly the last decade, China’s food system has undergone seismic shifts. Many of us have observed and experienced this: traditional wet markets are quietly vanishing from mainstream life, replaced by fresh-food e-commerce and online shopping as the primary sources for urban dwellers; cheap delivery…
In this episode of Food Talk, we are joined by our old friend, Sun Shan. Having previously worked for several non-profit organisations, including the Shan Shui Conservation Center, she now runs her own farm in Canada. Contrary to the idyllic image of spending one’s days in harmony with nature, ecological…
Letian Bay Farm in Fengxian, Shanghai, is certainly not your conventional eco-farm. When I began my internship here in March, I quickly realised that agriculture here was quite different from what I had imagined: it wasn’t just about farming, but also about leasing land and hosting events. It is truly…
During my three-month internship at Xingfuguo Baicaoyuan, the passage of time became a blur. I seem to remember only that the skies were overcast when I arrived, and bright and clear when I departed. I. Finding Baicaoyuan: A New ‘Peach Blossom Spring’ Xingfuguo Baicaoyuan is a farm located in Guigang,…
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In 2021, after a ten-year stint in Beijing which I ended for physical and mental health reasons, I returned to my hometown of Xin County in Shandong and stayed for nearly a year. Xin County is known as ‘China’s premier vegetable county’, with fruit and vegetable cultivation covering over a…
