Introductions, activities, progress updates, participant records, and reviews related to the Lianhe Programme.
From the Miao ancestors’ long migration south and the mountains’ salt scarcity, the piece traces white sour soup’s rice-water fermentation, red sour soup’s evolution through tomatoes and chillies, and the place sour soup holds in marriages, ancestral rites and festivals.
Over three months at Xiqing Farm in Zhangziying Town, Daxing, Beijing, Tianyi saw how weeds retain moisture, ants herd aphids, and a water-starved sweet pepper turns to flowering and seeding — the living logic of land and crops behind repetitive labour.
Through Foodthink’s Eco-Agricultural Internship Programme, this Gen Z intern spent three months at Lexiangu Community Farm in Shanghai’s Fengxian District, raising seedlings, weeding, repairing a roof, tending sheep and dogs, working at market stalls, and gaining the courage to explore the future.
Foodthink’s Lianhe Programme-funded “Fake Meat” Drives Out Real Meat drew over a hundred reader comments, from “herders just want higher prices” to “rainforest burning across the ocean concerns every living creature”. Imported Brazilian beef’s link to Amazon deforestation is far more complex than “nothing to do with us”.
Summer arrives, and with it, another season for watermelon. Watermelons are inseparable from summer, just as the farmers behind the fruit evolve alongside their crop. Wherever there is land, you will find the watermelon farmers of Taizhou. Their history of enterprise dates back to the 1980s, forming another chapter in…
Eight years from Xiji, Ningxia, to Shenzhen have reduced Ma Lan’s halal food choices almost entirely to Lanzhou hand-pulled noodles and cooking for herself. Eating has become something she always faces alone.
Grass-fed yak meat prices on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau have fallen year after year, while imported grain-fed meat from Brazil, New Zealand and elsewhere floods Tibetan-area shops at half price — leaving herders who live off livestock in a bind: they cannot sell their animals, nor afford to eat meat.
Foodthink’s Take On 16 February, Foodthink hosted an in-person sharing session centred on *Fake Meat Displaces Real Meat*, a featured work of the Lianhe Creative Project. The author and guest panellists engaged in a lively discussion on topics such as the impact of imported meat and the future of traditional…
Qiaoyun’s family moved from the Nanling Yao Mountains to the plains beside Shaoguan Danxia Airport in the 1990s. The mountain-and-forest intuition sharpened by generations of shifting cultivation lets them find Summer Solstice Mushrooms earlier than others in the mushroom-foraging army.
Three months interning at Guixinyuan Farm in Huizhou — weeding, feeding chickens, studying weeds — then touring farms in Guangdong, Guangxi, and Beijing, Zejun found ecological agriculture offers no single right answer: only a spectrum, and a way of thinking.
