The dam of the lake Dap Dom at the falling night
Photograph: An Tran

Heart

Helping the peasants to live on their grounds.

A part of the benefit is transferred directly to the villagers. These stockbreeders are the principal suppliers of the farm. To help the local population, to preserve the traditions and to protect nature are provisions to which the manager of the project is attached.

Godfather of the teams of sports and of primary school of the Commune, our lodging considers also the realization of hydraulic work and of a bamboo plantation on a large scale for the consolidation of the lakes of reserved water of the region. To ensure a durable development of breeding of fish and ducks, ancestral trade of our villagers. And also to take part to preserve this hinterland with thousand-year-old traditions of ethnic group Muong when an anarchistic urbanization is gaining ground in all the campaigns.

Villagers: More than 100 peasants-families of Cu Yen hope to profit one day a micro credit from 200 million dôngs (equivalent approximately 10 000 €) for the promotion of pisciculture, a traditional trade in perfect harmony with the environment of the region. And the commune, with an equivalent sum, hopes to be able to pave the principal road which connects it to the site of the Perfumes Pagoda.

You, Visitors: your stay on our premises will systematically contribute to develop this plan of helps with the micro credit of which we are, up to now, the only initiators and financier.

We-the hosts: we in the search of partnership with governmental agencies and if possible, with the ONG specialized in humanitarian aid such as  Vietnam Plus, Zebunet Vietnam, Homme of parole, Lumière d’Asie...

Our Idea is not new: To help the peasants to live on their grounds while making our village greener and more ecological. And why not, to make benefit our guests from the products of soil. Bio is a great word, but our ambition is to see that, one day, in our pots, brewed vegetables and fresh products, collected in our gardens.

Traditional trades and craftsmen
Preserving the countryside of the rural migration
Ancestral know-how and art of living

Thin, Thai young woman comes from May Chau to learn
weaving with the villagers at La Ferme du Colvert.
Photo: An Tran