LOCATION: Thoeng, Chiang Rai
ESTABLISHED: 2014
As an agritourism farm, with a food-processing factory and a restaurant, Rai Ruen Rom is a paragon of the bioeconomy.
Its green ethos is obvious everywhere you look, from solar panels to the grassy banks built against guest room walls to keep them cool. But what is most striking is its endlessly creative application of circular economy principles.
To reach Rai Ruen Rom, which literally means ‘delightful farm,’ you wind your way over low hills from the main Chiang Rai–Chiang Khong road in a far corner of Thailand’s northernmost province. At the highest point, near-perfect conditions for an organic farm come into view: a broad, flat and peaceful valley, well-watered and with no highways or large villages. Founder Sirivimol (Apple) Kitaphanich started here in 2014 with four acres under rice cultivation and a mission to spread the word about sustainable living. She has since expanded to over 80 acres, twenty varieties of vegetable, and fruits ranging from mulberries to papayas, as well as herbs and flowers. Not forgetting the goats, sheep, chickens, ducks and geese…
THAILAND’S BCG TRANSFORMATION : 40 Case Studies on the Bio-Circular-Green Strategy and the Sufficiency Economy Philosophy In Action” page 118-121
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