What We Provide

Accommodation: We have huts made of bamboo, mud, or teak wood. We provide mosquito nets, mattress, and blanket. If you prefer to sleep in a tent, there's plenty of good camping spots scattered around the farm. Our volunteers described their stay here as “Billion Stars Luxury Off Grid Camping”.

Food: we cook on fire stove with firewood collected in the farm. Farm harvested organic brown rice and vegetarian or vegan food will be prepared depending on harvest of the day. When needed, we buy some stuff from the local market to support the organic planting community. We are very used to prepare special diet such as gluten-free or any other allergic diet (peanuts/soy bean/mango/sesame..), please inform us if you have any allergic. We do not use any aluminum pot or wok for cooking, we use stainless steels utensils, coconut bowls, bamboo spoons and bamboo chopsticks. Students and volunteers are encouraged to contribute in cooking when they are available.

Electricity: We provide charging station for phones, laptops, headlamps, etc. we generate electricity from solar panels. Please bring your own charger.

Toilet and Shower: We have successful self-composting toilets (hassle-free, odorless, you will not see others poop in the toilet) and showers, you need to bring your own towels, and tissue paper (if you need). We allow only organic soap which is free from SLS, Paraben or any other harmful chemicals. You can buy organic soap in our farm (100 Baht to 350 Baht).

Internet: Free WiFi is available at coffee shops and restaurants about a 5 minutes motorbike ride (25 minutes walk) from the farm. You can also use internet access form your phone with a Thai sim card. Cellphone reception on the farm is good, but only for Thai cellphone services like True, AIS and DTAC, and signal from True is the best in our farm so far.

Water: We are blessed to have 100% clean spring water from mountain about 1km away from our farm for using. It doesn’t contaminated by any other farm or agricultural chemical. This springs water from forest is safe to drink straight from the tap, but we still have water filter system to make our water even cleaner. Everyone loves the sweet fresh taste of our natural spring water.

Laundry: we wash our laundry with water and soap in the buckets. There is laundry service in the town (6km away) if you need.

Weather: Please check the weather forecast in Thung Chang, from November to March the temperature can be as low as 5’C in some night, we provide blanket but please also prepare suitable clothing such as warm jacket. From March to June can be quite hot in the afternoon like 38’C in some day. From June to October is the raining season, this is the time when we do most of the planting, so it is perfect for those who love to learn and experience planting with us especially rice planting. Unlike other part of northern Thailand, we do not have the problem of big burning and heavy smoke in Thung Chang since we are staying here.

Yoga & Meditation: we have a little huts on the hill that you can enjoy sunrise. This hut is nice for yoga and meditation, but it can only fit about three yogi at the same time. Besides, we also have a big multipurpose hall that we can do yoga and meditation. It can fit about 10 person for yoga although it is only half way done. We are working on completing this multipurpose hall into a beautiful space in the future.

Transport: Our farm is 3km from the main road, around 25 minutes by walking. If you need to go to town, you can follow our car whenever we are going. We have no service taxi here, but we have two motorbikes that we can rent you for 100 Bath per day, to support these motorbike yearly taxes and the maintenance fee.

Nearby touristic places: We are very near to Nan River in Huay Phan Village, the river is crystal clear when there is no rain around the mountains. The kids in the village swim and play in the river every afternoon. Jungle trekking are offered by the villagers in Huay Phan Village, they can guide you for forest foraging and waterfall, you can also request to stay one or two nights in the forest with them, the price is about 1000Baht per person for one night. There are also other waterfall like “Taat Man Waterfall” 45 minutes drive from our farm. Whereas our friend “Sisawalai” owns a local traditional handmade cotton and silk factory, she has her own farm beside her factory planting organic cotton, plants to extract natural dyes, teak wood trees and bamboos to make the weaving machine. If you are lucky, you can join her for dyeing the cloth, weaving, or foraging in her food forest! All her weaving are exported to Japan or sent to Chiang Mai and Bangkok, but if you buy directly from her with factory price, you save so much than buying in the big city! Other than that, we have nice organic coffee farm that we want to recommend you to visit, you will have chance to taste amazing local Nan coffee there and bring some coffee beans back home.

Everything else—the beautiful mountain scenery, the new friendships, the simple lifestyle and the limitless opportunities for education and personal growth—is all part of the experience!

Financial Contribution: 200 baht per night per person. We encourage people to stay at least five nights in our farm for better experience and learning. If you stay only 3 nights or less, we collect 300 baht per night per person. If you stay 4 or 5 nights, we collect a total of 1000 baht per person.

If you wish to stay with us and enjoy your own time without involving in any volunteering activities, please click Farmstay.

Your money will be used for organic food production in our farm expenses such as buying buffalo or cow manure from the locals, gardening tools, soil rebuilding, kitchen facilities, spring water system management, solar power system maintenance, transportation fuel, natural building maintenance, fee to hire locals to join our projects, expenses on free permaculture education for local village kids and farmers, and etc.

Daily volunteers activity:

6am-8am harvesting, prepare breakfast and activities (take turn), yoga and meditation

8am-9am breakfast

8am-10.30am morning outdoor activities

10.30am – 12pm prepare lunch

12pm-2.30pm lunch and siesta

2.30pm-4pm afternoon activities

4pm – 5.30pm prepare dinner

5.30pm dinner and rest

Usually, if there is no special events or farm emergency, we bring volunteers to visit local community and local permaculture school on every Friday. We also visit Saturday evening market in the town and enjoy some local food there.

Most of the activities are for learning and experiences. Time table will be changed according to weather and situation, please be flexible to adapt. We choose one day per week as holiday, normally it is Saturday.