Eco-Logic Thailand

Chumphon

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Regenerative eco-resort and circular campus with an organic farm and food forest in Phato, Chumphon

Eco-Logic Thailand is an eco-resort and "circular campus" set among rainforest and fruit plantations in the village of Paksong, in Phato district, Chumphon, around 45 km from Ranong city. Running since 2004, it pairs a place to stay with a working organic farm and a learning environment focused on self-sufficiency and circular living. Stays here support the Thai Child Development Foundation (TCDF), whose visitor centre and school for children with special needs share the same campus.

The grounds bring together a vegetable farm, herbal plots, a mushroom farm, fish ponds and aquaponics, chickens and ducks, coffee shrubs, and a maturing food forest of edible plants and fruit trees. A Slow Food restaurant serves farm-to-fork meals using the campus's own produce where possible, and guests can join cooking classes, foraging and food-forest tours, yoga and meditation at a riverside shala, herbal steam sauna and massage, and trips to nearby waterfalls, rivers, hot springs and islands.

For those wanting to learn by doing, Eco-Logic offers a Helping Hands volunteering program and a range of month-long Share & Stay work-exchange placements in gardening, hospitality, yoga teaching, and photography/videography. Several placements include accommodation and three daily meals; the volunteering program is a paid-stay arrangement. The site also mentions internships for permaculture enthusiasts.

This is a regenerative, farm-and-food-forest learning and farmstay location rather than a permaculture school: there is no published Permaculture Design Course (PDC). It suits visitors who want hands-on organic-farming and food-forest experience, a wellness-focused jungle stay, or a volunteering placement with a social purpose.

How to Get There:

In the village of Paksong, Phato district, Chumphon, set among rainforest and fruit plantations roughly 45 km from Ranong city. The campus is on the routes toward Ranong and Koh Phayam.

Visiting Policy:

Open to overnight guests across a range of accommodation, from campsite and dormitory to bungalows. The Slow Food restaurant, wellness activities, and food-forest tours are part of the guest experience. Volunteering (Helping Hands) and month-long Share & Stay work-exchange placements are available, several running roughly November to March. Contact ahead to arrange a stay, a placement, or a visit.

Sunlight streaming through banana leaves and dense rainforest foliage in the food forest at Eco-Logic Thailand, Phato, Chumphon.Aerial view of a shallow river winding through palm plantations and forested hills, with people gathered on the riverbank, at Eco-Logic Thailand, Phato, Chumphon.A planting of pineapple plants bearing fruit on a grassy slope below coconut palms and forested hills at Eco-Logic Thailand, Phato, Chumphon.A smiling man in a yellow straw hat holding a ripening pineapple still growing on its plant in the garden at Eco-Logic Thailand, Phato, Chumphon.A smiling man in a yellow hat holding a large bunch of green and ripening bananas among fruit trees at Eco-Logic Thailand, Phato, Chumphon.A person planting seedlings by hand into a raised bed made from cut tyres in the organic garden at Eco-Logic Thailand, Phato, Chumphon.Two women tending flowering gourd vines on a trellis in a raised-bed vegetable garden at Eco-Logic Thailand, Phato, Chumphon.Three children in sun hats holding freshly collected eggs beside the chicken run on the farm at Eco-Logic Thailand, Phato, Chumphon.Guests seated at rustic wooden tables in the open-sided Slow Food restaurant at Eco-Logic Thailand, Phato, Chumphon.A group of young volunteers gathered around a newly planted tree on a green hillside with forest behind at Eco-Logic Thailand, Phato, Chumphon.A woman relaxing with eyes closed beside a bowl of fresh herbs in the herbal steam sauna at Eco-Logic Thailand, Phato, Chumphon.