Feun Foo Permaculture & Rewilding

Chanthaburi

Features At This Location

Farm / Food Production

A hyper-diverse food jungle for aspiring modern-day foragers adapting to the Anthropocene.

Feun Foo is a small, 8-rai forest garden on a steep hillside in the foothills of the Cardamom Mountains, Chanthaburi, founded in late 2018 on land that was pesticide-free for nearly 30 years. The founders have built a highly diverse, largely self-sufficient food system - growing vegetables, fruit and forest trees, medicinal herbs, staple crops and wild plants - while restoring topsoil, practising seed saving, compost toileting, solar energy, and open-fire cooking. Guided by indigenous ecological knowledge and what they call 'primitive permaculture,' Feun Foo focuses on climate adaptation, food sovereignty, and hyper-local community work; occasional guests welcomed by prior arrangement only.

How to Get There:

Visits only possible upon request.

Visiting Policy:

Visits by prior arrangement only; no longer hosts regular volunteers.

View across a forested hillside of regenerating jungle at Feun Foo, with a small tiled-roof hut nestled among the trees and morning mist in the distance.A man and a young girl standing arm in arm on a stone step in front of a rustic wooden cabin surrounded by dense tropical greenery at Feun Foo.Hand-painted Thai-language entrance sign with a green corrugated-metal roof, mounted on wooden posts among tropical shrubs at the Feun Foo permaculture garden.A mulched earthen path winding through a young food forest of cassava, banana and ground-cover plantings, leading toward a wooden hut at Feun Foo.A shaded garden clearing framed by overhanging trees and leaf litter, with mixed perennial plantings and a low woven retaining edge at Feun Foo.A small yellow earthen-walled cabin with a slanted roof and decorative vented windows, tucked into lush jungle planting at Feun Foo.An array of metal bowls and woven baskets filled with sorted seeds, beans and dried produce laid out on the ground to dry at Feun Foo.A broad landscape of green forested valley with a lone tall tree in the foreground and a hazy mountain range under a blue sky at Feun Foo.A dense polyculture planting bed mixing palms, leafy greens and vegetables among bamboo and tree trunks in the Feun Foo jungle garden.A cultivated garden bed of young seedlings and ground cover supported by a simple bamboo trellis, surrounded by regenerating forest at Feun Foo.

Associated People

David B. Lauterwasser
David B. LauterwasserFarmer / Practitioner
Anuthida “Karn” Moolnam
Anuthida “Karn” MoolnamFarmer / Practitioner