"No," interjects his father, "your mother does the work of ten people." Native species During the farm's first decade of existence, Chuo Chen emulated the famed poet Tao Yuan-ming by disturbing her forest as little as possible. She conserved native species and used only the gentler slopes to raise Taiwan cherry, Chinese juniper, camellia and sweetgum.
原生物種的家坐擁大片山林，農場經營的前 10 年，卓陳明一心學做陶淵明，對於山林原貌儘量不做人為破壞，原生樹種多予以保留，較平坦的山坡地則栽種山櫻花、龍柏、茶花、楓香等花木，經營苗木販賣生意。