In July of 2006 the couple went to Japan to visit several farms that had adopted shumei methods. The purity and security of the self-sufficient farmers there prompted a sense of longing in them. When they returned to Taiwan, they decided to buy some land, where they established their own Hsiayun Natural Life Farm.
2006 年 7 月，夫妻倆到日本參訪秀明自然農法農莊，看到農戶自給自足的單純與安定，心生嚮往，回到台東後，當下決定購買農地，在荒地上開設了屬於自己的「夏耘自然生活農莊」。