One year ago, he said goodbye to the artificial world of academia and abandoned his doctoral degree candidacy, but remained in Hualien. He decided to "replant" himself in the sort of country lifestyle he remembered from his childhood and at the same time live according to what he'd been planning for villages for years. What he did was open a community-supported organic vegetable stall.
一年前，他徹底告別「紙上談兵」的學術生涯，放棄了博士資格，卻仍留居花蓮，並且選擇「把自己種回去」──回到自己充滿土味的童年記憶，也回應這些年在規劃案中提出的農村發展課題──方法卻是開一間有機蔬菜的共同購買小舖。