Soon after, seeing that his farm with its 200,000 chickens, 80,000 ducks, and more than 5000 pigs would be uncompetitive after Taiwan joined the WTO, Chen turned it into the famously forested Yiyuan Resort. People have also called it in fun "The Old Tree Rescue Center" and "The Homeless Tree Shelter."
就在大量移植的老樹進駐後，因應政府加入 WTO 政策，陳勝德便將原先養殖二十萬隻雞、八萬隻鴨和五千多頭豬的畜牧農場，轉型成今日以多樹聞名的怡園度假村，還被人戲稱這裡是「老樹收容中心」和「流浪樹之家」。