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Farm
Visit Program
Advocating
organic agriculture and promoting organic food to the people
are our task. So our organic farm welcomes any entities,
groups or persons to apply for visiting our farm in Sheung
Shui, New Territories, Hong Kong.
Before
applying for the farm visit, please carefully read through
the following regulations.
Application
Regulations and Method of Payment
Arrangement
of Cancellation or Postponement
Special
Arrangement due to Bad Weather
Organic
Garden Farm Visit Regulations and Advice
Visit
Program Contents
Organic
Garden Farm Visit Contact
Application
Regulations and Method of Payment
- All visitors
are requested to fill in the farm visit application
form and to gain the farm visit confirmation from the
company.
- The charges
for the farm visit are listed in the application form
below. The application form can be downloaded directly
from below or obtained from the company by fax.
- Please submit
the filled application form to the company 4 weeks before
the preferred date of visit by fax. After submitting
the filled application form, please call the company
for confirmation on the receipt of the form.
- If the visit
is desired to take place within 4 weeks from the date
of application submission, please call the company for
confirmation.
- The basic
number of persons required for each visit is 20. If
the number of visiting persons is less than this figure,
please call the company for consent.
- Please pay
30% of the total charge of the visit as the visit reservation
deposit within 7 days after submitting the filled application
form by fax to the company. The balance (including the
lunch expenses) of the charge is required to be paid
one week before the date of visit in crossed cheque
payable to Organic Gardens International Ltd.
Please
send the crossed cheque to:
Flat F-G, 4/F., Block 2, Wah Fung Industrial Centre,
33-39 Kwai Fung Crescent, Kwai Chung, N.T., Hong Kong
or deposit in the Bank of East Asia , Account No.:
132-10-363-563
If the deposit
is failed to be paid within the required time, the visit
reservation will be automatically cancelled. The company
will confirm receipt of the deposit or the balance either
by telephone or fax.
- If the number
of visiting persons is requested to be increased after
the submission of the application, please check with the
company by telephone or fax. If the increment is permitted,
the charge difference due to the increment is required
to be paid up by crossed cheque to the company as soon
as possible.
- If there are
any inquiries about the transportation to the farm, please
contact our staff for assistance.
(Note: No
prior notice will be served if there are any changes
of the application regulations and the method of payment.)
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Arrangement
of Cancellation or Postponement
- If any farm
visit booking is requested to be cancelled or postponed
10 days before the date of visit (inclusive), an amount
of HK$ 300.00 will be deducted by the farm from the deposit
as the handling charge before the balance of the deposit
is refunded. However, if the farm visit booking is requested
to be cancelled within 10 days before the date of visit,
the whole sum of the deposit will not be returned. After
request for cancellation or postponement, a new booking,
if required, has to be done within one month with the
date of visit to be arranged within 3 months.
- If any meal
is requested to be cancelled 7 days before the date of
visit (inclusive), no payment is required.
- If any meal
is requested to be cancelled 4 days before the date of
visit (inclusive), half of the total charge for the meal
has to be paid.
- If any meal
is requested to be cancelled within 1 day before the date
of visit (inclusive), no payment will be returned for
the charges of the meal.
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Special
Arrangement due to Bad Weather
- If No. 3 typhoon
signal or rainstorm warning is announced by the Hong Kong
Observatory after 12:00 noon on the date immediately before
the date of visit, the visit due to be taken place in
the next day will be cancelled.
- If the rainstorm
warning is announced by the Hong Kong Observatory at or
after 7:00 am on the date of visit, the visit and all
the activities arranged for the whole day will be cancelled.
- If the visit
is cancelled due to the bad weather situation as stated
above, the visit will be arranged
again within 6 months after the date of cancellation.
The new date of visit has to be agreed by both parties.
- If the visit
is cancelled by the sole decision of the visiting group
or persons responsible for the booking and/or payment
of the visit, the deposit will not be refunded.
- If the visit
is cancelled due to the bad weather situations as stated
above, the costs of the lunch meal will be equally borne
by the farm and the visiting group or persons responsible
for the booking or the payment of the visit.
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Organic
Garden Farm Visit Regulations and Advice
In order to appreciate
the importance of organic agriculture and the advantages
of the organic vegetable, the visitors are required to pay
attention to some advice and to follow the regulations as
below:
- All visitors
have to follow the regulations as listed hereunder and
posted at the farm.
- Littering
and smoking are not allowed within the farm area. The
waste has to be littered into the trash bins. The farm
must be kept clean at all times.
- All visitors
are required to follow the instructions given by the farm
staff and are advised not to deviate the visiting route
individually from the arranged route while visiting the
fields. All visitors are forbidden to either play or work
in the fields without the permission from the farm staff.
The company, including the farm, and the employees of
the company will not bear any consequences due to the
wilful act by any individual visitors.
- Picking any
vegetable, flower or plants and trampling on the planted
fields within the farm is prohibited without permission
from the farm staff. If any visitors pick any vegetable,
flower and plants or trample on the fields without permission,
they will be charged at the corresponding price together
with extra surcharges.
- The visitors
are not allowed to touch and move any cultivation tools,
machines and watering switches in order to keep from danger.
- All visitors
are required to put their belongings into the assigned
place and to keep their valuables with them. All visitors
have to be responsible for the losses of their own belongings
and valuables during the visit.
- The price
of organic vegetable is higher than the inorganic vegetable
sold in the markets. Visitors are advised to contact the
farm staff if they want to purchase the organic vegetable
from the farm. No refund will be made for any purchase.
- Visitors are
advised to wear casually with the walking shoes as the
roads to the farm are a bit bumpy. It will be convenient
to wear raincoat rather than carrying the umbrella during
the drizzling rain.
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Visit
Program Contents
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Full
Day
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| 10:45 –
11:15 |
Brief on
Organic Cultivation |
| 11:15 –
12:00 |
Hands-on
Cultivation |
| 12:00 –
13:00 |
Lunch Time |
| 13:00 –
13:40 |
Organic
Pursuit |
| 13:40 –
14:20 |
Self-made
Organic |
| 14:20 –
15:00 |
Making Straw
Man |
| 15:00 –
15:30 |
Dessert
Break-Sweet Soup |
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Half
Day
|
| 10:45 –
11:15 |
Brief on
Organic Cultivation |
| 11:15 –
12:00 |
Hands-on
Cultivation |
| 12:00 –
13:00 |
Dessert
Break-Sweet Soup |
–Afternoon
half-day program starts at 13:30
- The above
program contents will be adjusted according to the weather
of the date of visit or the availability of the farm staff.
- Catering services
from the company's associated restaurants, Dai Pai Dong,
with organic vegetable for the lunch can be arranged (in
the form of buffet).
- Drinks (organic
soymilk, organic ginger drink, distilled water ...etc.)
and different types of organic food can be bought from
the store at the farm.
- No parking
place is available at the farm. Please contact us for
assistance if parking is required.
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Organic
Garden Farm Visit Contact
Tel: (852) 2420
2472
Fax: (852) 2407
4433 or 2489 8705
e-mail:
info@organicgarden.com.hk
Office Hour:
9:30 am – 5:00 pm during Monday – Friday 9:30
am – 12:00 noon
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