Green Farming Catching on in Bangkok

"When Anothai Kongwattana decided to open a healthful vegetarian restaurant in Bangkok she ran into one minor problem; she couldn't find any organic vegetables on the market.

Her solution was to launch her own organic farm. With the help of her green-thumbed husband, Gaan Ritkhachorn, the couple launched the "Pluk Rak," or "Grow Love" Farm in Ratchaburi, a two hour drive from Bangkok, in June 1999.

By August 2000, it was supplying truck loads of organically grown vegetables to the Anothai Restaurant on Bangkok's Rama IX Road, now a well-established eatery among health-conscious gourmands."

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