Year-round escape to the countryside
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BLESSED with fresh air, clean water and unspoiled countryside, Songjiang Wushe Modern Agricultural Park on the southern banks of the Huangpu River offers an ideal getaway for urban day-trippers.
Visitors can pick fruits and vegetables, fish in canals and water holes, peruse plants and flowers from around the world or just relax and enjoy rural meals of local delicacies.
The farm grows tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots and beans, among other vegetables, and has fruit orchards. Breeding projects include the cultivation of foreign varieties, such as the South American green tomato, Dutch papaya and Japanese melons.
In spring, visitors can help harvest organic grapes; in summer, fresh corn; and in autumn, organic rice. In winter, they can sit in a warm farmhouse where local delicacies simmer in the kitchen. Not to be missed are red-braised eel with bacon and egg rolls, soup dumplings stuffed with minced goat meat and salt-fried pepper fish.
Visitors can also take home produce from the farm. All fruits and vegetables they pick are priced at 15 yuan (US$2.20) for a half-kilo. Fresh corn sells for 5 yuan an ear. It can be cooked on site to enjoy the sweetest juiciness.
Farm plots can also be rented for those who want to grow their own vegetables. Families come for weekends to plow, plant, fertilize and harvest their crops of tomatoes, melons and beans.
The tomato portion of the farm cultivates a wide variety of species in different shapes and colors. Wushe Modern Agricultural Park hosts flower festivals throughout the year. In spring, cherry and peach flowers are featured; in summer, lotus and water lilies. In winter, the focus moves into greenhouses, where orchids are grown.
Every autumn from late September to the end of October, the farm features 17 hectares of blooming chrysanthemum in every imaginable shape and color.
The park is Shanghai’s largest cultivator and seller of succulent plants. Its 30-hectare Chunfang Succulent Plants Market boasts about one million potted plants in more than 600 varieties. It also showcases extremely rare varieties that can be valued at more than 10,000 yuan per pot.
There are several grow-it-yourself zones for succulent aficionados.
Wushe Modern Agricultural Park is a wonderland for China. There are dog kennels with breeds from around the world and also Shanghai’s biggest tortoise farm.
In addition, the park includes an agricultural science museum, with five exhibition halls showing China’s 6,000-year history of rice planting, cotton cultivation and the evolution of farm tools.
Visitors can try their hand at weaving homespun cloth on the old-fashioned loom or sewing cotton handkerchiefs.
In the Hall of Seeds, people can take a close look at the seeds that once traveled in space with Shenzhou spacecraft in recent decades.
The park also has exhibitions of ethnic cultures in China.
Address: 1699, Yexinzhi Road, at the junction of Yexin and Huahui roads
Tel: 5787-8245, 5787-7988, 5787-8181
Hours: 9am-6pm
Admission: 50 yuan. Free parking.
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