The First Paddy 初號田

Stop 8 of the Wetland walk · 濕地路線第8站

The first farmland brought back into farming, opened by hand with spades from May 2023, and the largest fenced field.

It was chosen first because it lies low, where there is more water, and is the biggest continuous plot.

In November 2023 it gave Shui Hau its first rice in nearly 50 years; the village head and villagers cut, threshed and hulled it themselves.

It took three months to bring this first and largest field back.

The rice here is covered with nets, for the harvest: without them, birds once ate about 70% of the rice.

Watercress is being tried here too.

第一塊復耕的農地，2023 年 5 月起以人手一鏟一鏟開闢，亦是面積最大、設有圍欄的農地。

選擇在此首先復耕，因為它位處低窪、水源較多，亦是最大的一整片連續農地。

2023 年 11 月收成，是水口近半世紀以來首次有米；由村長及村民親手收割、打禾及去殼。

用了三個月才完成復耕這塊首塊、亦是最大的農地。

這裏的稻米蓋上網，以確保收成：未有蓋網時，雀鳥曾吃掉約七成稻米。

團隊亦在此試種西洋菜。