Rediscover Mui Wo

Features stories of twelve new and old Mui Wo residents, eco-farmers and conservationists, as well as a map of Mui Wo villages from the 1960s.
Delves into the local history of Mui Wo since the 1950s and the evolution of agriculture on Hong Kong's outlying islands.
Through people, culture, land, scenery, and produce,
This book opens up a Mui Wo agricultural community that transcends the "prosperity" vs. "decline" framework.
The "Good Soil" research team, combining local experience with historical excavation, uncovers Mui Wo's multifaceted identity beyond "tourist hotspot" and "remote island"—an "agricultural hub" brimming with vitality from the 1950s to the 1980s, and an "outlying island diverse community" that serendipitously formed after the millennium. The book meticulously describes how rice, vegetable, and fruit cultivation shaped the agricultural rural landscape of the island, and also shares the "Good Soil" team's practical experience in intervening in Mui Wo's community networks and building relational populations; it offers both detailed "archaeology" and forward-looking "contemporary study." In an era where developmentalism and conservation issues run in parallel, the research team, through the past and present agricultural landscapes of Mui Wo, strives to break down the conceptual barriers between "nature" and "human intervention" in conservation, proposing new directions for rural community building.