Located in Chiang Mai, Thailand is the quiet village of Ban Yaang Phrathat. Just merely ten years ago, Ban Yaang Phrathat boasted of rice fields which were used for community gathering, sustainability, and helped maintain the practice of cultural tradition. Since then, the village has been hit hard by urbanization, with companies buying up rice fields from locals, monopolizing and turning it into residential development to welcome foreigners and city folks.

Handicraft Food Production focuses on re-establishing the sense of lost community by reviving former agricultural activities through a farm to table concept, with a village cooperative harvest and production compound.

Two village elders have maintained a sufficiency farm economy, based on King Rama 9’s model to the south of the temple compound. The project bookends these individual efforts with a cooperative village harvest and production compound along an irrigation canal that runs behind the temple and alongside rice fields to the west.