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About Ocean Lotus Farm
Ocean Lotus Farm is a 85 acres rolling hill property, located at northeastern Pennsylvia, about 2 1/2 hours from New York city, 2 hours from Philadephia, 4 hours from Washington DC, and 5 hours from Pittsburgh. It was developed as a dairy farm, with a barn and silo to raise cows and store hay, spring-filled ponds and acres of hay field. Its farmhouse has a history of at least 150 years. In 1985, the family of Rowland purchased the property, improved and remodeled the house, and opened Ponda Rowland Bed and Breakfast Inn. Yuh-Hai and Hui-Lien bought the 50 acres including the house in 2002. In 2005, Hui-Lien's sister bought the other 35 acres across the street, which includes the barn, silo and ponds, as an effort to conserve its natural beauty and tranquility.
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About Yuh-Hai
Yuh-Hai (Ocean) Wang was born in Taiwan. He was graduated from Chi-Jen Primary School, Hong-Dao and Ren-Ai Junior High, and Jian-GuoSenior High, all in Taipei. Yuh-Hai was accepted into National Taiwan University in 1983, and later earned a bachelor degree of Computer Sciences and Information Engineering. After the college, he entered the Master degree program of the Department of Life Sciencesin National Tsing Hua University.
Immediately after graduation, he flied to the United States to pursue his American dream, even though it was not clear what it would be at that time. He enrolled into Biophysics & Biochemestry program of Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh and finished his Ph.D study in 2001, although long before that he already knew he can no longer stand a laboratory life. In 2002, they found the property in northeast Pennsylvanianow called Ocean Lotus Farm, and his dream begins.
After 5 years developing this property, in 2007 he was offered an opportunity to teach at the Graduate Institute of Natural Healing Sciences of NanHua Univerity, Taiwan. This is one of the field he is very interested, although he strongly believes that the most effective way and the foundation of natural healing is to live a natural life, the one he pursued at Ocean Lotus Farm. He takes the position as assistant professor and looks forward to learning more while preparing the courses.
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About our guests
Many of our guests are vegetarians or vegans, but even a meat eater will enjoy the healthy meals offered by Ocean Lotus Farm. Your hosts are Buddhists, but our guests include Jewish Rabbis, Catholic Fathers, Muslims and atheists. Some people return to this area for family reunion or class reunion, and we have met people visiting to find their roots. No matter what is the reason which brings you here, we find every guest of us is a nature lover, and we want to offer you the best we found at Ocean Lotus Farm -- Nature. The following are some examples our guests think of us.
Cherie Anderson
"Each day we are welcomed by smells from the kitchen. Lotus's talents extend far and wide. I took a bite of this pumpkin pie and couldn't even dissern what the unique berries in it were......"
-- Utopian Kitchen
John S. Hall
"These chickens seemed so happy and well treated that I could have felt comfortable eating eggs for the first time in several years."
-- SATYA magazine
Megan Haupt
"Their dream is to provide a place where people and their families can enjoy and experience natural living in accordance with Buddhist beliefs of spiritual harmony."
-- Naturally Urban
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About Hui-Lien
Yuh-Hai and Hui-Lien met each other at the beginning of 1992 in Pittsburgh, and later got married. Both of them were active volunteers of 
