Every day Prayoon Pimpa entertains himself with an egg hunt in the 2 rai Akira Organic Farm (Facebook: baansuanakira) that he and his wife Netnapa started four years ago. Prayoon is the village head of Ban Tha Pai Mu Sam, 6km southeast of Pai downtown, and Netnapa works at a Wiang Nuea Tambon dministrationOffice. Adopting the late King Bhumibol’s sufficiency economy, the couple now enjoys a better quality of life they previously could not afford. Not only do they get fresh, chemical-free food at very little expense from the various plants and animals they grow in their smallfarm, they also earn extra income from selling excessive produce. From their 30 or so free-range chicken alone, they can collect at least 15 eggs each day, which is obviously too many for family consumption. For the sake of comparison,in Bangkok a pack of 10 organic chicken eggs costs 85 baht. That’s 8.5 baht each! Prayoon and Netnapa are not the only people in Pai who embrace organic andintegrated farming. In this part of Mae Hong Son province, it’s not rare to see maize or other crops sharing a plot with various plants and insects.