Yayasan ‘Hidup Lestari Kembali’
Non Profit Organization ‘Live Sustainably Again’
In 2019 we created an Eco-School in Tabanan, where anybody could go, and live-in-residence, and learn whatever aspect of sustainability they had an interest in. Because, we were next to a retreat center that lives sustainably (off the grid, 6 hectare of gardens & jungle, etc etc). It was easy; the staff of the retreat just volunteered their time and the retreat center paid their salary.
Covid hit and the classes continued with Balinese students. But by the time Covid lifted and Bali had been hit with so many foreigners who wanted to take a bite out of Bali; Build hotels, AirBnB’s, Villas (a concrete house with a pool), we changed our focus. The retreat center still offers sustainability programs in a small introductory way, to inspire people to continue their sustainability journey in their own way.
We keep the memory alive, here on the web site, because we never know if or when someone might want to re-awaken the school.
THE SCHOOL CURRICULUM WAS THIS
108 ways to integrate nature & holistic living into your lifestyle with back-to-the-land basics
- Animal husbandry of chickens and ducks
- Aroma therapy in nature
- Bazillion ways to make soil
- Bee keeping in the tropics
- Brick making and building
- Build an outdoor kitchen
- Building with bamboo
- Chocolate or Coffee: grow, harvest, process, enjoy
- Coconuts — harvesting from trees
- Coconuts — making coconut oil, palm sugar, medicine juices
- Community service in a Balinese village
- Compost: destruction & reconstruction
- Cooking foraged foods and Balinese style
- Create your own toothpaste, shampoo, deodorant
- Destabilizing plastic in sunshine
- Find your relationship with nature and live it
- Fishing for eels in rice fields
- Forage & Harvest fresh food- Wash it, Cook it, Eat it
- Heritage vs Hybrid seeds for sustainability
- How to start a garden
- How we might live if everything goes sideways
- Impact of meditation on vegetables
- Integrate an intimate spiritual relationship with nature
- Learn and share with other ‘Sustainable Seekers’
- Medicine plants and herbs
- Moon planting
- Mulch for soil health
- Off-the-Grid (solar, hydro, wind)
- ‘Old-school’ farming techniques
- Propagation system
- Rice: grow and harvest
- Rodent management with owls
- Scavenger hunt for medicinal plants
- Share your ideas, experiments, and experiences
- Simple sustainable living at home
- Snakes, insects, turtles, critters
- Soil: good, bad, beautiful, ugly
- Star Gazing
- Subak: the famous Bali watering system
- Sustainability as a REAL possibility
- Tri Hita Karana: Balinese integration of human, planet, spirit
- Trips to other parts of Bali – (travel costs add-on)
- Walk barefoot in the muddy rice fields, planting rice
- Watering systems in dry season and wet season
- Weaving bamboo and coconut mats & walls or baskets or grass roofs
- Zero Chemical Farming techniques (owls, chickens, cats, birds, bats, bees)
- Zero Chemical farming – yummy food — REAL organic – no commercial fertilizer, pesticide, herbicide, fungicide
