Organic Farm

Organic farming is more than growing good foods. It is a way of life. It is connected to the soil, the land, and the environment. It is about the water and the air, the biodiversity around us and the ecology. It is about balance and integration and managing a myriad of elements and products as sensitively as possible.

We are developing integrated methods and practices of small scale organic farming. Our motivation comes from the idea that 'We are what we eat,' so we are conscious of all the processes of making good food.

Using a combination of permaculture design, natural farming practices and small edible food forest we are capitalising on small space and abundant, healthy production.

The organic farm serves as a canvas for hands-on learning and workshops and includes the animal farm and all its processes and the aquaponics system along with productive gardening and traditional herbs, spices, teas and medicines from the earth.

Environmental education

Green-Ed offers unique learning modules both in nature and online. Green-ed is a multi-sensory learning engagement that crosses environmental education with up-skilling in entrepreneurial business and creative arts. It is values designed and delivered holistic education through head, hands, heart – active -reflective learning approaches.

Green-Ed is suitable for add-on homeschooling modules, adult masterclasses or personal interests, and workshops that can supplement existing curriculums or stand alone as experience-based learning. Discover hands-on sustainable practices through first-hand experiences, sustainable practices, and exploring values-based processes.

Learn to harness natural cycles with multiple integrated outputs, embrace food from seed to culinary, productive gardening and permaculture design, creative green waste management and sustainable building.

Recycle, remake, regenerate, reclaim, restore

Managing our waste plastic and green waste has become a new exciting project. Building and making with recycled materials and restoring old things to make them fresh or re-using items in different ways – practical, helpful, zero waste and environmentally friendly – is sustainable practice at 5EyesFarm.

Sustainable practice starts with recycling. All that plastic waste – what do we do with it?  We manage it by making eco-bricks for building – plastic drink bottles that we fill with small plastics from wrappers, straws, bags etc. We hope to slowly expand the plastic waste management throughout the village, the region, and beyond.

Organic waste – we use for compost and for breeding insects that we will feed to the animals for their high protein content. We see the conversion of all this excellent waste turned into something useful for the earth and farming systems, growing good food and raising healthy animals.

Sustainable practice starts with a change of focus from consumers seeking convenience to sustainers caring about impacts. Asking questions like where products come from, what kind of packaging, to use alternatives, how to save money, can we re-using, upcycle, remake, and try different options? Sustainability looks for long term solutions and is a creative practice that makes a small difference to the world we live in as we seek to produce a zero footprint for all that we do.

“We are what we eat” – Frank Zappa.

Ultimately 5eyesfarm is all about good food. We are learning where our food comes from and what it can do for us. We are also learning what we can do with food combinations. We can make juices, cakes, meals and combined flavours. It’s an ongoing creative experiment that we plan to integrate with traditional plant foods and create unique healthy culinary delights. 

We are learning the value of food and exploring how to prepare and combine good food, naturally preserve and store and package foods and the fantastic range of possibilities that can be great food in all its scope. 

The 5EyesKitchen is always buzzing with amazing foods and juices, desserts and cakes, loaves and fishes and experimental dishes. These come from the farm’s wide range of organic produce, and we are developing recipes and providing exotic spreads to guests and groups who take our tours, workshops, and field trips. 

Connecting through a model farm

Our primary purpose at 5EyesFarm is to create an education model based on organic farming and permaculture principles. The model is purposefully small scale to prove food sustainability for smallholder farmers and families. Subsistence farming, derived from the monoculture practices of big Ag and big business, is not a sustainable approach long term any more than the fossil fuel industry is viable going forward. We need alternative approaches that look back to traditional small scale agriculture and embrace contemporary technologies and methods with a values base.

It is good news that the UN is promoting the current global interest for small scale organic farming as a critical strategy to address the rising effects of climate change and as a way forward for future food security. We want to model possibilities that others can try as we continue to engage with the community in the village, the region and beyond. Our project is in Indonesia for Indonesia.

 Our teaching practices are transitioning back to forest garden production and integrated farming through permaculture and natural farming principles. We respect and combine traditional methods in all that we do.