Organic Life
Learning & growing
Organic farm
The organic farm includes the animal farm, the aquaponics, the medicinal farm, the productive raised beds and the orchids.
Organic foods
We offer Great Foods workshops at the Farm. from harvesting to preparing to cooking and feasting these are hands-on experiences that change us for the better.
Organic life - stories from the farm
We offer consultancies and workshops around Indonesia in practical ways to eat well and creative cooking and food preparation. Proceeds help support our community engagement projects.
Organic life
An organic farm is a set of integrated systems. It is not just the food we grow or the fruit we harvest. It is the variety – the infrastructure and what it is made from – the cost ratio’s, the water. It is also the methods used and the harnessing of natural cycles and systems with a touch of technology to help guide and produce. It is deep care of animals and plants and soil and all the processes that take pace in a production cycle. It is waste management and earth stewardship.
We are what we eat!
Farm-to-table would be ideal and we certainly aim at that on the farm for our guests. For people living in the city, it is often tempting to get take out and basically not think too much about what we are eating. Then, when we have dependant mouths to feed we start to feel the need to learn more about where our food comes from and what benefits our food has. Yet discovering some basic cooking, food use and nutrition skills is not part of the life book these days. We are here to help.
Organic Farming
The organic farm includes the animal farm, the aquaponics, the medicinal farm, the productive raised beds and the orchids. It also includes the worm farms, the cricket farm, the black soldier fly (BSF) farm and the compost processing centre. Organic farming is about a combination of growing strategies and practices that enhance the natural process that benefits production, health and the whole system. Composting and good soils, drainage and mulch, bedding and seed stock, rotation and natural pest controls are but some of the practices around organic farming. As with life, organic farming is a long term commitment and investment. It is not a short term cash crop approach. Establishing an organic farm is creating a solid foundation that matures with time. The longer it is established the less work is involved and the better it produces.
Chapters of organic farming
Animal Farm
The animal farm is an important part of the organic life at 5EyesFarm. We raise 4 species of fowl – Duck, Chicken, Quail and Goose. We raise them on hand made organic food from the farm made three times a day. These birds are free-range and have a wonderful environment that includes a pond, a river, shaded tree space, open space and several shelters. The large barn houses most of them at night. We raise them primarily for their eggs and occasionally for their meat.
Aquaponics
-Aquaponics is the magical system of growing plants and fish together and both help each other. This type of organic water farming is sustainable, water saving and improves food production and quality. Using aquaponics, we are developing a food security strategy for the future. Phase one is underway with Tilapia Nile and a range of cropping from water-crest to tomatoes to lettuce and a variety of experimental plantings.
Raised Beds
When we mix dry waste with compost and soil we are adding carbon into the mix and also because the dry waste is coarse it allows a good deal of oxygen and retains moisture far more than exposed soil. Such an environment (air, water, soil, compost, dry waste) is the staple for a healthy garden bed. It promotes earthworm activity and especially promotes the growth of good bacteria’s, fungi and microorganisms. These are all working the pile into good hummus for the future.
Insectarium
When we mix dry waste with compost and soil we are adding carbon into the mix and also because the dry waste is coarse it allows a good deal of oxygen and retains moisture far more than exposed soil. Such an environment (air, water, soil, compost, dry waste) is the staple for a healthy garden bed. It promotes earthworm activity and especially promotes the growth of good bacteria’s, fungi and microorganisms. These are all working the pile into good hummus for the future.
Organic gardening is not about just substituting toxic chemicals with less toxic ones, but about a whole different way of thinking and working. It is a conscious effort to cooperate with Nature in the creation of health and abundance for all.
Heide Hermary
The Essence of Organic Gardening
Organic farming includes the animals, the fish what they eat...
Organic farming is a method of using whatever nature and the systems and living things discard and reusing everything differently. Clippings and off cuts, trimmings and weeds become mulch or compost or food. There is no waste from waste here. It is one giant recycling project to create the best of healthy, dynamic and diverse foods.
Organic
Organic farming is about the health of the whole cycle of productive growing. Soil, water, seeds, rotation, natural pest management, compost making and a host of other elements come into play. At 5EyesFarm we grow all our food organically. Fruit, vegetables and herbs & spices. But we also raise free-range organic poultry and fresh-water fish. Each system we run, including making food for the animals on site, is designed for best practice in organic management.
Free-Range
The Ducks, Chickens, Geese and Quail have a big, safe home at 5EyesFam. They can swim, lounge, forage, and meander around both indoors and outside. They eat grubs, worms and snails along with their organically prepared, hand made 3 meals a day.
Banana planting
Recycled Irrigation
Organic life – learn more
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Introduction to organic gardening
A Green-Ed workshop
Learn the elements of organic gardening and prepare for your own project
Recent posts
Organic Life – stories from the farm
Organic gardening is not about just substituting toxic chemicals with less toxic ones, but about a whole different way of thinking and working. It is a conscious effort to cooperate with Nature in the creation of health and abundance for all.
Heide Hermary
The Essence of Organic Gardening
The 5! – Our focus and mission
The 5 things we do at 5EyesFarm are interrelated. The organic farming creates a canvas for Green-Ed learning. And the good food, the community engagement and sustainability practices come out of these.
New organic recycling: bio-convert green waste using insects to make food for the animals
Our work with raising freshwater fish and poultry is focusing on the food they eat. Food is the only input we aim to use. No supplements or lab chemicals at all. And by making the food organically we know what they eat, and we know what we eat. Recycle green...
Our food security and sustainability: Can we innovate for the future?
There are no simple solutions to food security, and there are many actors and industries associated with future food production, consumption and understanding. However, if we take climate change science seriously, even on average, we are facing the need to adapt, as...
Using plants for medicine is a great adventure full of possibilities
One of the wonderful things about being here is that growing a wide variety of food just happens almost by its self. Walking around the farm, we will come across various types of ginger coming out from underneath the roots of trees and sometimes in very tall crops by themselves.