Moonriver Lodge, Sigar Highlands
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More on Bhaskar Save
Watch the Tribute to Bhaskar Save on Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6z6-GD2POY
His Ghandiji’s 5 principles:
1) Harmonious coexistence for mutual benefit : Do not use artificial means to kill microorganisms
2) Nothing borne out of Mother Earth is a waste
3) Farming is not man’s business. It is his moral duty.
4) All is Nature’s will.We are mere labourers.Our rights are limited.Extract only as per needs.
5) Do not hurry. Nature herself does not.Land is a living being. Converse with your farm.
Bhaskar Save – India’s Fukuoka
Bhaskar Save(pronounced Saa-vay) has seized our attention with his vision of natural farming. Acclaimed as “Gandhi of Natural Farming“, he has seven decades of personal experience and his farm, Kalpavruksha, is a veritable food forest. Masanobu Fukuoka (another one of our respected pioneers) hailed it ” the best in the worldatural farming.
He reminds us about the simple and concise introduction to the philosophy and practice of natural farming with a sign from the gate to his 14 acre farm that says,
“Cooperation is the fundamental Law of Nature”
His 4 fundamental principles of natural farming reinforces and reminds us of our mission in Moonriver Lodge ie
1) All living creatures have an equal right to live i.e. farming must be non violent.
2) Everything in Nature is useful and serves a purpose in the Web of Life
3) Farming is a dharma, a sacred path of serving Nature and fellow creatures; it MUST NOT be a dhandha or money-oriented business.
4) The principle of perenniall fertility regeneration – humans have a right to only the fruits and seed of the crops we grow that constitutes 5%-15% of the plant biomass yield. The balance 85%-95% of the biomass, the crop residue, must go back to the soil to renew fertility as mulch or manure.
Very inspiring and one of the most outstanding personalities in the organic world.
3Days 2Nights at Moonriver Lodge CNY Package
Check-in date (4th day CNY) : 26 Jan 2012 (12oo-2200 hrs)
Check-out date : 28 Jan 2012 (1200 hrs) (Please note half day rate applies for late check out)
Package Rate : RM340/pax) Rm280/pax) Meal Arrangement : 2 Breakfast/ 2 Lunch /2 Tea /2 Dinner
Activities Arrangement : Day 1 – MRL Orientation Trail (45mins-1 hr) – Water-Valley Trek to inhouse waterfall ( 45mins- 1hr)
Day 2 – Gardening for Food Programme – Half Day Visit to Terra Organic Farm
Day 3 – Free & easy, Check out
The Garden as a Learning Opportunity
Gardening creates many opportunities for discovery and learning.
You can explore this with your children as a home-based activity or together with the school curriculum.
Some experiences with home gardening are: – Even a small harvest eg a handful of chillis, brings joy to the child. – Children enjoy being responsible and important.
If you involve them as food producers, you can count on them to help maintain the garden. – Gardening work and various garden-based activities provide opportunities for fun and learning among child and parent eg garden crafts, seed storage, doing a vegetable calendar etc. etc.
At Moonriver Lodge, the Gardening for Food Programme, is a simple introduction to basic gardening and learning where your food comes from. A chance to get those pretty hands dirty as you play with the soil and gently transplant young plants to the garden beds you had freshly and painstakingly prepared.
Of course, the reward of harvesting of vegetables and fruits is indeed satisfying.
The satisfaction factor doubles up when you even get to EAT the fruits of your labour or your personal harvest!
In Moonriver Lodge
Boo!! It’s Hallowe’en!
Goblins on the doorstep,
Phantoms in the air,
Owls on witches’ gateposts
Giving stare for stare,
Cats on flying broomsticks,
Bats against the moon
Stirrings round of fate-cakes
with a solemn spoon,
Whirling apple parings
Figures draped in sheets
Dodging, disappearing,
up and down the streets,
Jack-o-Lanterns grinning
Shadows on a screen,
Shrieks and starts and laughter-
This is Hallowe’en!
- Dorothy Brown Thompson -
Introducing our latest activity at Moonriver Lodge
Enjoy an afternoon farm tour to visit your choice of an Organic Farm OR a Vegetable/Fruit Commercial Farm.
Learn about their practices in place and you can also purchase fresh veggies from them.
End your tour with a tea at their farm or back at the Lodge.
Price includes transfer and guide.
This programme is also included in the November promotion packages.
From ‘generation to generation’
‘Observing children who are healthy, tranquil, innocent, sensitive, full of love and joy, ready to help
others –
I am forced to reflect upon the amount of human energy wasted because of an ancient error
and great sin that disseminated injustice to the very roots of mankind. It is the adult who produces in
the child, his incapacities, his confusion, and his rebellion. It is the adult who shatters the character
of the child and deprives it of its vital impulses. And more than that it is the adult who affects to
correct the errors, the psychological deviations, and the lapses in character that he himself has
produced in the child. So we find ourselves in a labyrinth without an exit.
Until the adults consciously face their errors and correct them, they will find themselves in a forest of
insoluble problems. And children, becoming in their turn adults, will be victims of the same error,
transmitting, it from generation to generation.’
‘the first step in the integral resolution of the problem of education must not, therefore, be taken toward the child, but toward the adult educator. He must
change his moral attitudes. He must divest himself of many preconceptions.’
Maria Montessori ‘The Child in the Family’
‘With the support of the prepared adult, the child with his unlimited possibilities can be the
transformer of humanity, just as he is its creator. The child brings us great hope and a new vision.’
Montessori, Maria. (1949) The Absorbent Mind Clio Press Oxford England 1988 page 60
Introducing our Waterfall Garden
“Gardens are valued as places for reflection and for peace, places where we can be refreshed and nourished by nature” – Helen Cushing (Beyond Organics, 2005; 28)
At Moonriver Lodge we love to create gardens and especially enjoy watching a plant grow from seed or a fruit forming in our fruit trees.
