Munene, the journey...

Vermiculture in progress We left for Chakra's house at 10am. Chakra has a house close to Permana Cottage. He told us stories of his experiences, and his inventions. He was once chased by people in Aceh after he made them a stove. We met this guy he calls Tarzan that was apparently raised by dogs in the forest. Tarzan can listen to honey bees and know whether they are agitated or not. Tarzan made us some honey bee salad. He makes use of what he calls 'appropriate technology' Built a kiln/oven which dries rice in 1 hour. (superdryer) Customized a diesel engine to use hydrogen for doing portable rice mills Moves from village to village and mills rice for the farmers: 100k of unmilled rice produces 65kg of brown rice and 45kg of white rice Permaculture: using wastes from one food process to feed into another process Using smoke from burnt rice husks to smoke bamboo which helps to preserve Using ashes from the bu...