Snails Eating Vegetables In The Farm.

This incident occurred recently in my small farm. I just planted the seeds of vegetables "mustard greens, pakcoy, and swamp cabbage" in these two weeks. The growth of vegetable babies was well, but some leaves were damaged and I have a thought that it was caused by caterpillars because of my experienced before, every damages to the leaves is caused by caterpillars. Without long thinking again, I decided to use a low level pesticide toxic on tomorrow morning to kill the caterpillars.

Actually, I am an organic vegetables farmer and I have an opinion if uses a toxic of pesticide in low level and spraying it with thin thin on the leaves and uses that in early two weeks after planting and used only once for the crops that has the age of 30 days for harvesting season, it would not be affecting the quality result of organic vegetables itself as long as in the grow period, the fertilization of vegetables only uses manure fertilizer, otherwise do not chemical fertilizer.

Fortunately, my son, Kusuma, checked it again in the farm, looked for the caterpillars, he did not find any caterpillars there, on the leaves, even inside of the ground that usually in there the caterpillars hiding, he didn't find it. Because we planted our vegetables in the poly bags, my son decided to shift every poly bag to look what there at under or beside of poly bags was, and BooM....he found all of the snails was hiding on there, Wow..ten until fifteen was hiding and stay in below and beside of poly bags.

He found also, a snail was eating the leaves of mustard greens and that is a proved and made sure us that the snails eating the leaves of vegetables too and its before we never knew it. Finally, the damages of the leaves issues have been resolved. I did not use a toxic of pesticide in its tomorrow morning, I just watered the crops and made a plan to clean and take all of snails from every poly bags we had in the afternoon.

This is a learning for me that to be an organic farmer have to carefully to look every case that happen, so would not be make a mistake when take care the organic crops.

Love and compassion

Santosa Laksana.

Enhancing of my life by making new ideas.

The universe has forced me to do the right things in my life and prevented me from no benefit things that I was doing and I very thanks for that.

My these ideas was resulted from what I experienced before that is my failures when I sold the harvest of vegetable yields to the local market. The idea is, I should manage in the correct way either about my guest house and my farm simultaneously in one day every day. I should use every existing resources to increase the number of visitors to guest house by making an event or making various services that fulfill the wishes of the guests meanwhile I work on farm.

Without realized, I have had a new power to deal with my current situation, I can work diligently on the farm while also making marketing news for guest house along with the preparation of the services that I would invent later. At this time I am starting the new ideas that started from the beginning, I started planting three kinds of vegetables "mustard greens, pakcoy, and swamp cabbage" and I will add again more in the future with various vegetables.

It's before, I couldn't do this thing because I had to plant, nursery, and sell it. I did not have a time to take care the guest house, do marketing, and create something new like now, e.g, creating healthy food menus, preparing firewood for traditional hot bath, guiding tourists to tour the villages, and the last is writing articles about my activities in guest houses and in the garden. I can do all these things now and tasting my vegetable yields because I am not selling it again.

If calculated from I am writing now, the age of my plants is already two weeks old and like a newborn baby, so cute and beautiful. To fulfill our daily lives, I am planting my vegetable with several stages and the distance for planting time is 7 days per 100 poly bags, so that I can harvest the vegetables every day and so on.

When all are already grown, I can serve foreign tourists or local tourists to make breakfast, lunch, and dinner use vegetables from the garden. My son, Kusuma, has learned how to make healthy foods for the guest use fresh vegetables and will create the various kinds of menus and all in IDR Ten Thousand for vegetarian foods and IDR Fifteen Thousand with additions of chicken meat, cow meat or fish meat. Hmmmmm....soo yummmmmy.

Please come to my village and stay in my Guest house. Just knowing the somewhere of Indonesia, the corner of Indonesia, and the one of lifestyle in Indonesia. Please for coming and thanks and have a nice day!

Love and compassion.
Santosa Laksana

Let's share a moment

My week in Santosa's house is now finished. I need to continue my travel and discover other people. But this week was very rich in sharing. It's the thing I'm searching in my journey, share little moments, when people bring me in a place just to take a tea, to see a beautiful landscape, or when they cook for me. And I found what I wanted here. 

Santosa showed me many places around, and was very happy when I met new people like his brother. With his son, Kusuma, we shared really good moments in the kitchen ! He is very talented, he likes cooking and I showed him 3 recipes from France. He cooked me very good dishes every day. I ate new things, different tastes, and we just made a real exchange of our two cultures. I will always remember him enjoying the cake !

They are really good people who want to show you what it is to live in Indonesia and will do a lot of things for you. We talked a lot about life and how to be confident. Hope they will apply my little advises. With Santosa's brother we also had a discussion about tourism in little villages in Indonesia. They really want to see more tourists, they want to show them real life, also be kind and just share. Really simple exchange. So if you're thing is sharing, don't hesitate !

Fanny, Kusuma, and Santosa.

Written by Fanny Clm.

Website: https://hudrume-voyage.com/

Discovering Wonosari area with Fanny

Hi, my name is Fanny, I'm from France and I'm travelling all around Asia for six months. I arrived in Wonosari on the 30/09/18 after discovered Jogjakarta department. I chose to come in Santosa's village because I wanted a real experience of the Indonesian life. I wanted to know more about every day life, what did they eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner, what did they do for free time, habits and everything. After a long trip by train from Yogya, Santosa picked me up at Kepanjen train station and drove me with motorbike to his house. Here I met his son, Kusuma. After they let me know that they are learning English by themselves, and I'm very impressed, they speak very well !
I took a little time to rest and admire the view, directly on the mountains and the village, really beautiful. They offered me dinner, and what a pleasure to eat something different and not again nasi goreng ! Kusuma cooked me rice, vegetables and tofu, and I'm very thankful they cared about my vegetarian and gluten free diet. We talked about life for two hours, differences between France and Indonesia, life here and also a little of psychology, good conversation before to fall asleep.

The first morning, Santosa brought me for a long walk around the village in the forest. We crossed several villages and stopped to a friend house. Here I discovered their little farm and typical Indonesian house, said "hi" to a goat, and shared a good moment with new people. They also cooked me food I didn't know like fried tempeh, very good! We left the house with the arms full of gifts! After this expedition, our legs were a little shaking ! But I have a lot a free time to rest. Sure this night I slept very well.

The second day, even if our legs were painful we went again for a walk in the morning. We crossed other villages, and don't be choked if you come to small cities here because a lot of indonesian took me in photos and were very surprises to see a tourist in this area. We walked next to a school and all schoolchildren looked at me with big round eyes and were happy to say hello to me.

Last day of outside adventures, let's go for a big journey with the motorbike. We began with a waterfall, "coban Baung ". Really calm and nice place to see. After we went to Santosa's brother house, shared a tea with everyone and talk about Indonesian life. Then, we took the motorbike to go to a farm, and to another waterfall. Big trip because we didn't know the road but really nice. After that, Santosa's brother wanted to show me the springs, and told me a little more about habits of people with spring water and forest. We ate good food there and again took photos with people. 

From my arrival to now, I shared a lot of good moments with all these kind people. They really care about people and want tourists see more of this part of Indonesia. 

Written by Fanny Clm.

Website: https://hudrume-voyage.com/

Zita trip sightseeing around the villages.

This is the second experienced, I hosted the guests from Europe. The first is from London and now is from Hungary, she is Zita Zeber. Very smart and an modest, gracious, courteous, kind, and pleasant woman that has removed my worried if I would disappoint her because my guest house is very simple and haven't fully ready yet to serve the guest. But she said don't worry, everything is okay and I like your place. That's made me happy and my worried become disappeared.

And the next day, she asked me to guided her sightseeing around the villages, and I very pleasured to did that. I guided her to waterfall, the place is very nice to relax. We took some pictures there, relax, and took a time for a moment to meditation on the top of stone. I looked she is very passionate to finish her meditation and I am done first.

The next, we went to small water spring, the water is very clean and can be drunk directly, the taste is very fresh. I would frankly for this, the place is not too beautiful, just water spring in the open place at the corner of the big stone, but we enjoyed the journey. Breathing in and breathing out.

The lunch time was come, we decided to had our lunch on Keraton. The ancient place for ancient Javanese that now already blended with 5 religion which has been stood there. Konfucius, muslim, hindu, and Catholic or Christian, and the last the prime that are animism and dynamism of javanese culture, it is called of Kejawen cultures.

The last of my story is, we went home with laugh and smile enjoyed our journey through another road across the woods. I hope the next time I will guide you to sightsee the village around my property. Still many. See you.

Coban Baung waterfall	Time to lunch	keraton
Pine trees	Zita in woods	Go home

Please visit my property in a village of Wonosari JL. Sumber manggis RT07/RW04, Gunung Kawi, East Java, Indonesia. GProS Farmer on google maps.






Love universe.
Santosa Laksana

Planting Strawberry and About Me.

Planting strawberry and the way of God.

I had a very bad experience recently, I couldn't sell my yield on local market. I planted spring onions that actually growth well. But, with no reason, the local market decreased their purchased to my product, so, I didn't have enough revenue from my farm. And the worsted is, they stop their bought at all with no reason also, although, I could serve them well and from the best of my harvest. I have a thought there are someone that envy to see my succeed and used a racism and religion way to beat me. I am a minority here.

Because I have been experiencing it for years until now precisely are 21 years. Someone was gave me an offer to work what they wanted like giving an advice to help me in order to how I become succeed. Yes, I very struggled to do that, and I am succeed. But, suddenly, all people that engaged or involved a business with me was changed their direction, and that were the things that I couldn't following it. And then they stopped all business with me with no reason again. This thing always happened to me again and again until now.

I started knowing and believe that if I repeat again to believe and follow someone advice, be sure, I would falling down again. Today, with largest faith to God, I will not beg support to everyone again except I really know and recognize that the someone is truly have the honest, sincere and responsible nature.

I am managing my own guest house the heritage of may parents. To survive, I am very depending from the yield of my farm. Now, I have to starting from early again. My management is distracted because this problem. This is need a lot of patience to make everything back to normal. I pray everyday, I ask a miracle from God and deities, God, please give me a miracle for overcoming my problem now.

Maybe, this is the way of God. I am starting planting strawberry and started from scratch. I focus on what I do now and I really avoid all people that ever has disappointed me. And slowly but surely has appeared the positive thought that I never realized before. I feel peace, I can thinking about how to develop my guest house, and finally, my direction of life is totally changed. I am on the journey to build my own strawberry guest house with kinship system for my guests. Voluntary donation system for payment. Doesn't it look great?

Now, I do not lose my dream, instead I have more big dream and this is need a God hand to realize it. God, please give me your miracle so that I can realize my dream.Thank you God.

Santosa Laksana

How Do I Think To Be A Successful Farmer?

My eyes and heart began to wide opened, that, to be a successful farmer it is not as easy as imagined. A lot of hidden knowledges and problems which have to be faced. Learn to become a successful farmer that who can enjoying his life in peace. A farmer who has an inner and physical satisfaction. Learn to look-out the hidden knowledges as well as hidden problems. All of those are already seen clearly in my mind.

I began to find my way to solidify my nature and behaviour as a farmer. If you are a crops lover or someone who are just starting your own garden, do not hesitate to follow these insights I found.

Centering your concentration on what you are planting.
Remove all you worries. Focus on producing the best crops you are having. Don't worry about the market, failures or anything. You would find your own markets and your own new insights automatically when you have already reached the best harvest yield of you. Do not stop when you got failures, continue and learn from there. Don't ever start to think to process your crops into processed products, just keep focus on your crops to thinking about how to care well, fertilization well and how to make a good irrigation. The three acts that would enhance your fortune and your farming knowledge automatically.

Navigate your future on the right track.
When you have a superior product of organic crops, whether it is tomato, potato, chili, mustard green, cabbage, onion, garlic, or organic fruits, you would find your own environment, once again "Automatically." A healthy society or environment which you would be able to offering and introducing your organic farming products. You need to know, organic agricultural products have fresher taste than the non-organic. I do not know about the nutrition content value, but I believe that organic plant products are healthier if we consume them.

Creating your own self-confidence.
Many people wrongly make decisions in processing and managing their farm management. They are always looking for the buyers with the highest price for their products. In fact, to become a successful farmer is not like that. It does not have to find a buyer that offering at the highest price. But find a bonafide buyers that support you to maintain and improve the income of your family. Avoid unhealthy competition by not looking for a buyer that offering at a higher price. Keep concentrate into your family life. Think about the happiness of your family, you will find the right way to manage your farm automatically.

Keep the faith your farm will grow well.
Never stop to research the needs of your market.  Everything is constantly changing. Expand your insights! See yourself, to be a farmer, it takes a lot of technical knowledge, management, and psychology, right? A farmer must have a high empathy to keep their plants, sense of care and affection. The market doesn't have what you have. You will always face the buyers, only buyers! Maintain your insight to deal with the market psychology changes.

Never postpone because you always need the time.
An experienced and succeed farmer always has the nature of joyful, happy, wise, calm, patient, persevering, diligent, persistent, and intelligent. But, did you know, how long did he get those qualities? To gain those natures, a successful farmer can pass through it in the times of 10, even 20 years. Do not ever postpone your work plan! Always remember, how long have you raised the money to buy and add your farm equipments? How long have you learned marketing and eventually getting to know your own markets? How long have you set up or built your farm? How long have you learned about your mistakes? And the last, how long of your journey for you will have become established.*

I also think about how to build personal quality which support the farmer works and lives. Below are the thing are always be my question.

1. Do I already have a strong and good work ethic?
2. Have I worked diligently and persistently?
3. Do I committed to what I do?
4.  Do I have the patience to listen, accept, and consider, when someone has different opinions and gives me hints?
5.  Do I carefully, examining, and talking about it with people associated with me, like family, when I receive and will use that advice?
6. Will I always maintain organic markets and organic products?
7.  How can I adjust myself to work on the farm and my other activities?

And there are many other questions that if I write here, it will be a book and not an article.  If you are interesting and wants to discuss deeply, please gives your feedback in the comments column, I will definitely answer it.

Let us share our experiences about the good things, build a healthy and useful life through the noble works. Greetings and thank you for visiting my blog.

Author.
Santosa Laksana

Overcoming Boredom When Farming.

Problems are always come unexpectedly, and I have just experienced it. Unfortunately I couldn't say all of my issues here, but I have resolved that problems through hard effort and the impact to me is that I am a bit frustrated, chaotic programs or delayed, chaotic financial, a loss of purpose, and the last is a high level boredom.

For three days I had to overcome one by one the impact of the problems I faced. Spirit? Yes, I had to keep to pumping my spirits while working on the farm. I had to work, I had to keep and take a good care to my plants. This is the only one way that is right for me and finally my spirit gradually began to rise.

The chaotic programs or delayed has resolved through discussed with my son. We both recalled, how our way in the days of yesterday. We did not record our regular activities. We only live alone. Then when we were creating a work activity, at the same time we would make that activity would be to be our daily life habits. When an unexpected situation emerged, our living habits could change and would be hard to bring back if we couldn't remember how our behaviour yesterday. I am suspecting or thinking negatively about this because this situation could be just happened, that, might be there are people who do not support us trying to change our good habits into bad habits. For example; Have the habits like likes complaining, sad, easy to despair, disappointed, angry, etc.

But, by always pray to the Buddhas and the Goddess Gods, I finally found an insight into how to deal with this mess. Finally, chaotic programs or delayed could be re-established slowly.

About chaotic financial.
Finally, I could also handle it. My friend Joanie McMahon lent me some money to support my farm until it works, so I can still use her money until I could repay it. Financial problems could be solved. I do not know how Gods work but He has sent to me an Angel for rescued me. God bless you all.

Losing my goal!
To resolve this problem. I had to repeat reading a book that I've already read "Farmer and His Traits." This is really important for me to do it because if I work as a farmer but do not have the soul as a farmer, I would not be able to complete my job as a farmer that is very complicated. I read again, studied again, and rehearsed one by one and finally my soul came back again and my goal is clear again. It's look simple but it's not as it is, it's not simple.

And the last one is incredible boredom.
I really bored. My son really bored and I am sad because he is the only one who helps all of my work. Starting from farming, managing hotel, and taking care of the place we pray everyday "Gods' Altar." When boredom arises, there a feeling inferiority or self-disbelief and confusion. I do not know what to do. And, suddenly popped into my mind, "why you do not take some photos about you on the farm and write down all your recent experiences." Well ..! Why I do not do that?

Here is my last story.
I took my pictures on the farm and video of my son that was studying, he looks tired and bored, but, finally he could smile and even laugh again. Our final issue was resolved. May the Buddhas and the Goddess Gods protect both of us always. God bless you.

I was watering shallots seeds	Trying to be confident	Trying to have fun
The seeds are starting to grow	Planting seeds outdoors	My son was studying

Using Umbrella Hat DIM "Do it Myself" Working at The Farm With Rain.

My joy working in the farm.

Work couldn't be delayed, my schedule for planting the seeds of shallot already done, I must preparing a new field for transplanting young shallots which should be finished in 45 days. I should not be late to finish it.

When I was doing my work on the farm to weed the weeds suddenly the rain came, so would stop my activity, whereas I couldn't stop to set up the new transplantation place that must finish on time. Has crossed on my mind. How I can continue my work whereas my farmer hat is too small to block the rain. And then...BooM..! I remember, I have an umbrella which is already broken, I was thinking that I gonna could use it and putting it on the top of my farmer hat. But, how?

Crossed my mind again, cut the umbrella handle and use the top of umbrella to be combined with your farmer's hat. Yes, no longer thinking, I did what was crossing in my mind. I cut the umbrella holder and then I placed the top of umbrella and tied it with a small wire. Done. Finally, I can continue my work without worry the rain. I have a farmer's umbrella hat.

Below is how I made it "Farmer's umbrella hat."

Cut the umbrella handle.

Cut the umbrella handle.	Put it like this.	Bind into one with wire.
Do not forget to enter the remaining pieces like this.	Farmer's umbrella hat already can be used.	Works with a smile despite the rain.

The video about me.

Author. 
Santosa Laksana

Relax and Joyful in Our Hotel.

We are developing my farm in my hotel. We are growing shallots to produce nice shallots because the weather and resources is fit for our purpose which we live in the Kawi mountain area, a spiritual tourism village.I am having great intention to attract foreign tourist visitors to our hotel like from US and Europe.

We are having 12 bedrooms for 5 and 3 persons.  Our place is very appropriate for you who have intention to relax, meditation, writing if you as an author or long stay in Indonesia. My place is the right place for you.

My hotel rooms.

About the bedroom of my hostel.

The bedrooms is equipped with sponge mattress, blanket, pillow, and one cupboard. The doors and the window are made of frosted glass so the light of the sun can be freely enter to the room. We have two kinds of rooms. The rooms for 5 peoples and 3 peoples. The bathrooms is on outside and we prepare for you hot bath traditional boiled with woods.

Our room faces to the forest scenery. When the sky is bright you can see directly the green colour of the mountain which very clean and fresh. Enjoying the light breeze by sitting in the front of the room to enjoy the atmosphere of the mountains and listen the birds chirp in the morning as the squirrels jumping on the trees. Many peoples utilize this moment to clear his/her psyche and mind, let go of tiredness and problems that accumulate and then alter it with positive thoughts and feelings to get the serenely aura.

I hope individually, hopefully you can come and feel the freshness and relaxation here. Getting the positive atmospheres for your happiness. Thank you for stopping by on my blog. I really hope you choose my hotel to long stay or just stopping by, We are will always ready to serve you. God bless.

Owner.
Santosa Laksana

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Besides cheapest, you can cook your favorite food by yourself in the kitchen of hotel prepared special for you. Our hotel accepts a voluntary or donation payment system. Cheap Hotel in Indonesia. Please contact us directly by phone or via WhatsApp "GProS Farmer Group" here: 085731231317 to get information directly from us. Or visit on our google website for getting the direction:
http://gprosfarm.business.site/  I  will pick you up when you come to our place.

Our place is a perfect place to vacation with your family or your spouse, because, besides for relaxing, at first our hotel is a place for people to practice spiritual power and meditation. For that we always keeping the peace, honesty and sincerity to build strong integrity in our service. Please feel free visiting our place to assist us in performing social services that had been established by our parents since we were born.


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Santosa Laksana

GProS Farmer, Hotel and Restaurant.

Come and stay up to you how long you will stay to strengthen your spiritual power at a ritual tourism village in Kawi Mountain. Hotel with voluntary system payment. Available a chicken nugget fried rice, fish nugget fried rice, fried rice - spice chicken wings. The relax place for searching a new idea for your goal, your business or your worthy life.

We accept a voluntary payment system at our hotel. You would not worry about how much you will spend your money, just give how much you thought deserve, We are only need your sincerity. We will happy if you happy, we will happy if you feel healthy in this our hotel. Please come and call me or whatsapp here 085731231317, so that I can pick you up to guide you.

We have a hot water bath traditionally. RP. 3000 for once bath.
Fried Rice " fish and chicken nugget " RP. 15000
Indonesian coffee RP. 2000
Hot or Cold Tea RP. 2000

Please for coming..!