My friends and I have a small project: to build an informal school and public library in a rural area on the outskirts of Karawang. The site is in Batujaya Village, Batujaya District, Karawang Regency. Children and visitors from the surrounding area can read various books and magazines, do some sports activities, play in the…
Spinach and water spinach are easy-to-grow vegetables. Sometimes, wild-grown spinach and water spinach are even more fertile than those we plant. Nevertheless, it is still better to plant spinach and water spinach to optimize the results. Here are the tips: Spinach and water spinach can generally be harvested within one month. They are suitable for…
Can you guess what kind of banana for these photos? The photo on the left is of Barangan bananas. I bought the seedlings from a certified supplier in Medan, North Sumatra, in the form of tissue culture seedlings. I purchased 100 seedlings shipped in a styrofoam box using inter-island bus delivery services. The photo on…
A few years ago, I was captivated by Stieg Larsson’s novel “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” which narrates the intriguing partnership between journalist Michael Blomkvist and a hacker named Lisbeth Salander, as they unravel a mystery together. However, what truly resonated with me wasn’t the plot’s core mystery but rather a detail about Blomkvist’s…
When playing and staying at Zeze Zahra’s cabin home in Batujaya Karawang, Indonesia, I usually spend more time outdoors, including in the area where chickens, ducks, geese, and swans are raised. In this area, there are many trees such as bitter beans, coconuts, mangoes, guavas, and sapodillas. When it’s hot, I usually take shelter under…
One of the highest costs for raising chickens and fish is feed. Without quality feed, the growth of livestock will be stunted, but relying on manufactured feed can be quite expensive. If not managed properly, dependence on manufactured feed can cause losses for livestock businesses, as the cost of feed is not balanced with sales….
Visiting Zeze Zahra’s cabin house, checking on the construction of a simple hut on the side of the rice fields beside a sapodilla tree. The hut will be used for relaxing while watching the ducks/chickens/goats and also for working in the rice field area that has been transformed into farming land. The plan is also…
KUB chicken is a new breed of village chicken resulting from genetic selection by the research team at the Indonesian Agency for Agricultural Research and Development (Badan Penelitian dan Pengembangan Pertanian, Balitbangtan). This new breed of chicken is called the ayam Kampung Unggul Balitbangtan (Balitbangtan Superior Village Chicken), abbreviated as KUB chicken. Zeze Zahra started…
A few days ago, while visiting a banana plantation and checking the goat pen for Mr. Niman, the farmer of the banana plantation, I went to the banks of the Citarum river on the opposite side of Mr. Niman’s house. The Citarum river is one of the largest rivers in West Java and its position…
Last weekend, I harvested some “Ambon” bananas in front of Zeze Zahra’s cabin house. In addition to the Ambon bananas, there were also 2 bunches of Morosebo (Cavendish Dwarf) bananas that were ripe enough, but I didn’t harvest them immediately because I was afraid that we wouldn’t be able to consume them all at once….