When I was living in a suburban house I just dug down all the food scraps near the hedge. It works very well and makes complete logistical sense. Imagine people still throwing out valuable food scraps in the garbage so it can be driven away in a garbage truck and burned or something.... insanity is real.

The super universal mega healthy hummus recipe.

500 grams cooked chickpeas
Garlic optional
50 grams tahini (reduce even more to become even healthier or just grind up your own sesame seeds). If your tahini contains salt, then you might not need to add salt later).
1 lemon fresh juice 2-3 limes. Or even more if you like it limey.
salt 2-4 grams. The less salt the healthier.

We grow and sell this plant at Lek & Greg Vegan Camp.

You need to boil it for 20 minutes to remove the cyanide. Please don't eat the chaya raw.

Check out our sister site InLi Kasat Farm for more info about health benefits and spray dried chaya powder.

It can be challenging to find good bamboo toothbrushes in Thailand with good bristles. Most of the bristles are made of nylon.

Here are some potential links:

Ships from the us which makes the shipping expensive: https://www.brushwithbamboo.com/

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Auchalee rice: 093-3050263 (good brown rice for a resonable price).

Mixed rice "image" (price unknown).

This is Northern Thailand, Li, Lamphun, also known as longan land. The bamboo here is not used as construction material although it should. The bamboo is primarily used to support longan trees. I intend to change that. The most difficult part about using bamboo, is bamboo preservation. There are many methods to proof or preserve:

We have the bat cave nearby the Vegan Camp near the white robed monk temple.

Bat cave:

White robed monk temple main attraction in March:

About 25 km from Lek & Greg Vegan Camp, you will find the entrance to the Mae Ping National Park. From the entrance you will have another 25 km to the Koh Luang Waterfall (Nam Tok Koh Luang). The waterfall is among the most beautiful waterfalls in Thailand.

People ask when the smoke season the dry season or even the burning season will start. All these three are the same, and they are quite bad for air quality. I would say it usually starts after a couple of months without rain. So in 2019 it already started in December or so and will probably last until we get some good storms in 2020, maybe mid April 2020. But who konws, nature is hard to predict and we get what we sow.