We are starting to plant
The Organic Farm
One of the core pillars of conscious living at the Kechara Forest Retreat is to embrace and live in harmony with nature. We wish to achieve this more and more and as much as possible. Visitors and residents are invited to dive into the breathtaking abundance of our earth through green programmes held all year round, and to partake of the bounteous harvest from our organic farm and herb gardens.
We are attempting to plant some fresh vegetables and so far the results are promising. Today I was presented with our own homegrown lettuce and I must say it was delicious. I had three bowls of it and there were plenty more! Thank you! We are attempting to experiment, perfect as we go along and become better at planting a variety of vegetables. If we can grow more of our vegetables to consume, that would be wonderful. We can have natural pesticide free vegetables and help to defray growing food prices. It’s very rewarding to eat what we grow. Being vegetarian, most of my food comes from vegetables. I am looking forward to this very much as well as many others.
Tsem Rinpoche
Organic Farm
Lettuce growing in Kechara Forest Retreat by our organic green team here in Kechara Forest Retreat. The lettuce gave us some difficulties in the past, but we are getting better at it now.
Radish at Kechara Forest Retreat. This is our first attempt.
Watermelon growing in Kechara Forest Retreat. Our first attempt at this also. We do not wish to use any pesticides.
Carrots
Green lettuce
Tomatoes
Lettuce offered to me by the Kechara Forest Retreat Green Team. So nice. I had these today and they were delicious. We are going to grow more now that our experiment with lettuce growing is a success!
Pastor Chia holds our first radish that grew on Kechara Forest Retreat's organic farm! Many more will grow too
Getting There
The Kechara Forest Retreat is located in Chamang, Bentong, approximately 75km north east of the capital city of Kuala Lumpur. We are just over an hour’s drive from Kuala Lumpur, a 10-minute drive from the nearest town of Bentong, and a 5-minute drive from the famous Chamang Waterfalls.
The Kechara Forest Retreat
Lot 3189, Jalan Chamang,
Bentong,
Malaysia
Some glimpses of Kechara Forest Retreat here and for more information.
Our beautiful 4,000 square foot aviary for rescued birds.
We will perfect the growing of vegetables.
We have a beautiful fish pond at Kechara Forest Retreat (KFR).
Many come here to meditate and enjoy the green serenity.
A stupa consecrates Kechara Forest Retreat that all who come will have peace, love, healing and quiet wisdom.
Guest quarters in KFR
While we are here in KFR, we can light a candle for someone we love and wish abundant blessings and peace in their lives. Many come to offer candles on their birthday, wedding anniversaries, bereavement anniversaries and others special days. We believe on special days, it is good to give rather than to receive.
Spectacular mists in the mornings here in Kechara Forest Retreat. May all have peace and happiness.
Kechara Forest Retreat
We have wonderful rescued birds we take care of in Kechara Forest Retreat. They receive fresh vegetables along with seeds daily and plenty of space to fly and enjoy fresh air. To adopt a bird or contribute to their upkeep in your compassion please click on the image for more information.
For more interesting topics:
- Inner Peace Retreat
- Love Birds at Kechara Forest Retreat
- The Green Team at Work!
- Creating Conscious Communities
- Visitors from Seremban Came To Make Offerings
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It simply amazing to have a organic gardening in a spiritual organization. I do feel great to have a wonderful teacher who do have something in mind that always benefit others. Utilizing the soil and teach and invited visitors and residence to dive into the breathtaking abundance of our earth through green programmes held all year round, and to partake of the bounteous harvest from our organic farm and herb gardens.
Absolutely a wonderful and encouraging programmes to participate, has small garden are great ways to provided local food and help the environment satay healthy.
We are so fortunate to have Kechara Forest Retreat,for the peace, love, green serenity, candle light offering and the most amazing with the Kechara Forest Retreat Organic Farms.
The nurture of greens and environmental care is all in Kechara Forest Retreat with breeze air and a holistic place to retreat. A place which fulls of bless and benefits to all residents and visitors
Thank you very much and deeply appreciate to the Kechara Forest Retreat Green Teams for all the effort and compassionate to gives the best nutritious to all.
“Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful and most noble employment of man.” – George Washington
“Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field” – President Dwight D. Eisenhower
I’ve hardly ever met anyone in my corporate and social life in the modern concrete city that finds farming appealing, specially not among the younger generation. We find plenty of people who say they love nature and how amazingly beautiful nature is when they go on holidays. Who likes and enjoys the beautiful photos of nature, of harvest, of green on their computers, tablets and mobile phones. But to find people who truly embrace the beauty and appreciate what nature can provides is rare.
With living space growing vertical, most of the future generation in developed and developing countries may never get a chance to touch soil unless they visit a farm. I remembered when I first went to Australia, they had this farm event in the city and children and adults alike were amazed to see chickens and ducks. I grew up in a small town and almost everyone in the neighborhood have chickens, ducks or geese. I thought it was a bizarre sight at that time watching these people being so amazed seeing something as common as chicken. I traveled round the world since and it opened my eyes to a lot of things.
It would not surprise me if a lot of people actually do not know how vegetables are grown and what fruit trees look like. To be able to have the land and the opportunity to farm is a privilege. Those who still own landed property and have garden space should not missed out on gardening and even some home farming. In the future to come, home farming may just be the only sustainable way to feed the world.
At Kechara Forest Retreat, the green team members are privileged individuals tasked to take care of our beautiful landscape and farm for our community. This is an incredibly gigantic task. It requires a lot of discipline, commitment, care, hard work, dedication, patience, tenacity, humility, integrity and understanding to work with nature. The amount of hard work put in is seldom seen and lacks appreciation from those who enjoyed the results. Farming is painful work but noble and worthwhile for nature is compassionate and when it rewards, it doesn’t hold back.
May we inspire green living from Kechara Forest Retreat, gives novelty to farming and grow towards a conscious community.
现在人的生活都很忙，生活的节奏紧张压力大，为了自己的事业打拼也没有时间去接触大自然，
感恩仁波切打造了绿色天堂克切拉禅修林，让我们繁忙的城市人都机会接触大自然。
走进一个非常舒服的绿色奇幻森林，让我们体验一下跟大自然平相处。
在克切拉禅修林，有个团队绿色小组，是负责美化克切拉禅修林，一切种植相关工作。
克切拉禅修林有机菜园里，种植各式各样的蔬菜豆类，有羊角豆、黄瓜、辣椒、日本黑豆、鳄梨和苦瓜等等。
为克切拉禅修林寻求宁静及成长的到访者，提供一个色、香、声和味俱全的舒适环境。
在这里感谢绿色小组打造一个奇幻森林。让我们有机会接近大自然。走进一个非常舒服的绿色奇幻森林，体验一下跟大自然和平相处。
As I look at these images of Kechara Forest Retreat moments, I simply smile to myself. What a journey…what a space…what a community.
Living in Kechara Forest Retreat and witnessing the little miracles of life is a fulfilling way to pass each day. I learn that it is when I can re-identify the fundamentals of life, being happy becomes easier.
Cherishing fresh air, silence, sunshine and smiling faces in Kechara Forest Retreat has redefined Life for me and I have Tsem Rinpoche and my mother to thank for this!
I really love the fact that we are getting closer and closer to the concept of conscious community for example, we aim to self-sustain via various activities and for years, green team has been working tirelessly to achieve this. With the update above, I’m glad that it’s not impossible to reach our ultimate goal. The green team’s perseverance has brought them fruitful results. Please keep up the good work Likheng, Pastor Chia & Julia!
I remember when we first moved onto this land and the Green team started planting, it was difficult. It was monsoon season, and because the soil hasn’t been used for planting before, vegetation was hard to grow. However, through watching youtube, speaking with others, reading, visiting nurseries, learning, and LOTS OF CARE and love, the Green team, who had NO experience in planting at all, succeeded. I remember when I first ate their harvest of cucumbers – it was sweet, juicy and crunch! Pesticide free! It was really good. Then there were chillis, corn, kangkung to name a few. And this first harvest of lettuce, that was actually quite difficult to grow (But they succeeded to!), was amazing too!! It was sweet, fresh and super yummy! I was with a girl who doesn’t usually eat lettuces, but she loved this one! Glad to see the vegetation at KFR growing well.
KFR is really a lovely place to be… if you like animals, there’s the aviary. If you like to plant, we have the organic farm. If you like to learn Dharma, there are pastors to teach. If you like to meditate, we have a 2day 1 night inner peace retreat for busy city folks…. I love my weekends up at KFR, to get away from the city and enjoy the fresh dew of nature.
Amazing spaces and gardens treated with so much care
You are all doing an amazing work all together with Rinpoche. Everything is treated with high caring. The plants are very happy!
Rinpoche has always wanted to create a holistic place where we can grow and make our own foods and at the same time feed ourselves spiritually as we engage in spiritual practices which will heal our minds and soul. A great big thumbs up for the Green team who are working hard not only to green up KFR but at the same time making these pesticide-free produce available 🙂
The natural soil condition is interesting, becoming clayish after rain. The Green Team of KFR are working hard on improving the soil, experimenting with planting varieties of vegetable and fruit trees. Their efforts are showing results as written here by Rinpoche.