Kambatik Eco-farm Panoramas

View looking WEST.

It's a Kambatik World out there! Kambatik = Kampung + Batik. Kampung connotes rural, Malay traditional lifestyle, and batik represents colour inspirations, active composition and Malaysian identity.

View looking SOUTH

View looking EAST.

Here are some scenic shots of my "Kambatik eco-farm" taken from higher ground. Notice the bright orange/red/yellow colours of the Eugenia longifolia young leaves in stark contrast to the dark green leaves of the oil palm trees. Eugenia longifolias are medium size trees ( max. ht. 5 m), that were planted here about two and a half years ago as "advance growing trees".

They were planted earlier than the oil palm trees for many reasons. They prevent soil erosion on steep slopes, home for wildlife, shade and beautification purposes ( avenue/boulevard look) thus helping to delineate the un-tarred roads better, especially when you have to manouver the roads in heavy rain at night. Some would call this fuction as engineering pupose!.

The oil palm trees are now mostly 15 months planted in-situ. That means another one whole year t0 wait before they bear fruits and producing the commercial success our " blood, sweat and tears" are looking forward to.

Kambatik Eco-farm Overview

This eco-farm does not look like your kind of an oil palm holding. There is much diversity. For instance exotics are a plenty . There is the wild banana bearing tiny fruits. But alongside are also commercial banana species. There are a collection of herbal plants like the fragrant pandan, lemon grass and kunyit( Curcuma domestica). Contemporary fashionable ornamental plants like the heliconia and plumeria are here to stay. Other interesting plants like "the Tree of Heaven" or Tongkat ali ( eurycoma longifolia ) is grown here too for its aphrodisiac potentialities. It is yet to seen when the first batch of tongkat ali trees bear fruits here.

The surrounding hills and slopes are very much retained. The streams are preserved so that the torrents will overflow the river banks. The water features here attract the red dragon flies that has become our farm's mascot. Natural landscaping where possible are retained for many reasons but not the least as preserve for wildlife especially the wild pigeons that flock here in the evening to drop by their watering holes.

The creation of this eco-farm will be the subject of this blog just as well as the starring characters in the farm like wild birds and animals.

The mission here is to create a sustainable oil-palm farm, incorporating the philosophy of unity in diversity. The concept is " a harvest a day makes farming the fun way ". Among the strategies to achieve the above are going organic, nature conservation and recycling.

The farming credo employed here is " forward with nature". Our success criteria is 'meeting present needs without reducing future potential.'