New Earth School: Cooking, Growing and Healing.

New Earth School: Cooking, Growing and Healing. Growing - Cooking - Healing

Empowering people through food by facilitating connection with self, others and Earth in a playful way.

Classes, trainings and internships. Founded by Simon Jongenotter, executive chef of Zest Ubud. The New Earth Cooking School is a not-for-profit sanctuary, dedicated to living in collaboration with the Earth. We are nestled on sacred land in between the beautiful mountains of Bali, near Tabanan. We empower ourselves through reconnecting to the Earth, which we've found provides everything we truly

need to thrive. We're blessed with pure drinking water that flows abundantly right from a nearby cold spring, and food that grows year-round in our school gardens and food forests. It is through this way of living (what we call New Earth way of living) that we find a greater sense of joy, connection and peace in our everyday lives. Our mission is to share this way of living with all who have a desire to learn. We have lots of unique plant-based recipes and ancient garden wisdom to share. Even so, we know that the greatest teacher is Mother Earth so we often spend time outside, just listening. It is our hope that through learning with us, you feel more empowered and connected to the planet and yourself. In living harmoniously with the planet, that we will learn to live harmoniously with each other, and ourselves.

05/10/2025

If you’ve been to Turkey you would know the locals love their tahini, olive oil and ci******es. But did you know how they grow the ingredients for these? Come check it out!

Ola blessed friends in Bali!Are you feeling a little tired, stressed, sick, or uninspired? Are you feeling a hunger that...
26/05/2025

Ola blessed friends in Bali!

Are you feeling a little tired, stressed, sick, or uninspired? Are you feeling a hunger that no food can seem to fix?

🌎 You may need some of our medicine. MAMA EARTH MEDICINE!

🔥We have good news:

We are ready to welcome you for a day of joy, connection, medicine plants, and cooking from the heart.

🌬️In the green heart of Bali. A unique food experience to recharge your soul with the force of the forest.

*This Friday from 09:30 to 15:00 at New Earth Cooking School Bali*

👩🏽‍🌾🧑🏽‍🍳

💧Our program;

09:30 Arrival with Herbal Garden Tea
10:00 Opening Circle
10:30 Light Fruit Based Breakfast
11:00 Forest Garden Exploration
12:00 Community Cooking
14:00 Shared Lunch Feast
15:00 Hugs Goodbye

We would love for you to bring your unique flavors to the day. We welcome all parts of you to join and play!

Is this calling you?

Please DM me to secure your spot, and we will see you Friday!

♥️With love,
Your New Earth Family.

Location: New Earth Cooking School https://maps.app.goo.gl/Kf7E9tv92sa33CJC9

🌱Price: 850k for the day. All food and drinks included.

Whatsapp Iwan for Questions and Bookings: +6285792676533

Please come on time as we wait for everyone to start our opening circle.

Join our WhatsApp group to be the first to know about upcoming events: https://chat.whatsapp.com/Es6QSdYIXgREXlZHz8jXbm

Email: [email protected]
Follow us on IG: .earth.school

05/02/2025

We are rekindling with our 9 year old, 66 are Balinese food forest. It’s been some years since we properly gave it some attention and input to steer the eco system towards food and medicine for humans. So today we are taking the first step and hopefully this year we will eat the fruits of our labor. That’s the beauty of a food forest , you can neglect it for years and still find something to eat on any given day.

New Earth School Bali is calling our new kitchen manager! Will you pick up the phone? Are youA born kitchen angel? a big...
22/01/2025

New Earth School Bali is calling our new kitchen manager!

Will you pick up the phone?

Are you

A born kitchen angel?

a big hearted lover of the Earth, who wants to live in our school and work with us like a family?

Do you love Indonesia and to cook and play with the ingredients that grow on this land?

Our team is all Balinese so we are looking for an Indonesian citizen or an international with a work visa and good Indonesian skills

Reach out to us if this is calling you.

[email protected]

*PUPPIES LOOKING FOR A NEW HOME* Halo 😇 friends in BaliWe are New Earth.Cooking school in Central Bali where we grow foo...
02/04/2024

*PUPPIES LOOKING FOR A NEW HOME*

Halo 😇 friends in Bali

We are New Earth.Cooking school in Central Bali where we grow food in a forest. As you can imagine this place is rather fertile. As a result we now have 3 fluffy , chubby puppies that are ready for a loving place to call home.

We love Bali dogs. They are intelligent, loyal and perfect protectors of our home. Although rescuing street puppies is a noble thing indeed, we have noticed that they hold on to some less then optimal behaviors such as scavenging rubbish for food and being overly competitive. We have noticed that our boy bumi, who was born here and therefore had maximum breastmilk, great food and tons of cuddles, has none of these behaviors. He's a dream 🐕 dog.

These 3 pups have been breastfeeding to the point the Mother ready to have her life back. They are best friend with cats, well fed and healthy. They are free to a loving home.

21/03/2023

Showing that Bali has been a food forest for thousands of years. Enjoy this little country side stroll.

12 years ago I found both legs sunken deep into 2 very different waters. Daytime revolved around the blood sweat and bac...
02/02/2023

12 years ago I found both legs sunken deep into 2 very different waters. Daytime revolved around the blood sweat and bacon grease of a smokey commercial kitchen whilst at night I would float on esoteric waves at Sydney’s leading college for holistic healing modalities studying energy medicine.

Never shy of a little paradox, I wrote my very first blog. S.n.a.g.s: sensitive new age guys, yet also meaning sausage in true Australian. The write up featured a recipe for new age beef ribs as I was desperately trying to marry my carnivorous daytime debauchery with my benevolent nighttime energy healing escapades.

That’s when I had a dream where the spirits told me to climb Bali’s highest mountain. Which I did. At the top of the mountain, more spirits told me to move here permanently. I obeyed. Back in Oz I gave away most of my possessions and flew back to Bali carrying merely a backpack and 2000 dollars.

It all felt kind of elusive, like those Buddhist monks on Bondi Beach I visited weeks before that. They spend months creating complex mandalas using coloured sands only to carry them back to the beach and to see their art works be washed away. My mandala, a promising life in the land of Oz consisting of a dream wife, permanent residency, house, lawnmower and indeed a 1000 watt sausage machine.. This mandala had largely washed into the ocean already, making it a heck of a lot easier to submit to some wicked plan of a Bali mountain god.

Picture ‘The Fool’, the first card of the Taro, the start of the hero's journey, walking onto the island in january 2013. Curious, cracked open, floating on clouds of trust and determined not to sink.

After a few adventurous months I landed a gig at a newly opening Silent Retreat, promising the founder not to cook anything with eyeballs.

Unknowingly, I just started a new apprenticeship, this time with the Earth herself. Situated at the base of the Sacred Mother Mountain, the retreat lands became my private university with The Earth being my teacher and cooking my main modality to express my love for her.

One of the major lessons Earth taught me is that we are custodians to, not owners over our relations with land, people and projects. Today I am a custodian, to a few plots of land that became more diverse edible eco system under our guardianship. To the people, who support me side by side on this journey. And to a school, a place where you can learn about life by deepening your connection to Earth.

In this place, the land is our teacher, food is our vehicle, the gardens our playground, the kitchen our temple and the heart our compass.

We call this place New Earth School: Cooking, Growing and Healing.

If the mountain gods invite you to Bali I trust they will extend an invite for you to visit us too.

Your friend Simon

01/02/2023

Strolling a wonderful permaculture garden on a remote island in Nort East Indonesia. Check out the abundance.

I get a stern, thoughtful look from this old conservative Japanese businessman sitting across from me at Zest Restaurant...
01/02/2023

I get a stern, thoughtful look from this old conservative Japanese businessman sitting across from me at Zest Restaurant. He skillfully dips another slice of wasabi laced Jackfruit (!) sushi in his soy sauce before taking another bite. ‘It cannot’, he politely utters. ‘I know’, I carefully respond. ‘We are sushi criminals’.

Shameless confession. I’ve been a masterful cultural and culinary appro- slash appreciatior since the days of roadkill spaghetti in outback Australia during the dry season of 2003.

If Italian dishes evolved from local abundance and not import ingredients, it should continue to do so. In rural Oz that meant, Kangaroo Bolognese.

In Bali I found myself squeezing ripe papaya into a saucepan, perfectly mimicking the richness of summer ripe tomatoes in Sicily. And with few dairy cows, wheatfields or truly delicious tomatoes around, the ‘Italian’ sounding food we started flogging at Zest must have been criminal enough to spark cardiac arrest in even the most seasoned of Italian mamma’s.

Cassava fettuccine and coconut pizzas and what? Notzarella made from coconut cream? Yes sir, we make the cream without milking the cow. Even the gelato has never heard a moo. The only trauma associated with our icecream is the 20 meter drop the coconut made before nearly landing on my head.

I’m proud of all these Earth first, uber untraditional versions of cultural classics I’ve created during my last decade of cooking in the wet tropics. The key. Show respect for the classics.

That’s why I don’t call that zingy galangal and lemongrass heavy stirfry anything featuring the word Thai (or traditional. Or even worse. Asian) No. This dish I call the Bangkok Bang. A faint memory of my debaucherous days in the capital of Siam, her lingering memories inspired me to knock up a dish that has absolutely nothing to do with traditional Thai food.

It’s a polite bow that says thanks for the memories and inspiration and a humble confession that likely, any of my attempts to copy your traditional flavours will only end tasting like a bland echo of the real deal. So I may as well go off and produce my own unique inventions. Admit that they’re criminal and build an empire upon them nonetheless.

My cookbook is bursting with culturally inappropriate classics including a plant based laksa and Jackfruit rendang! Get it here:

https://www.newearthschool.net/finding-soul-plate

Your friend Simon from New Earth School: Cooking, Growing and Healing.

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