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Veganic Growing in Shangri-La
Around a week ago, the last of the Gentle World volunteers arrived at our Vegan Educational Center in Northland, New Zealand, officially kicking off the 11th summer in our Southern Hemisphere Center,...
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Vegan Education in Animal Farming Country
In an area of New Zealand that is better known for the farming of sheep and cows than vegan education, Gentle World volunteers shook things up a little last weekend, by inviting the residents of the...
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Gentle Catering at The Herb Shack
From the 9th to the 12th of February, Gentle World volunteers provided healthy, delicious vegan food to participants at a healing convention at The Herb Shack Café in our local town of Kaitaia, New...
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Shangri-La Receives a Tiny Visitor…
Related Post: Good Nutrition for Healthy Vegan Dogs A few weeks ago, while we were minding our own business, a furry little someone wandered out of the wilderness and showed up on our doorstep…...
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Gardening with Magic
As part of Gentle World’s vegan educational program, visitors have the opportunity to learn how to grow their own food, not just organically – which is without the use of chemicals – but without the...
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Harvest Time in Shangri-La
Here in Gentle World, we sometimes forget that many people don’t have the luxury of enjoying home-grown vegetables, let alone delicious veganically-grown fruit… But in Shangri-La, thanks to the hard...
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Gentle World’s Giant Pear!
Every now and then, our veganic growing program rewards us with a giant vegetable or piece of fruit… To give you some idea of the scale, the flower to the left is a magnolia, which usually measures...
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Waking Up: Vegetarian to Vegan
Over the last six years that I spent as a vegetarian, vegan felt like a small step away. Vegan was, from my perspective, the sister of vegetarianism; close, but with a tumultuous relationship. It...
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Sharing the Joy of Vegan Cooking
On Saturday, March 12th, Gentle World volunteers hosted a free vegan cooking class at our favorite NZ venue: The Herb Shack. With 22 attendees who showed lots of interest in the vegan culinary...
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Garden Fun with Little Ones
A few weeks ago, we had a super-fun day here in Shangri-La, as we hosted a gathering of aspiring little gardeners from the local Playcenter. Hoping to show these youngsters that it can be fun and...
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Enjoying the Riches of the Vegan Lifestyle
Back in April, we received a beautiful letter from two of our all-time favorite penpals… Eric and Lilly came to visit Shangri-La as wwoofers back in 2010, and have stayed in touch ever since. It’s...
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The Legal Right to Do Wrong
“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the...
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Gentle World on New Zealand National Radio!!
Gentle World and veganism were featured on nationwide New Zealand radio this month, with a slot on a show called Spectrum. Spectrum is a long-running documentary series created by Jack Perkins, New...
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You Can’t Return to Ignorance
~ Silvi Burden When I first came to Shangri La, to stay for a week with the people of Gentle World, I had no idea what to expect. I was really nervous about staying with people I had only emailed with...
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~ Anthony Policano Amazing how each new place brings a new adventure. Just when I thought maybe things might soon get boring, I stumble onto a new way to ‘get high’. I’m not talking about smokin’...
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The Shangri-La Experience
Thank you so much for welcoming me so kindly to Shangri-La. As soon as I found out about Gentle World on the internet I knew I had to visit. Sometimes things immediately resonate with us, and this...
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It Must Have Been Lovely
In October of 1970, as an anthem for the very first Earth Day, American singer-songwriter Tom Paxton wrote a haunting song painting a picture of the planet as it might one day be… devoid of the...
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Letters from our Visitors
from Jesse Seiden, United States: For me, visiting Gentle World was the beginning of my journey, but I was so impacted by the peaceful sanctuary and the amazing people who live in it, that I decided...
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I Know I’m Doing the Right Thing
~ Tiziana Picasso I was a vegetarian for two years when I arrived in Shangri-La. But I never really thought about veganism. I didn’t want to give up my cheese (I’m French, you understand?) The first...
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People Like You
The Southern Hemisphere summer is over. It’s the time of year when Gentle World’s volunteers return from Shangri-La, our New Zealand location, back to Hawaii. It’s hard to believe that only one week...
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The Spirit of Kisses
When Kisses first set foot in Shangri-La, she walked right into the arms of Butterflies, to whom she was to become one of the most important beings in the world. But even then, she could never have...
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An Afternoon with Will Tuttle
“Our inherited meal traditions require a mentality of violence and denial that silently radiates into every aspect of our private and public lives, permeating our institutions and generating the...
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My Vegan Corner of the World (The Kisses Garden)
photos by Nadine Loraine … Life really gets fun when we convert a patch of grass into a thriving ecosystem. My vegan corner of the world is about 30 by 35 feet; a garden to nurture all the senses; to...
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Gentle World: A Brief History
When Light and I became vegan in February of 1970, there was one reason and one reason only. It wasn’t because of its health benefits, which were unknown at the time, as was its positive effect on the...
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Dearest Gentle World Family…
~ a letter from Tessa Martens Today, it has been one month since I was part of your lovely community and worked in the garden. I felt so calm and at peace in Gentle World and everything felt good. I...
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A Better Reality
Three years ago, we were fortunate enough to meet two wonderful people who came to us from Italy, and volunteered in Shangri-La for two seasons in a row, becoming part of our communal family for a...
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Veganic Gardening with Butterflies
Your compost is the most important thing for veganic gardening. You save your vegetables and fruit peels in a pile, add to compost pile and cover with hay, and flip it. It has to aerate a certain...
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Spreading The Vegan Message
by Luise Schmerbach Dear Gentle World, Thank you for showing me this beautiful place. During these past 11 days, I’ve learned a lot about veganic gardening, communal living and also even more about...
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In December of 2015, on a very sunny spring day, I arrived at this hidden valley in the far north of New Zealand. My first week in Gentle World passed by so quickly, as I helped with weeding, cooking,...
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