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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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Nutritional Yeast now available in NZ!
Up until recently, vegan Kiwis have been unable to obtain savory yeast flakes fortified with B12… You can get savory yeast flakes in bulk bins across New Zealand, but although there a good source of...
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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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Attention New Zealand Readers…
Gentle World is seeking responsible, loving homes for four beautiful puppies who were born in our New Zealand center. Their mother came into our lives already pregnant with eight pups, and we have...
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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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Life in a Vegan Community
In 1981, when I first saw a copy of Gentle World’s classic vegan cookbook, The Cookbook For People Who Love Animals, I felt compelled to meet these vegans – the only other people I knew of at that...
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Listen to “The Vegan Evolution”
At the beginning of this year, Gentle World hosted a vegan open day at The Herb Shack in Kaitaia, New Zealand. Gentle World volunteers welcomed more than one hundred attendees to sample incredibly...
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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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