Budidaya Jamur di Tasikhargo

Di desa Tasikhargo terdapat dua tempat budidaya jamur yang keduanya terletak di dusun Juru Tengah. Budidaya Jamur ini merupakan milik Mas Mul, dan Mas Anas. Awalnya mereka mengikuti pelatihan jamur sekitar tahun 2010. Pelatihan jamur ini diprakarsai oleh Pak Teguh dan Pak Purwanto yang bergerak dalam bidang wirausaha. Mereka sudah berpengalaman dalam usaha jamur sehingga mereka memberikan pelatihan kepada warga lain. Kedua orang ini bukan berasal...

Learn Deeper »

Sepenggal Cerita untuk Anak-anak SD N II Tasikhargo

“ini dibacanya \’thrē\ bukan \’trē\” Dan dengan susah payah anak-anak itu mencoba menirukan \’thrē\ dengan baik dan benar. Beberapa dari mereka tetap saja melafalkan three dengan \’trē\ (tree). Namun ada beberapa dari satu dua anak yang berhasil melafalkannya dengan benar. “ahh mbak alva ki le ngomong ilate ditekuk tekuk” dan tak jarang celetukan seperti ini muncul...

Learn Deeper »

To Watch, To Know more

so, this  is it,, a video (actually slides of photo) of KKN JTG 21.. yeaaah this is us..  this is only a little introduction of our group, what we do there. so enjoy this... and once more, you can find this video in youtube.. or else you can access erizedkai.com/tasikhargo. that is website for JTG 21 and you will find some articles there, including mine.  :D...

Learn Deeper »

Another Unique Tradition

How they cut the trees, or should I say how they harvest the trees, is a little bit different. Too much considerations and rules. This is how they live, to love nature as a form of respecting God’s blessing. There, people will not cut trees as free as they want. They have to look on the Javanese days before doing it. Bad days, good days can be determined based on the Javanese days. Mostly people called this system itung-itungan jawa. WHY? The answer...

Learn Deeper »

Kondangan

KONDANGAN Strange word? Haven’t heard it, right? This is a tradition still be kept by people in Tasikhargo. It is similar with genduren, Javanese tradition. WHEN? WHERE? And HOW? When they get close to Ramadhan, fasting time, they will hold kondangan. When they get close to Idul Fitri, they will also do it. When they have been in the 21st day of Ramadhan, kondangan will also be held. So, this is the part of their activities. Kondangan will...

Learn Deeper »

"Sacred Place" between Rice Field

This place is called Mbogo. It is a famous enough place in Tasikhargo. It is kind of a forest in the middle of rice fields. Most people are coming there to enjoy the sceneries, the old giant trees. Not only teenagers, children and elders also come there for several reasons. Mostly, they come in the morning or evening as they can see sunrise and sunset clearly. Besides,...

Learn Deeper »

LIFE CYCLE

Born, baby, kid, teenagers, adult, then become older, finally go to heaven. This is life. It will not stick in one condition. It will flow as the time has changed. people are holding tahlilan for 7days of death As a Javanese, there will always be a rite in every moment, special moment. Before a baby born seeing the world, people will also do rites. It is called neloni and...

Learn Deeper »

Another Tradition of Harvesting

     According to Oxford Dictionary, ritual is a series of actions that are always carried out in the same way, especially as a part of religious. A ritual may best be defined, perhaps, as a prescribed way of performing religious acts, that is, of praying, singing sacred songs, dancing to the gods, making sacrifices, or preparing offerings (Beals and Hoijer, 1964).            ...

Learn Deeper »

He is "Beautiful"

Gone to Bali for important meeting, Mas Dalih sent Mbak Abmi to teach in his creative writing class for the last two meetings. Being a guest before, last two week she taught us by playing a movie “Bag It” – a movie I reviewed on my previous blog. Then, last week she brought is a beautiful guest with long hair, and  pointed piercing nose. This guest looked like a beautiful woman, yet I felt something unusual about her. Surprised I am when...

Learn Deeper »

Painting ; Nature and Style

Kim Yee Seul, an English Department student of UGM, started painting with acrylic at four years old. She was inspired by Van Gogh. Most of her paintings are well combination of fashion, style and nature. This is one of her painting. Two boys are playing video game. It is a little bit weird since they are playing on green grass. However, that makes this painting excellent...

Learn Deeper »