Locavore NXT

Infographics

Change can happen fast. We made these infographics back in 2021 as an example of the seismic shifts that the pandemic brought to our neighbourhood. Now that we’ve had a 4 million % increase in Bali visitors since last year with 50,000 tourists arriving per day in December… we’re no longer sure which was more dramatic. Bali’s decline or Bali’s comeback?

The Metamorphosis Issue

What The F Just Happened

Soursloths & Goldy Monkey

Applepillar & Salakobra

King Duri & Naga

Fruitonoids

Meet The Fruitonoids

All Content

Ten Ways To Make David Attenborough Proud

Fermenting

Fresh

Food is alive... even when you're not trying to transform ingredients into something very impressive for tonight's dinner party, they will shift shapes, textures (and smells) all by themselves and become an entirely different matter.

To capture this, we either made very big food or we shrank our photographer. We're not going to let you into all our secrets. But here's what we saw.

Honey I Shrank The Photographer

Restaurant Review

As the future of Nature hangs in the balance, so the future of our food system – from our seeds to our dinner tables – is a pretty big question mark right now.

Will there be any fish left? Will anyone know what a potato is? Will we even still eat with our mouths and taste with our tongues?

One restaurant reviewer’s experience fifty years from now sheds light on what the future of food might have in store for us. Don’t ask where we found it…

Food From The Future

More coming soon...

Foodle Part 1

FOODLE: Guess What They Ate

Hot Hot Eat

Pots of broth, sate skewers, grilled cheese sandwiches, little fried delicious things. None of our favourite roadside snacks in Bali could exist without the transformative powers of fire and the hot sizzlin' heat of the cooker. 

But what's really going on under the grill? How toasty does it get when you're in charge of fanning the flames? What would the world of street food look like if you walked around with thermal vision?

Kevala Ceramics

Avani Eco

Pattika

More transformation inspiration coming soon...

Sungai Watch

Shape-shifting doesn't necessarily get a good rep. Too often, masters of transformation use their powers to trick and deceive for selfish means. When we look around us, though, we also see a lot of people using this ability for good. To turn bad things into better things. To get some lemons... and make some banging lemonade.

Perhaps none are more inspiring than the great minds turning one man's trash into another's treasure. During our search for like-minded collaborators on our new project, we've come across innovative entrepreneurs all across Bali using their creativity to change underused, overlooked or thrown away materials into useful, beautiful, 

These ventures bring hope that maybe, just maybe, we humans are capable of swapping out our old harmful habits for new regenerative ones. 

If you want to feel a bit less doomy and gloomy about the state of the planet, take a look at what these heroes are up to. They might even trigger a genius idea for a new enterprise of your own...

Shifting Matters

Another drawing from tiny hands coming soon...

Now The Monkey Comes Out Of The Sleeve

Our head chef Eelke says the strangest things, which according to him are perfectly normal. 

Dutch idioms, it turns out, don't always translate very well into English.

While it might be quite common in Holland to exclaim "Alsof er een engeltje over je tong piest!" when you're enjoying a meal, it's less familiar to hear somebody say "it's like an angel is pissing on my tongue" at the dinner table.

We love the confused silences that these lost-in-translation moments bring so much that we asked Eelke's kids to draw their interpretations of his expressions. 
Can you guess what they mean?

Eelke Says...

Aaron Boyer, mushroom cultivation expert a.k.a. fungal wizard

mushrooms getting cosy with a tree, photo by Jesse Bauer

mycelium "leather" range by MYLO

Bob Hendrikx designs "Living Cocoon" mycelium coffin

mycelium ceiling pendants by UK designer Sebastian Cox

a Pink Oyster ready for chopping, photo by Edgar Castrejon

wild 'Mushroom of Immortality' growing in Indonesia, photo by Aldo Risky Pratama

magical 'Amanita Muscaria' toadstools , photo by Hans Veth

Mushroom Man Part 1

A Talk With The Mushroom Man

Talking Organic

Mixtape: Metamorphosis

To undergo real change, to truly become something else... well, that can take some guts.

To embark on a journey of meaningful change requires leaving something behind. If you truly want to become something else, you have to give up a part of who you are now. 

It's simple logic, but it's not such a simple task. 
Change takes guts.

When a caterpillar undergoes metamorphosis, it digests itself... disintegrating its tissues into a protein-rich soup, which bags of cells called “imaginal discs” then cook up into a magical butterfly. We don’t know exactly how caterpillars feel about this process, but it sounds to us like a pretty brave thing to do.

In this sense, you could say that we are currently a big pot of Locavore soup. We have listened to the voices telling us "be more than just a restaurant". And we have found the courage to begin our own metamorphosis. 

Over the coming months, we are going to be stirring all our melted down parts and using our wildest imagination to transform ourselves into something better. 

We would be fibbing if we said that this has been easy peasy breezy lemon squeezy. 

But the world is hungry for change. 
Let’s feed it.

The Metamorphosis Issue

1. What The F Just Happened

2. Meet The Fruitonoids

3. Ten Ways To Make David Attenborough Proud

4. Honey I Shrank The Photographer

5. Food From The Future

6. FOODLE: Guess What They Ate

7. Hot Hot Eat

8. Shifting Matters

9. Eelke Says...

10. A Talk With The Mushroom Man

11. Talking Organic

12. Mixtape: Metamorphosis