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Applying clay houses, picking early morning eagles, making bamboo straws by hand ... is the current job of the daring teacher to abandon the city back to the village.

"Naturally woven an ecological fabric, making the life of all things related to each other. People are parasites of nature, nature is the root of maintaining human life", the author Takuji Ishikawa wrote that in  Kimura's Miracle Apple .

Duc Hue is in the rainy season, on the piece of land left after the hasty and hasty industrialization, wild eagle grass grows rampant. A slender farmer with a wrinkled face that is not yet old is hugging a new grass cut to the size of a man, walking on a field of field soil, looking blankly at the coming storm or distant factories unknown. , muttering, "Do not know how long this field is still alive, then know where to look for eagles ...".

That boy is Tran Minh Tien, a technology teacher who quit his job to his hometown of Long An to make a smoking pipe from wild eagle grass. The story of the teacher of Enlightenment is such that the gentle neighbors have known all his life to the field called him Tien "crazy".

Alone, I built a clay house ... with my back

"Is it necessary to ask Mr. Tien 'crazy' all day to hug bamboo with grass wandering? It is in the clay house right there", the water salesman laughed loudly when the reporter asked to find the house of teacher Tran Minh Tien ( 30 years old, produce grass straws).

Through the muddy path because of rain for many days, hiding under the luxuriant trees grass is a clay house with cool leafy roofs woven with eagle grass and bamboo. Tien picked me up with such a gentle smile and the appearance of a genuine farmer that I couldn't think of him as a teacher.

In the natural garden without any chemicals and clear air, we chose a large tree seat to chat about the path from technology teacher to Tien's farmer.

Born and raised in Duc Hue (Long An province), when he was 22 years old, the young man graduated from Technology, College of Pedagogy left the place where he buried his umbilical cord and went to his hometown of Tay Ninh to pursue the profession of typing. young head. Recognizing himself as a dreamer, Tien eagerly went to build a new life, participated in all activities and was loved by many neighbors and colleagues.

The 5-year period is long enough for the boy to answer his concerns about the meaning of life. Tien increasingly realizes that he is not in the place where he belongs, although he loves this land very much. Due to being born in the countryside, close to his garden, her chickens should "only when close to the garden, trees, will I feel like I'm alive".

Whenever he had time, he went to the forests to be a little closer to nature. Gradually, the call from nature, from the memories of the garden of childhood, grew and grew, so after 5 years of teaching, Tien applied to leave home and ... unemployed.

Back to the countryside, the land was rented, the garden asked my mother not to give it, the road to school every day was full of trees on both sides, now the concrete was white, there was no shade. At the age of 27, the unemployed young man wanders up his friends' natural gardens all day, asking to learn more about how to approach agriculture closer.

Suddenly one day walking in the garden of Ms. Sau Sau, Tien suddenly returned to ask his mother to move things because the boy believed that living in a new wild garden is exactly what he was looking for.

Everyone was surprised by the shaking of his head when he knew the male technology teacher decided to build a clay house himself in the middle of an abandoned garden.

Tien's journey to build a clay house has no companions. Learning how to build a house after a time of wandering, Tien personally mixed buckets of clay into mud, brought straw to mix, peeled the tree to make a pile ...

Every day for 10 hours, each handful of clay is formed into the body of the house, only after a rain has leveled all.

So more than two months spent with ants, mosquitoes and piles of bugs in the garden, the house was completed when Tien was exhausted. After the construction of the house, Tien was seen with his back cuffed.

The first night was in the first clay house of my life, watching the star through the window, Tien said: "Feeling like the wedding night". By midnight, showers, the house of Tien is immediately three places.

Tien started his natural convenient life as a local farmer, growing his own vegetables, eating food from his own area: Cotton sprouts, chives, and madams in his garden, fish at the canal bank, cooking as well. only use firewood ...

Garden Tien is not a drop of chemicals, limited plastic, air becomes cool, softer. Instead of "natural coercion" with chemicals, Tien chose to harmonize with every life in the garden, leaving the land to regain its inherent balance.

There was a night when the snake crawled into the house. Now, he was so used to every night having snakes in the garden.

Good land birds park, when the garden is luxuriant, the fertile soil is back when the teacher's clay house has more laughter. From everywhere, friends and ideas and nature love come together, Tien's house is not just one person.

Everyone thought that between the revolution of technology 4.0, a young man with a full degree went to build a clay house with only 15 m2, to get in there with the ants, the bug like Tien was crazy.

But Tien's strange story does not stop at the clay house and the chemical-free garden. A beautiful day after wandering on the canal bank, Tien suddenly came up with the idea to manually make bamboo straws and straws from natural materials available here to gradually replace all the plastic straws in the countryside. me

Technology teacher's story about leaving the town From a technology teacher, Tien left all his homeland to make bamboo straws.

From ecology creates livelihoods and brings livelihoods

Initially, looking for bamboo straws is because Tien simply wants to create his own work and income. Embarking on it makes him find things much more difficult than imagined.

In the morning, Tien wandered around looking for each bamboo bush, choosing suitable bamboo culms to make materials. At night, going back to foreign websites to learn how to make bamboo straws, dig up the proper production process.

Struggling for more than a month, holding the first bamboo straw with his own hand, Tien was extremely happy. But at the same time, he realized that if not relying on the community but living separately from people, it would be impossible to travel long distances.

The neighbors heard the story of making bamboo straws, everyone was bewildered and shook his head: "Maybe this guy is crazy". Because according to them, "now whoever uses those three makes it so hard to sell to whom?".

Everyone's skeptical glances once again poured into Tien when he saw that the young man day by day worked hard on bamboo and dried it and made a straw. Gradually, with enthusiasm and sincerity, Tien also received the "yes, go ahead" nod of the neighbors.

So the bundles of bamboos at Tu Phuong's house were carried by Tien to bring Little Six to dry. The bamboo is dry, Tien cut into many tubes and brought them to Mrs. Hai Rot's house and Hai Co rubbed his head, rubbed his intestine, shaved the shell and brought it home to take salt, dried it again and packed it for the customers.

One job per person, one piece for each person and wages will be calculated at the beginning of the product. That's how strange bamboo straw pipe production line of Tien is operating.

"When he asked me, I always wanted to do it, I finally agreed. Don't do this with it, but it was fun. At first I didn't understand, it often made me do it again, I was angry, but I was very angry I know it should be used well, "said Mrs. Hai Rip - one of the bamboo straws with Tien - sharing.

After making a stable bamboo straw, Tien developed another product, an eagle grass straw. This time, it is much easier to get people to do it.

From the straw, Tien's shop also convinced many of her neighbors to make other handicraft products. As Ms. Tu Phuong's house specializes in products from grass such as mats, hats, bags ... or Chin's uncle are items made of bamboo (hats, baskets, hammocks ...).

Tien will be the collector and then distribute it to customers. Thanks to that, he created jobs for many people in his hometown.

Many people wondered about the expansion of production, Tien bluntly shook his head: "I want every product made with the soul of the person who made it. You look at the bamboo straws that make machines with straws. The bamboo that the girls here do will see is different.A more thing is that if there is a machine, it will take away the work of the people, I don't want to be like that, and with that I just have to try what to do .

Naturally, Tien's method is based entirely on the ecosystem. His adage is that: "Ecology will create livelihoods, from livelihoods to livelihoods."

Working with nature, all things are made from the roots. On the background, he nurtures the ecosystem to grow based on that ecosystem. Thanks to this thinking, Tien always seeks to exploit nature around him in the most sustainable way.

Bamboo makes straws that only chisel the old ones properly, do not cut off the dust, and the grass leaves each pipe, not cutting them all at once. I love every square of eagle grass, every bamboo bush, cajuput root ... With Tien, what nature gives to human life is the most precious thing and he wants to honor it.

When asking about recent movements of environmental protection or natural lifestyle of young people, Tien shared gently: "I do not want to propagate anything. I also do not want to change anyone, that is It is impossible for me to make straw and bamboo products, I just want to give people a choice, a choice from nature.

I kept doing everything in my power, creating products and sharing stories behind them. I feel like to really understand the value of something, everyone must act first. "

Tien's straws and neighbors are now available in many parts of the country.

Currently, Tien's shop operates quite stably, selling more than 3,000 types of straws every day throughout the country. Besides, the craftsmanship and crafts thanks to skillful care from the hands of the neighbors attracted many customers.

Tien had to deny many phone calls to bulk order because he wanted to keep the souls of craft products, not want to scale or put machines into production. Even though the monthly income is only about three million dong, the young teacher has partly fulfilled the desire to create a livelihood for women and girls with the products of his homeland.

In the coming months, Tien will learn more about agriculture, how to create products from nature and especially learn how to grow and use folk medicinal plants. Besides the cool green vegetable garden, Tien hopes he will have more small gardens planted with medicinal plants. This is a long-time cherish of male technology teachers.

Living a life close to nature, Tien found himself like grandparents, like his father in the past, who inspired him so much to pursue this choice. Spending time with his life coming back to nature, Tien Bao is ready to go with him because he believes what he does is right and understands the values he makes.