Solar power is generated at NXT with panels installed on the roof of our motorbike/car park, taking an otherwise redundant space and converting it into a natural power source. We work with solar company Sunterra and the electricity we generate is fed back onto the national grid. As of 2023 the solar energy we use is restricted to 15% of our total energy for the site, by government policy. We hope in the future this can change so we can generate more and work towards being totally off-grid.

Recycling our water helps reduce how much we use, and help keep more water in the ecosystem serving nature. All the waste water at NXT flows into our Treatment Plant and spends 10-14 days being filtered before it’s fed to our garden irrigation tank and used to water the rooftop food forest.

Our Organic Wellness Centre is where we separate all our waste, recycle, compost, shred plastic to be turned into recycled plastic and separate glass to be used as glass bricks for building. This ensures that nothing leaves NXT without a purpose – everything is used or turned into something that can be used.

All food scraps at NXT go into our worm composting farms, which turn liquid and soil matter into nutrient-rich fertiliser for our rooftop forest. This makes sure that we're feeding the soil we use to grow with, rather than just letting it feed us.

Yep, you read that correctly. All the toilets at NXT are connected to our Worm Sewage Treatment Plant – a chamber deep inside the basement where we have over 2000 worms going to work on everything that gets flushed. This is also where all the greywater from our kitchen sinks ends up. Everything needs to all get mixed together before it's filtered out and used for irrigation, and worms turned out to be the best ones for the job.

Locavore NXT

SUSTAINABILITY HIGHLIGHTS

Welcome to NXT and the first room most people will begin their experience. Our beverage team HQ in a way, they have their micro-distillery in here, and the central bar serves all sort of wonderful drinks made from local ingredients. 

Talking of which, we even have arak palms growing in the room which we'll use for some limited production of our own arak - how hyper local is that? And what is that beautiful Balinese door for???

On our rooftop 'food forest' we have bee hives, which produce honey onsite. 

There are two different bee species that we work with. The first are the black stingless bees that you can find all over Bali. They produce very small amounts of a beautiful, acidic dark honey that is almost like instant vinaigrette. The second are the more traditional honey bees. For these bees we have collaborated with a bee specialist, Pak Wayan, to learn how to take care of them, work with them, and – if we are lucky – harvest their honey. 

We currently have six hives around our food forest, a landscape which specifically includes flowering plants that are high on their go-to list for nectar. 
Long live the bees.

BEEKEEPING

Like all good clichés, we want you to ‘exit through the gift shop’. 

Our concept store is a curated selection of items we wouldn't mind having at home too. From a range of edible products by our LAB X team to our own NXT book, limited edition print artworks, grow-your-own-mushrooms kits, designer apparel, eco designed clothing & footwear, and homeware items based on designs from the interior of NXT. 

Most of our range is also available on our webshop (opening 2024).

DESIGN STORE

Mushrooms have so much creative potential as an ingredient and are symbolic of our pursuit to be more in harmony with natures bounty. 

Our mushroom fruiting chamber is down in the basement facility (where else?) and is as much a living art installation as it is a food production centre. We manage the spore and inoculation process in the mushroom lab and when we are ready, mycelium blocks grow mushrooms in the 8 meter long glass fruiting chamber. 

We grow some lesser known varieties from Indonesia as well as some of our favourite varieties to cook with. This initiative gives us an abundance of mushrooms to play with that we've never had in the kitchens before.

Current and planned mushrooms we are developing include Pink Oyster, Golden Oyster, Lions Mane, Reishi, Pioppino, Milky Mushroom, Golden Enoki, Chestnut, Blue Oyster, Shimeji, King Oyster, Red Wine Cap, Gold Wine Cap, Cordyceps, Hen Of The Woods.

MUSHROOM CHAMBER

LabX is our creative playground. It's our dedicated food laboratory and testing kitchen for culinary research and development... the space for all our new culinary innovations to begin. 

Our R&D team is constantly experimenting with local ingredients to discover new tastes, techniques and, ultimately, recipes that will feature on the tasting menu and beverage menu at NXT. 

Some of the breakthroughs in LabX might also make it into our range of food products sold in the Concept Shop.

LabX

Our concept for NXT was for a creative culinary hub integrated in partnership with nature. 

We have designed the project so that it is integrated back into the landscape, and regenerates itself both literally – with water and soil systems – but also by celebrating nature and sharing information to help foster a better way of living. 

The rooftop of NXT and surrounding landscape is where possible edible plants are grown. We call it our ‘food forest’. We have planted and encouraged growth of plants that naturally want to live in this environment and also treat them to support whatever seasons they naturally want to prosper and fruit. The land itself actually becomes a calendar, as the months pass different plants go through their seasons, and we react by using the crops presented on their schedules.

FOOD FOREST

Our beverage lab is really just a facility for research and development of new beverage ideas. We explore our local ingredients used in the menus and some grown onsite, and see what we can develop for our beverage program. The small batch lab uses a range of equipment that helps to experiment with taste, aroma and sensory experiences. 

Our lunch and dinner menus have drink pairing options and we are proud that they are as creative as the food itself. We mainly serve cocktails, non alcoholic concoctions, and very creative, non-traditional ideas for our drinks.

BEVERAGE LAB

If NXT is a mothership style project, you have just entered the control room. 

The expansive architecture captures the imagination as guests sit with huge window views of the rice paddies and the open kitchen. Our kitchen team are busy during service and on view in our open kitchen design, right in the centre of the dining space. 

It's not the only room you'll experience as part of the menu, but this is where the real action happens.

DINING ROOM

Our Fermentation Kitchen is the home of our seven-strong team managing all fermented related production for use in Locavore NXT and across the Locavore Group. 

The dedicated space and equipment allows us to produce ferments on a scale we have never been able to before, but even more importantly expand on our research and creative development. 

There could be more than a hundred ferments happening in the Lab at any one time. One busy team.

FERMENTATION KITCHEN

Our restaurant for the team and onsite staff. It's important everyone is well looked after with healthy food at NXT, so our team and staff meals are really important parts of the day. It's a good time to get together with everyone, eat some tasty food and have your breaks. 

We also use the Canteen as our pop-up casual restaurant space for guests too. Expect us to announce tickets to come and have a see behind the scenes, and a nice meal even if you haven’t got a reservation at Locavore.

CANTEEN

We love fermentation and using koji across so many different applications, from miso to beverage recipes and more. 

This dedicated series of saunas allow us to control temperature and humidity to not only inoculate koji from rice, but to experiment with tempe and many other ideas. We will also produce a range of packaged goods for home use that will be featured in the Concept Shop as part of our LabX range.

LAB SAUNA

Many of our guests, visiting chefs and beverage friends travel from far and wide to visit Locavore NXT. We thought, what better than having a space for people to stay overnight when they visit?

The Wood Rooms are onsite next to the restaurant and are integrated into the project's vision for sustainability. Working with a reforestry foundation we have created a small wild, wooded area to enclose the cabins.

Guests who book The Full NXT Experience are provided with dinner at Locavore NXT followed by an overnight stay at The Wood Rooms, a private tour of the NXT project (including meeting the chefs) and an off-menu breakfast in our Canteen restaurant.

With only three cabins, availability at The Wood Rooms is very limited. Click below to enquire about booking The Full NXT Experience.

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