One of the organic fertilizers we’re going to be using is jeevamrit: a mix of cow urine, dung, gram flour, jaggery, and water. Jeevamrit is a liquid microbial culture. We’ll treat the soil from all our trenches and pits with it, and later spray it on the topsoil as well.
(above) Gaurav measuring and mixing. We are doing a batch of five 250 litre drums, which will take four days to ferment, and then we’ll use them up and do another batch.
(left) Sunil taking out the cowdung. The dry manure will use aged and dried cowdung, but this uses fresh cowdung.
Other activities of the day…
Making numerous draft site plans. Once we have finalized one, I will transfer it to the large-scale one on the wall.
Cutting kasha. We’ll leave it to dry and then use it in the trenches as one of our perforating materials.
Our excavator driver and supervisor taking a break on the newly carved out path.
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