It’s still cool and cloudy, but the rain has stopped. It’s supposed to be sunny from tomorrow onwards, and then it will get very hot. I think we will finally have our summer. We have almost a month till we plant, so some good hot and dry weather will be great, though less pleasant toContinue reading “Cloudy with a chance of…”
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Another storm approaches
This time, as an after-effect of the cyclone Yaas in West Bengal, the forecast says rain for the next few days. We’ve started dumping mud near the ‘dam’, which is the main place from which we lose water and soil, and where we have been building the retaining wall. We have a few days workContinue reading “Another storm approaches”
After the rain…
A few days ago, the cyclone Tauktae in Maharasthra brought a night and day of rain to us, accompanied by the loudest thunder I have ever heard in my life. We enjoyed the few days of unseasonal breezy coolness in the middle of May, usually the hottest and driest month of the year. The otherContinue reading “After the rain…”
Who we learn from
Akira Miyawaki: for intensive planting mainly around our boundary and places where our land is threatened by erosion Masanobu Fukuoka, Subhash Palekar: Natural farming techniques Robert Hart, Martin Crawford, Geoff Lawton: Forest gardens and food forests Others: There are so many inspiring individuals around India and the world who we read and listen to, andContinue reading “Who we learn from”
First steps
Digging, tool-building, organising The excavator is busy making trenches along the entire boundary, in order to plant intensively, Miyawaki-style. The trenches are 10 x 20 ft, and each will contain about 75 trees of four different sizes. We’re in the process of making lists of trees and contacting nurseries to order the saplings for nextContinue reading “First steps”
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