We have finally dug our first pond! We plan to have perhaps two or three of different sizes, and channels connecting each part of the land to one or the other. It’s been a daunting idea, but here’s the first one! We’ll do more shaping and landscaping, including adding stones etc, after this monsoon, onceContinue reading “First pond!”
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Cutting grass and mixing mud
The last two months have mainly been a daily slog to do these two things. Sunil works for a few hours with the grass cutter to reclaim meter after square meter of land from the wild flood-jungle it had become. And we have had the JCB digger in again to make the compost mix andContinue reading “Cutting grass and mixing mud”
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…”
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