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Monthly Archives: December 2016

End of year tree census

31/12/2016by thelongview Leave a comment

Our daughters are home for the holidays, and I am rushed off my feet and so happy! This week, we did a tree census at the farm. We have around […]

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Farming, Trees

Toby Hemenway, a friend I never knew

21/12/2016by thelongview 1 Comment

Toby Hemenway, author of Gaia’s Garden, RIP. You were a friend and a teacher to me, though you never knew of my existence – just one of your thousands of […]

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Gaia's garden, People, Toby Hemenway

Elephantine problems, and some possible solutions

16/12/2016by thelongview Leave a comment

The forests around Bangalore are bursting with pachyderms. Though we’ve just been visited by a cyclone, there still appears to be a water shortage in elephant country. This is the […]

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Night of the elephant

10/12/2016by thelongview Leave a comment

Last weekend, we finally saw our first elephant at the farm. Until now, it’s been a case of ‘by their works shall ye know them’. Every time we are at […]

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Elephants, Environment, Farming, People, Village life

A joy forever

05/12/2016by thelongview 2 Comments

Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-scale Permaculture by Toby Hemenway, Chelsea Green Publishing. Although I’d attended a short course on permaculture when I first read this book, and was familiar […]

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Book review, Gaia's garden, Permaculture, Toby Hemenway

Bhaskar Save, a quiet green hero

05/12/2016by thelongview Leave a comment

The Vision of Natural Farming by Bharat Mansata, Earthcare Books. This book is about the life, philosophy and practical insights of Bhaskar Save, a natural farmer in coastal Gujarat. As […]

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Bhaskar Save, Book review, Natural farming

The One Straw Revolution

05/12/2016by thelongview Leave a comment

      The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka, Other India Press.   “The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of […]

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Book review, Fukuoka, Natural farming

What’s growing in this drought?

04/12/2016by thelongview Leave a comment

We have roses, hibiscus and marigolds blooming almost around the year. Not whole beds of them, but a shrub here and a bush there. Very individualistic, our plants are. And […]

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Trees, Vegetable farming

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