Cut off!
Once, not so long ago, we had a road leading to our farm. A sort of road anyway. One day last week, an inhabitant of a neighbouring village, whom I […]
Once, not so long ago, we had a road leading to our farm. A sort of road anyway. One day last week, an inhabitant of a neighbouring village, whom I […]
It is almost two years since Lal Mohan died. She died of a snake bite, aged a little over two and a half years. We’re still not quite over the […]
Until I was about ten, we had no fridge in our house. And again, when I got married, we couldn’t afford one, so we did without for the first four […]
‘Tis the season of insects. Ants, cockroaches, beetles, creepy crawlies everywhere. In an earlier avatar, I would be shouting, dalek-like, ‘Exterminate!’. But the now ahimsa me tries to stay out […]
Finally, I’ve done something that I’ve been obsessing over for months, ever since I read Gaia’s Garden: a sheet mulch. According to Toby Hemenway, this is the best and most […]
This post about is my young friend Mani, the fifteen year old son of a neighbouring farmer. Of course I’ve met him earlier, but this time at the farm, we’ve […]