Grow more trees!
I’ve been too busy the last few weeks to post or even read my favourites on WordPress, but this morning I happened to read this post by Jeremy Williams. His […]
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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 […]
Lal Mohan
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 […]
Enjoying summer without fridge or fan
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 […]
Who’s this?
‘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 […]
Sheet mulch
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 […]
A new friend
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 […]
