Half a cow is better than one
Don’t kill me, gau rakshaks! I mean no disrespect to the cow. And no cows were harmed in the making of this post. But before I come to the story […]
Category Archives: Farming
Room with a view
My cutie pies looking out. Some prefer the view upside down. Happy Independence Day, everyone!
Earth’s enemy: the JCB
Right up there with dynamite and the atomic bomb. There’s nothing as chilling as the approach of the JCB. In a few hours, it can raze an entire landscape: trees, […]
A field of beans: haiku
Here once was a road, Now a field of avare – Fallen milky way. A year ago, access to our farm was blocked by a villager who decided to plough […]
Where’s the joy?
From June to August end my husband has agreed to teach a course at his old institute. In our thirty-five years of married life, we have always functioned as a […]
The congress walk
Ha! I meant congress grass, all you political types! Congress-with-a-capital-C may bring its own troubles, but this congress grass, aka Parthenium hysterophorus, is fast becoming the bane of my life. […]
To moong and ragi, siblings in a field
There was a hasty woman Who ploughed some crooked lines And she planted out some ragi And some moong beans looking craggy, And they all grew together in the crooked […]
