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 […]
Category Archives: Farming
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A small step forward
Momentous things have been happening in the last one month. At least, it feels momentous to me because, while it is only the first small step forward, I dream of […]
Trees in waiting
As we settle in to wait for the rains, the trees in my ‘nurseries’ wait too. In clay pots and plastic bags and troughs and coir pots and coconut shells, […]
