Discouraged by pigs, encouraged by tubers
Yesterday was a pig day at the farm. The wild pigs got into the fenced groundnut field — the precious no-till experiment — and had themselves a feast. Meanwhile, the […]
Category Archives: Trees
A cure for dog dandruff
If your dog badly needs this, run out right now and locate a palash tree! The flowering season is almost over for this year, and the flowers are ready to […]
Two additions to our family and menu
We finally managed to grow some cauliflowers! They are tiny, but good looking. And after many attempts and many doomed seeds and cuttings, we now have four fine agathi trees […]
Some moment when the moon was blood
Red moon rising… And here is the year’s first palash, a splash of orange in the dry February landscape. The leaves of this tree, stitched together, make lovely, biodegradable disposable […]
It’s raining mangoes!
The mangoes are still growing, they’re not yet ready to pick. These are windfalls. Most of our 22 mango trees are supposed to be Banganapalli, but we suspect they have […]
Hoffable herralumps
I don’t have the heart to blame an animal for anything it does. So, elephants, you are not only forgiven, but sympathised with. Drought, fires, loss of habitat – what […]
A flowery walk
Some time back our friend Gopakumar, who is full of wild lore, told us about the Jalaari tree (shorea roxburghii), which flowers in our local forest around Shiva Ratri. I […]
The poinsettia is blooming
The northeast monsoon is playing truant again and the poor trees think it’s winter already. Two of the mango trees have begun flowering in a feeble, apologetic sort of way. […]
The weaver birds are back!
Several months ago, one of our neighbours got in a JCB to remove the lantana running wild on their land. In passing, a tree near our pond was uprooted. I […]
The mango season is ending – thank goodness!
This year, our mango orchard turns five, and we harvested close to 500 fruit over about two and a half months. The first few batches, which included windfalls, hailfalls, elephant […]
The Long View 