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Category Archives: Vegetable farming

Vegetables gone wild

07/12/2018by thelongview 6 Comments

I love all my trees and plants, but the ones I’m proudest of are the ones that grow wild. I don’t mean weeds like lantana and congress grass, of course. […]

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Gardening, Vegetable farming

Nine ways to be a terrible cook

27/10/2018by thelongview 6 Comments

I’m the world expert on this, so mark my words well. 1. Decide to use up all the vegetables that might spoil otherwise 2. Decide to make a huge quantity […]

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Cooking, Vegetable farming

Raised beds – four months on

11/08/2018by thelongview 4 Comments

‘That’s the reason they’re called lessons, ‘ the Gryphon remarked: ‘because they lessen from day to day.’ – Lewis Carroll In April this year, we started our system of raised […]

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Natural farming, Raised beds, Vegetable farming

Mohenjodaro comes alive!

17/04/2018by thelongview 8 Comments

Now that our raised beds are ready, we have decided to plant one bed a month. Ideally, one should plant a bed a week, but the monthly schedule seemed more […]

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Natural farming, Vegetable farming

Growing this week

08/08/2017by thelongview 3 Comments

This week, we are growing: More of these beautiful but barren clouds. Some veggies, including our first ever cabbages. Aren’t they sweet? Those yard-long beans are much favoured by the […]

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Farming, Nature, Trees, Vegetable farming, Village life

A small step forward

08/04/2017by thelongview Leave a comment

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 […]

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Education, Farming, Permaculture, Vegetable farming

What’s growing in this drought?

04/12/2016by thelongview Leave a comment

We have roses, hibiscus and marigolds blooming almost around the year. Not whole beds of them, but a shrub here and a bush there. Very individualistic, our plants are. And […]

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Trees, Vegetable farming

Trying to figure it out

06/09/2016by thelongview Leave a comment

We haven’t grown much on our farm this year. Vegetables, yes. And we’ve planted perhaps 50 or 60 trees of various species. But crops, no. This is because I’m confused. […]

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Elephants, Environment, Farming, Permaculture, Vegetable farming

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