Category: Farm Blog

Category: Farm Blog

A cottage garden dream

I don’t know if it’s the rains or just that time of the year; I always seem to pause and look back on the year that was right about this time. But today, I go a little over the year and look back at the time when this farm and

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Thumbai Poo Thovayal / Chutney Recipe

Every time I visited my farm I kept making a mental note to pay a closer visit to some of the medicinal plants that has been growing like weeds everywhere on my farm. I spotted the beautiful Thumbai poo (Leucas aspera), Ammaan pacharisi (Euphorbia hirta) and Keezhanelli (Phyllanthus niruri) very

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Garden pathways

English Cottage-style Garden Pathways… This was on my list of things for my farm. Design-wise I have been trying to bring in a Cottage garden feel to my farm and what’s a cottage garden without its characteristic flagstone, pebbled pathways right? So, after putting off for long, we finally got

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A half-acre Food Forest

Welcome to our half-acre food forest. We created it five years ago while working fulltime in the city and working on our farm on the weekends. This is where we grow our seasonal produce – tomatoes, lady’s finger, brinjals, gourds, basil, radish, leafy greens and so much more. Though it’s

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Building garden arbors

I have been talking about this for sometime now and it’s finally done. It was my dream to have arbors built in my garden spaces. We had a big pergola entrance covered with bougainvillea already and ever since that, I wanted many more miniature arches and arbors at different points

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Water apple/ Rose apple tree

I purchased this fruit tree sapling from an organic nursery 4 years back. I had neither tasted this fruit nor heard about it but the way the shop owner was raving about this fruit, I decided to give it a try. I had my own doubts about whether this sapling

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Some love for the soil

It’s not always about taking but an equal amount of giving back too. No, I’m not doling out philosophical gyan just talking about my farm. The soil that gives us all the nourishment in the form of crops, needs nourishment too. Currently I’m growing green grams on my farm, –

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My Food Forest

This is our half-acre food forest. I thought it was time to show you our Spring Garden 2022! We created it five years ago while still working fulltime in the city and working on our farm on the weekends. We continue to work in the city during weekdays and work

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Growing Yams, Potatoes and more

Not a dull moment in this journey of Self-sufficiency. There are new crops I am adding to my standard vegetable growing list this year. This is our first year growing yams and many more. So come along with me as I show you how we are growing sweet potatoes, taro,

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Decorating with dried grass and garden plants

Crazy fact about me – I am enamored with everything in nature – plants, weeds, wild flowers, bugs, everything. I simply can’t get enough of the beauty of weeds and flowers of grass or anything I see growing on my farm or in my neighborhood. I got interested in decorating

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