About my farming journey and lots of gardening resources and tips
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 early on. The first time …
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 to it. Anything you do …
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 meant to be full of …
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 in my farm. I wanted …
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 would even grow up to …
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, – not for our consumption, but …
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 on our farm on weekends. …
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, elephant’s foot yam, potatoes, ginger …
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 using dried grass recently and …
Gardening isn’t a human having a transactional relationship with his/her plants – “I” sow, “I” water and therefore “I” shall reap the rewards. Of course you shall, but there are so many more elements involved in that equation. When we garden, we are not just in a relationship with the plant we grow but with …
