Next step towards my self-sufficiency and sustainable journey is of course, processing my farm produce. The first in line is – My farm grown Coconuts to Coconut Oil. Hurray!!! I guess it can’t get any more organic than that and hence I am super excited about it. Let me walk
BIO ENZYMES FOR HOME CLEANING A Step by Step Guide I have been preparing “Bio-enzyme” for many years now and had never looked back since. I was looking for alternative solutions for home cleaners as I wanted to stop buying toxic chemical based cleaners for my home. That’s when I
As the vegetable crops slowly come to the end of their life cycle, the next obvious and very important step is seed saving. It’s very important for any farmer to learn to save his/her own seeds for the next succession crop. I never thought I would be one to take
In this day and age, when technology has made everything easier, faster and with far less need for any physical effort, why is it that we feel a certain emptiness within? After striving and working our way up to attain everything we ever wanted in life, why is that happiness
This is post 7 and the final post of the series I started writing to chronicle my farm journey from preparing the land to harvesting produce. It had been a wonderful journey thus far and if you haven’t read my earlier posts, then please click on post 1, post 2, post 3, post 4, post
As the year winds down, it’s time to look ahead and plan for the upcoming year; but somehow I will not be able to do that until I look back on this wonderful and eventful year that was nothing short of a life changing one. It brought in dreams and
Finally! We are ready to have people over at our farm. Never in our wildest imagination did we visualise this day to arrive so soon. And yet, here we are! Ready to embrace something we have never done before. The date was decided on a whim as we have been
Have you ever wondered why home-grown/ homemade/ handmade/ handcrafted… is always expensive, and difficult to source? And all the while, their cheaper counterparts are readily available in abundance, at every nook and cranny of the city. It’s the marketing of such dubious products that prey on our time-constraint and need
It is definitely not easy to answer that question because it was a tiny seed of a dream that was there for quite some time, buried underground without anyone’s knowledge, silently waiting for the right conditions to grow. Because otherwise what’s the rationale on why we felt the way we
I have a very small farm located in a village on the out-skirts of Chennai, India. And by small I mean very small, about half acre, close to ten grounds with around 20 coconut trees. Yeah, not a huge area but enough to realize my dreams of living off the
