Category: Farm Blog

Category: Farm Blog

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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What’s Gardening to you?

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

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How to grow ginger at home

This is my first successful ginger crop. I did try a couple of times before but somehow it didn’t work out. The truth is I wasn’t really keen on growing it, so I didn’t try much. This time I planted around February-March time frame. Though most of them sprouted well,

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The truth about oils

Coconut oil was the first thing we processed from our farm produce. It was a huge learning curve for us because we had never done anything like that before. And therefore avoided venturing into anything beyond growing food on our farm.It took some researching to find a good oil mill

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It’s been a year of Chillies

The year of chillies!!! This year has definitely been the year of chillies. Have a look at this little clip and tell me how many colours and varieties of chillies can you spot? Just looking at them gives me so much happiness. I was able to grow Purple Cayenne Peppers,

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Life purpose and such…

At certain stages in our lives, we pause and think about our purpose. You know, the BIG question! The meaning of life and such… I did too and the answers didn’t come easily. It kept presenting itself in very weird ways. It came across in the form of frustration, helplessness

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