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
My journey towards an Eco-friendly lifestyle Recently we were interviewed by “The New Indian Express” newspaper about reducing our waste and going for a zero-waste lifestyle. You can read the newspaper clipping here http://epaper.newindianexpress.com/1681006/The-New-Indian-Express-Chennai/02062018#page/24 A dear friend suggested that I write a blog post on how we are trying to
All the new age advancements and information overload can’t hold a candle to our ancient wisdom. And no, this is not a religious post. Sample this – All temples in India typically have a Kalasam (or Kalash) at the top of temple towers. (Wait, is this a religious post? No,
Let me start by saying that I didn’t even know what the word “homesteading” meant. So, when I was searching high and low about what this desire of mine to grow my food, cook from scratch and the desire to live a life of self-sufficiency meant, that’s when this word
