Hello everyone! As you might know, we have been raising non-descript indigenous cows at our farm in Vikramasingapuram, Tirunelveli district since 2019. We now have 30 cows in our farm. This is a crowfunding call for their upkeep. Please read on if you would like to contribute. Our average monthly revenue from livestock rearing is…
Category: Livestock Rearing
Why producing Pure Ghee matters now more than ever?
I have written several blogs on the topic of ghee. you would be wondering if i am obsessed with ghee. You can head to the bottom of this blog to check out my older blogs. I am and I am not. I am not obsessed with consuming ghee. I am obsessed with producing it the…
Why Are Indigenous Cow Dairy Products Expensive?
Recently, the A1 vs A2 beta-casein debate was reignited when the FSSAI issued a notification requiring food business operators to stop labeling dairy products as A2. However, due to significant backlash, the FSSAI quickly withdrew this advisory. Beta-caseins are proteins found in all dairy products except ghee. Since ghee is pure fat with no protein…
Why you should not listen to Masala Lab and why you should choose A2 over A1 milk & milk products?
Krish Ashok (@_masalalab) made a video in 2022 about how there is very little difference between the milk of native cows and non-native cows. TLDW : there is no scientific proof that A1 beta casein, the protein found in the milk of cows cross bred between indigenous and exotic breeds, has any adverse impact on…
Ghee : A1 vs A2 – Does the protein in dairy alone matter?
You guys seem to be loving the ghee that we are selling on our store. The ghee is made from milk from native cows at iLink farms, Sivasailam, now in Tenkasi district, Tamil Nadu. The breeds are Gir, Sahiwal, Vechur and non-descript cows of Tirunelveli origins. I never imagined it to get so popular, especially…
நாட்டுமாடு / देसी गाय and Farm update – May 2022
Hello, We ended the month of May with a sweet note of welcoming Vennila, our new baby calf ❤️🌝 Vennila’s arrival was a pleasant surprise to everyone at the farm, including her caretaker Prema akka. We knew that her mother, Gowri, was pregnant but we had no clue that she was about to deliver. The…
நாட்டுமாடு / देसी गाय and Farm update – April 2022
The month of April saw a lot of evening showers making the summer tolerable for the cows, humans and other animals. Even in the scorching heat, there is still greenery around for the cows to graze. We replanted ginger and turmeric in our existing zero till raised beds and also in the new beds that…
நாட்டுமாடு / देसी गाय update – March 2022
Hello everyone! It is getting hotter every day and all the wild grasses had almost gotten fully consumed. The last 3-4 days have brought us rain and the grasses will start growing again. This is the summer month when will start chopping the perennial napier and super napier cow grass that we had planted over…
நாட்டுமாடு / देसी गाय update – February 2022
In March 2021, we raised funds from our friends, family and well wishers to buy, protect and raise cows native to Tirunelveli, of the Thenpandi (தென்பாண்டி) breed. We have been sending monthly updates to them the last 12 months. This month onwards, we are going to send the update to the followers of our blog…
Our Fountainhead of Inspiration : Prabhanjan Farm
When we bought this land at Vikramasingapuram, I faced buyers remorse and therefore several sleepless nights for several weeks. We were a family who had uprooted our comfortable city life and were planning to set up shop at a town that we had not even visited earlier. When we settled down and started to meet…
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