Mexican Sunflower is one of the first couple of biomass producing plants that we introduced in our farm when we started farming. The other being Glyiricidia – more about that in a later post. Adding biomass to the soil quickly is the best way to kickstart soil health regeneration. The reason for this that once…
Category: Natural Farming
What would we do without you, Suli?!
I scrolled through my instagram feed and i realised that i had missed posting about Suli much. I have failed to dedicate as much attention as he deserved on our social media space. He is the individual, next to my parents, who has spent the most amount of time at the farm with us, physically…
November & December 2022 update | Vaanavil Farm
Hello! Hope you all had great holidays and a fresh start to the new year! Even though Sudhakar and I live far away from busy cities, we still needed a tiny break to slow down and relax and that’s what we did with our parents to welcome the new year 🙂 We have decided to…
November 2022 Update | Vaanavil Farm and Food Forest
Hello! We witnessed one of the driest summers this year with very poor Southwest monsoon spells. The grazing fields had little to no grasses for the cows to eat. We ended up buy haystack after eagerly waiting several weeks for rain. The north east monsoon has also started late this year but we started getting…
Farm Update | August 2022
Calving season has finally ended with two calves born back to back in the last week of August. We are now selling curd locally at Agasthiyarpuram. We will be using the revenue from curd and sale of milk from Kanmani to fund the construction of the thatch shelter for our calves. Our plans to construct…
நாட்டுமாடு / देसी गाय and Farm update – July 2022
It’s calving season here in our farm. We welcomed two beautiful female calves last month. We’ve named them Parvathi, Gowri’s calf and Ponmani, Kanmani’s calf. It is so much fun watching three calves jump around the cowshed and grow up together! We wanted to share a photo of all three together but they start running…
நாட்டுமாடு / देसी गाय and Farm update – June 2022
June was a relatively slow month at the farm. The cows had slightly tough time grazing because despite the rains upto May mid, the grasses had all dried off after the delayed agninakshatram. The South West monsoon which brings the occasional drizzles also got delayed because of which the month of June was unusually hot….
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…
Farm Tour & Conversation – Every Saturday
Hello everyone As some of you may know, we have been hosting a farm tour every Saturday. We started this in August last year with the objective of demonstrating that it is possible to regenerate a land with smart agro-ecological practices in a short span of 4-5 years. We have been getting a constant stream…
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