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Sustainable Farming Guide

This blog is a guide on Sustainable Farming. It covers :Principles of Sustainability for a food forest. Different natural farming practices to achieve environmental and financial sustainability. Role of indigenous seeds in sustainable farming. Role of local climatic conditions in farm planning. Sustainable farming success stories. Sustainable farming business models. Farming practices and its impact on the environment. Natural pest management techniques. Soil and water conservation.

A Bee's Diary - Volume 4

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- August 02, 2021

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A Bee's Diary - Volume 1

- July 08, 2021

How Damaging are the Forest Fires for the Environment?

- June 28, 2021

Click on the link to watch complete video on You Tube: https://youtu.be/MoVVfqXvEIc The recent fires in australia were caused due to extreme temperature and draught, 11 million hectares (110,000 sq km or 27.2 million acres) of bush, forest and parks across Australia has burned. The fires in the Amazon region in 2019 were unprecedented in their destruction. Thousands of fires had burned more than 7,600 square kilometres by October that year.Yet the degradation of the Amazon rainforest has profound consequences from climate change to global health. Forest Fires, are common and rampant during summers. There are many wrong notions and misunderstandings amongst the villagers regarding the fires. Natural forest fires can not occur in India as the temperatures do not go so high. That goes to conclude, all the fires are caused by humans. Many times deliberately and rest of the times due to human negligence. Forests are the lungs of the world, they provide oxygen to humans, besides

Why Gir is the New Jersy Cow of India?- Save Indigenous Cows of India

- July 08, 2021

We love to coin words, most recent being A2 milk, Organic, ZBNF, Biodynamic, Permaculture, Slow food, Hydrophonics , Gluten free etc. etc. enough to get a common man dizzy while making a food decision. Currently, we are experiencing, what can be termed as the second “White Revolution” (read milk) as opposed to Green Revolution (read chemical farming). In past 3 years, we have had many young 30 some things (invariably an IT professional or a fresh agri graduate looking for business opportunity and a close to nature experience as a perk) visiting our Gau Shala and office. Their knowledge of cow starts with GIR and ends there. GIR has become the undisputed queen of the COW world. How? Well its just the clever marketing. As usual the non suspecting fell for it. GIR is beautiful, she has the most amazing set of eyes which will melt anyone. But show me an ugly Cow or an animal. So what is special about this one? She belonged to the Gir forest in Gujarat. Alright. Since the conversation