Hello Friends,
When your trial Natural Farm is establishing itself there is not much one can report at short frequencies. Nothing we do will make the plants grow faster than they are genetically coded to do. One has to wait patiently till they grow and produce and see how the out turn is and what kind of pests have attacked during the various phases of their life cycles. These too vary as we have mixed annuals and perennials with different maturing time frames. Well we are happy to report that our Natural Farm has overcome most issues without the assistance of any chemical fertilizers or pesticides and have started producing. We have used preventive herbal sprays with a concoction of leaf extracts and cow urine and so on for managing pests. For fertilizers we have used farm generated micro organic mixtures using Jaggery, powdered lentils, cow urine and cow dung for accelerating decomposition of green material grown in situ to cover the soil and create conducive micro climates. See the video below and judge for yourself how things have turned out when we went back to Nature. You will observe that we have followed a No Till - No Weeding policy but plants have grown healthily among the lush weed growth. That is our ground cover preventing the scorching sun from killing our friendly earth worms and fungi and other micro organisms in our soil. The more of them we have the more healthy our soils will be and hence the more healthy our plants will become. It has been a long wait of over twelve months to see how things turn out and seeing the results we are now confident and ready to expand the area of cultivation and move on to further development.
A New Beginning
Bye for now.
Rajesh
