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Wisdom of the uncivilized crowds
Picture this: A remote indian village in the Ganges delta a few hundred years ago. The farmer starts his day by letting his flock of ducks into his irrigated fields. The water from the river brings with it, besides nutrients and alluvium, some unwanted (for the crops) pests too. But that is not a problem - the ducks will keep the pests in control. ( Read more... ) -
Bulk update
I call this a bulk update because I haven't written on this blog since Aug 2009. I'd like to blame it on twitter for allowing me to keep folks updated without having to sit and find time to write lengthy blog entries.
So here are some updates, in the order of significance:- Deepti and I invested 50% of our genes into a beautiful girl baby (and I ( Read more... )
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NYTimes mis-information on Peak Oil
The NYTimes carried an Op-Ed column, contributed to by an Oil Consultant, that poorly attempted to "debunk" the myths of peak oil by making use of nothing but mockery. Of course, there is an ongoing open thread on discussing this very article and in the usual TOD style, the comments speak for themselves!
I was reminded of how the "Intelligent Design ( Read more... ) -
Caste Away
We recently constructed a Rain water harvesting pond at our farm. The construction took 6 long days of which the first 4 days I happened to be there to oversee the acitvities. It was a fun filled activity - needed operations planning, materials/people management and more importantly making optimal use of the expensive JCB (oh and I got a cool ( Read more... ) -
Wannabe natural-farmers meetup at Cubbon Park - June 13
A bunch of Permaculturists / zero-farming enthusiasts will meet tomorrow in Bangalore. There is no specific agenda. This is more of a get to know each other meeting besides the common theme that all participants are interested in some form or other of sustainable farming.
Venue: Cubbon Park M.G.Road entrance (opp. Jewels de Paragon building)
Start ( Read more... ) -
Organic farming, certification and the Poor Indian Farmer
In my 1 week vacation at Thanjavur, I basked in the glory of so many birds and insects and night-sky stars, walked distances, talked to a lot of people besides catching the typical cold that I tend to catch everytime I go to the country side.
I met one Mr.Meenakshi Sundaram of the Tamil Nadu Organic Certification Department (TNOCD) in Thanjavur. In ( Read more... ) -
Garden Update: Meet my new friend
Bad news first...
1. The rats are back. 12 of the 22 beans plants have been destroyed completely by the rats. And like in horror movies, it started with the nursery being removed over night and that was terrifying... and since then one plant is gone every week and I'm left here standing helpless. The remaining beans have started yielding. However, ( Read more... ) -
Peak Oil Unconference
[Update sunson.in now has its own wiki. Let me know if you're interested in speaking. I'll give you access and you can prepare your content on the wiki.]
Oil has powered us for the past 100 years and brought us here to this day when fish can be caught in Argentina, get filleted in China and be back in the Mal-Warts of USA. Oil built roads, built the ( Read more... ) -
LJ, Twitter divorce
My LJ account will now be tweet-pollution free going forward. My twitter account will continue to exist but you won't see the daily twitter updates appear on this journal anymore.
There are only three reasons for this:
1. Makes my other what-i-want-the-world-to-read-and-comment-on blog posts difficult to navigate to. Too much noise from twitter. ( Read more... ) -
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- 20:43 Here's my own cocktail recipe: 1xRum + 1xCoconut water + 1xCola + 0.25xMango Juice == an awesome chocolatey flavoured drink! #