Herbert from Siddhartha Farm is here since 1993. After he arrived he started to work with agriculture which was hardly developed at that time. Promoting organic cultures he started Siddhartha Farm whe...

Windarra Farm, a farm community, started 1998 on 22 acre of land. Managed by Friederike it is a hundred percent organic farm. A broad variety of vegetable like lettuce, rucola, herbs, spinaches, beans...

Discipline Farm is on the northern edge of Auroville's Greenbelt . There are fourteen acres of land on which fruit - coconut, banana, sour sop, papaya, passion fruit, mangos, chikoos and citrus, and v...

An eco-city in the making has to look at and integrate a number of key aspects of a sustainable development. Such key aspects are: environmental restoration, organic agriculture, solar passive archite...

Windarra has large vegetable gardens; orchards with guava, mango, citrus, cashew and sour sop trees; rosella, tennai, and sesame fields; a forest with timber, oil-seed and work trees; and a small fiel...

Sustainable farm needs a sustainable supply of seeds, water and nutrients. Seeds that are grown and saved on the farm develop characteristics that enable them to grow even better in the particular env...

  Composting is the biological process of  breaking down organic material into a humus-like product useful for gardening. At Buddha Garden composting is an important way of recycling organic...

The technique of building and maintaining raised beds for the cultivation of vegetables, is developed under climatological conditions of the South East Coast of India. This is a step-by-step manual of...

Over-irrigation is the number one reason for the overexploitation of groundwater. With free electricity from the government, pumps are often left on 24 hours a day. An organic farmer of Maharashtra ca...

  Self assessment of Buddha garden sustainability.