What do Aurovilians want to eat? What do they think of Auroville grown and produced food compared to food grown and produced outside Auroville? What are the overall community food requirements? How ar...

Home gardening contributes to household food security by providing direct access to food that can be harvested, prepared and fed to the family, often on a daily basis. Gardening may be done with virtu...

Agricultural experiments in Auroville are a synthesis of many different methods, such as Biodynamics, Permaculture, Organic farming, Effective Microorganisms (EM), Vermiculture, etc, and of progressi...

Discipline is a community situated in the northern greenbelt of Auroville. Like all other greenbelt communities, it started on bare earth, 27 years ago. Today, the area is lush. Discipline consists pa...

There are many traditional recipes of fermented plant material, with or without any additional preparations, some to be used as liquid manures, some for pest control. EM-FPE makes use of this traditio...

Effective Microorganism is used in agriculture in multiple ways. It is applied to achieve a high germination rate of seeds in nurseries, it is used in compost to increase soil fertility and it serves ...

Composting with Effective Microorganism has some advantages; it saves energy and manpower since there is no need to turn over the heap, it regulates the temperature, it is easy to handle and available...

Eating locally grown, freshly harvested food is the basis of a healthy diet and is recommended by health-care professionals. A Community Supported Agriculture offers the opportunity for the end-consum...

AuroAnnam Farm is part of an overall strategy for the promotion of organic and sustainable farming in Auroville. Visitors and students at AuroAnnam Farm gain insight into general practices of organic ...

It seems that the pest controlling properties of many plants can be enhanced if fermented with EM. Neem tree leaves form the base of all EM-fermented plant extracts. This method of pest control is eff...