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...

  Self assessment of Buddha garden sustainability.  

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...

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...

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...