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'Wild Farming' is a work-in-progress to mimic nature.  On a vegetable plot, we will plant maybe 40% non-market plants, some with insect repellent properties, some that are just aromatic to confuse insects, etc., and 60% a mix of, or a variety of, market vegetables and plants.  In our pilot plot here, the market vegetables are ridge gourd, brinjal, bird's eye chili, sweet corn and lady's fingers.  We are expecting some sweet corn next week; "GMO free some more"  Chilies should be plentiful next couple of weeks. Lady's fingers have started to produce. The terung has slowed a bit but we...

The early European explorers to South America must have thought this plant is so important they propagated it where ever they went.  It is now found naturalised in most tropical parts of the world. At our farm it is a valuable part of the natural remedies we have for our chickens. The inflorescence attracts squirrels, tree shrews and civets. Like its cousin the green...

This is the free-range layer model we intend to implement as a social enterprise with rural low-income farmers.  If they sell the eggs themselves at the Farmers’ Market, each egg should fetch...

On the 1st day of this year we saw for the first time a single female Yellow Birdwing,  Troides helena,   flying fast at the perimeter of our farm, as if making an aerial survey. From a...

The farm is a bird sanctuary of sorts. This statement seems to be contradictory at first sight, but our farm  is full of birds of various kinds (about 50 different species at last count).  We can...