Our journey towards eco friendly and self sustainable living.
We(Myself and Keshav) both attended Jeevan Vidya (JV) workshop around 10 years ago along with our families. JV teaches us to be in harmony with Self, Family, Society and Nature. It gives us the freedom to be SELF empowered not just by reading or listening to philosophy but rather by validating the philosophy with SELF and experience it in reality. Read about JV here
We started reflecting our own lives to apply JV philosophy and it was very difficult in the beginning but slowly we were able to apply and reap them benefits.
Journey - First Step - Land Purchase
Our journey towards Natural Farming started when Keshav had bought 6 acres of land in Yalal-Vishwanathpur village in Vikarabad District, Telangana, India. He has searched so many places around the Hyderabad to buy agricultural land and finally found it in Yalal. He went there multiple weekends, made some connections with locals and interacted with people in the village, stayed there, ate food with them, discussed with kids, youth, middle aged and old aged people on various topics with genuine interest of having eco friendly life in that village. Most of the people discouraged him buying the land he had chosen as it was a barren land but he himself had courage and confidence to transform it, hence bought it.
Changes - Transformation Begins
Keshav had faced many challenges in identifying right boundaries for the land he wanted to purchase but he finally made peace with all neighbors and agreed on the boundaries so that he can start with fencing work, which was essential in protecting the land.
First year, land was given to Ashappa, who cultivated groundnuts but end up with losses.
Second year, Keshav took charge to do natural farming himself.
Fencing
Borewell
House construction
Rainwater harvesting pits
Plant sampling - Lemon, Gauva, Banana, Custard apple
Flowers plants
Purchasing Tractor and some tools
Purchasing 4 acres for Santhosh
Living there during Covid-19
Moving cow Lakshmi and Basava there
Natural farming - Navara rice, Donda thota
Good Support from family
Buying more cows - Sahiwal breed selection
Buying bull?
Bull driven oil training and building the Small scale organization
Vijaram Lectures, following his videos, books
Subhash Palekar Zero budget farming
Jeevan Vidya Saha astitva philosophy
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