Foodlink farm

This is a picture of the four people involved with the starting  Foodlink farm.  The Farm group has had this land for two to three years but nothing has happened - mainly because we don't have proper funds for the well, pump and store room which are the minimum infrastructure needed to start a farm.  Finally Vivek and I thought we should do something just to get some activity going on the land.

The problem is that there is a dispute over the fencing at the other end of the land from where this group are pictured.  The owner of the land next to Auroville land wants the fence two feet inside the Auroville boundary and Auroville is refusing to do this.  It will start a precedent so that every other neighbour will want the same.  The problem is that herds of cows come in which makes it impossible to grow anything.

We therefore decided to make an internal fence around a small area where we are going to plant an orchard. The holes have been dug for the pillars that are lying on the ground and we had the meeting to talk about how we are going to plant the trees.  Since there is no water we will have to have it brought in some how and we want to have different methods of irrigation on show.  Eventually the farm will function as an information hub about farming in Auroville and the bio-region.

Once we have something growing we are going to take people around the land as a way of raising money.  Vivek is also going to do a farm planning course during the first week of January.  I am going to start a blog and eventually put up a website.