New Tshirts for Buddha Garden 20180604

Giri came in with some new Buddha Garden Tshirts that he had just got printed.  They come in three other colours as well as the blue he is wearing.

It rained again today so was able to get more clips for the new video about the rain.

Diverse jobs 20180603

Rushed out to use my new camera when it started to rain this afternoon.  That brought out all the insects and I got bitten on the end of my little toe by what I think was a scorpion ant.  It was very painful although after I walked around for a bit this evening it seemed to get better.

The clips didn’t look too good on my software and it seemed they had the same problems with shake as when I used the phone.  But on a big screen it looked really good. So I will have to explore that a bit more.

The picture is of a poster about neem pesticide.  I spent some time looking through the old papers of the ‘No More Pesticide’ campaign and this is one I found.

New camera 20180602

Very pleased indeed that my new camera arrived today.  Unfortunately I can’t start using it until its charged up the  battery which is taking a long time.

This is the first time in a long time that I have been so excited about getting something new like this. 

New dresses 20180601

Miraculously I finally managed to get my new dresses today.  The shop is right the other side of Auroville and in this hot weather I often don’t feel like cycling.  So have to wait until I can hitch a lift with someone going that way.

Still feeling rather upset about having to delete the video about making the moringa powder.  But we can’t show people in Buddha Garden making food items with a low standard of hygiene.

Deleting my last video 20180531

Was very upset today when Vivek said I had to delete the last video on Youtube.  It shows Mani handling food items etc and not wearing the right clothes or doing it the right way.  I agree that this is something we don’t want to show – but I am still upset because I had put a lot of work into that video.  Ah well.

We have also got to get ourselves re-registered as a food processor which means filling out lots of forms with photos etc.  The picture today is the picture I took of me and which has been sent off to get printed.  Oh how I wish we had kept up the registration that we did five years ago.  We allowed it to lapse and now we have to do it all over again.

Back to the soil 20180530

We started clearing the two research beds in the Souryan garden today which meant that we had to do some soil tests.  This picture is of Rajan lifting the soil out of the bed.

I really must try to get him a proper device for doing this when I go to the UK.  It would be so much easier and more precise and I don’t think it is that expensive.

Beans, beans, beans 20180529

I have had several weeks spending a lot of times with beans. We’ve had six research beds growing beans and the amount we have had is incredible.  Every morning for weeks now my first job of the morning has been to go and pick beans.

This means that we’ve also had lots of been seed to process as well.  I don’t think I will mind when the beans stop producing and I can do something else.