Principles of Sustainable Food Growing

– a series of workshops about growing healthy food

Priya & Vivek

We are willing to put on workshops for groups (minimum three) who would like to do them.

 

Course Description
These workshops will explore the principles of sustainable food growing which will include hands on experience, talks and discussion. It will start with the introductory workshop which is held every Monday throughout the year and provides an introduction to sustainable food growing as we practice it in Buddha Garden.

 

Each day from Tuesday to Friday further workshops will explore the various elements of food growing as follows:

  • Tuesday - soil
  • Wednesday - plants
  • Thursday - water and animals
  • Friday - pests and weeds

Each workshop will be complete in itself. There is a special price for those who would like to come to the whole series.

These workshops are for anyone who would like a practical introduction to the practice of sustainable food growing or who would like to know about the particular challenges of growing organic food in Auroville and India.

 

We start work at 6.15am each day Monday to Friday. You are welcome to come early and help with the work before the workshops start.

 

Dates and Times
The workshop series will be given on the second and fourth week of each month of December 2008, January, February and March 2009.

 

December workshops will start on Monday 8th, Monday 22nd

January workshops will start on Monday 5th, Monday 19th

February workshops will start on Monday 9th,Monday 23rd

March workshops will start on Monday 10th, Monday 24th

 

On Monday the workshop will start at 10.00am and end at lunch time.

On other days the workshops start at 7.45am with a break for breakfast at 9.00am. We will recommence at 9.45am and end at around 10.30am.

 

Cost
The introductory workshop costs Rs150 and includes a short booklet
Other workshops cost Rs250/session.

The whole series of workshops costs Rs1000 and includes a file and work sheets


Venue
Buddha Garden Community Farm

To get to Buddha Garden go past the Visitors Centre on your left and carry on to the black top road. Turn left and continue up the road until you come to a sign to Buddha Garden on your right. This is just past a large pond on your right. Follow the signs on the path that goes in front of a small temple and then through a gate. Once through the gate go down the path until you can go no further and you will be in Buddha Garden.

 

Registration
phone 94432 22653 (mornings)

email priya@auroville.org.in or

at the Introductory Workshop on Mondays

 

Presenter

Priya & Vivek

Priya came to Auroville nearly twelve years ago with her two daughters Emma and Rachael who are now studying in the UK. Prior to coming to Auroville Priya lived in Malaysia, Yemen and Malawi in Africa. For eighteen months she lived on a farm near Kodaikanal in Tamil Nadu where her interest in organic farming was first awakened. It took her five years to find the land for Buddha Garden in Auroville which she set up in 2000.

 

Priya hopes that Buddha Garden is not only a farm but also a place of education, transformation and creativity both for herself and those who come to help.
As well as farming Priya writes and paints.

Vivek, came to Auroville four years back after finishing his studies in Agriculture. Vivek is carrying out several experiment on water consumption, weed control, production in organic farming, seed savings etc. Vivek is coordinator of center for sustainable farming , an educational and research wing of Buddha garden to help local and Auroville farmers and collaborate with various student for their projects and research in agriculture.