In Fri's #Resilience chat, we speak with zenrainman and shubha ramachandran of Biome Water, and @erbdex who's a "green follows blue" champion, about the one we've already seen stressed - #water What is the right way to look at this? What can we do? Register: zoom.us/webinar/regist…

If you are curious/keen about #permaculture or #natural #farming - you'll love this conversation at 11am IST tomorrow on Sun 10th May.

The monkeys, and birds, insects and other animals do a far better job of creating a forest than we do - Sandeep/Aranyaani #farming #resilience

It takes about 10 fossil fuel calories to produce and transport each food calorie in the average American diet. I estimated similar for rice across the world. #Permaculture is a sensible, efficient switch, unless we want to continue stealing from the future.

Come over, folks - we'll love to have you over for a weekend!

I get many calls from folks wanting to buy/start a farm, wanting to move away from the city etc. So I thought I'd share the various things these discussions covered for those looking at #farming My views and learnings. YMMV zenx.medium.com/so-you-want-to…

The Gates Foundation has created grant funding for smart digital enabled #innovation in #farming related ideas. Do check out and apply if you're a social entrepreneur. Let us know if you need tech/other help, esp if the idea is ecologically beneficial. gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/smar…

The farm has really become a lovely habitat for so many birds and more!

There's some awesome hikes at The Tamarind Valley Collective. Check them out. There's also a lot of fun and learning about landscape rejuvenation, natural farming. And great organic food! Makes for a lovely camping weekend, no? [email protected] tvc.farm/trekking-trail…

We're up to 55 bird species that we've seen at the farm. Snakes, elephants, wild boar as well. It's truly becoming home for so many as the landscape becomes richer!

The 2 most recent additions to our fellow residents at the farm. The Tickell's Blue Flycatcher and the Indian Pitta #birding #Bangalore #NaturalFarming #Restoration

Our 5th year anniv meetup happened at Ranjan & Reva's home (which is a lesson in living sustainably in itself!) The community that defines TVC is magical, and so was this gathering.

This year water is visible in the stream in May! While some of it is due to the unexpected rain, the soil has also better retained the moisture from last year's because of planting in the riparian area as well as letting the vegetation grow.

There's about 300kgs of deseeded tamarind at the farm. Completely organic, really tangy and good stuff. 250/- a kg. (200/- if you come over for a day trip/weekend stay and take some). Beka?

Life thrives at the natural farms. Today's shots from TVC courtesy Sundar #Wildlife #Birding #Regenerative #Farming all make it a fun day trip! [email protected]

The 9 shades of Indian Pitta. Even rainbow has only 7. Have a lovely week ahead. #IndiAves #BBCWildlifePOTD #ThePhotoHour #SonyAlpha

TVC has always been a fascinating visit from a biodiversity and regeneration perspective - but now there's a solid reason to be there on the 27-28th of Aug [email protected] tvc.farm/tvc-3bs-and-1h…

The "H" bit of the biodiversity weekend at the farm checked! A teeny (and harmless) wolf snake came in to help with the kitchen work and was gently eased back into its natural habitat :)

If you look around, our natural world is drop dead gorgeous. The Tamarind Valley Collective. Day trips and comfortable overnight camping. Home, birding, regenerative farming and great food! [email protected]

There's a couple of memberships open at the collective, if you're interested.