Buddha Garden didn\u2019t materialise immediately. \u201cI was in Auroville for five or six years when I found the Farm Group, my tribe at the time. I wanted to be part of this group and have a farm.\u201d Her first chance to do green work came in the form of forestry. \u201cA plot of land in Siddhartha Forest came up, just enough for two people, so me and my boyfriend at the time, Derek, moved there.There were parts of the land that were like a lunar landscape, the clay was very hard. We used to hand-pump all of our water, and for watering all those trees, my God. We had to break the clay up. Now there\u2019s a beautiful forest there.That was all Derek\u2019s work.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The seedling for Buddha Garden grew a little while later. \u201cI got this place because I used to come over and get milk for tea, and I would come across this plot of land. Even though I had a tiny vegetable garden in Siddhartha Forest, I knew that I couldn\u2019t grow enough vegetables there. So I went to talk to Herbert, who was running Siddhartha Forest, and asked him if I could use this land to make a vegetable garden. I realised that if I was to run a farm, I would have to live there. It didn\u2019t work for me to treat it like a job. So I moved with my two children in March 2000.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Buddha Garden was born. This \u201cvegetable garden\u201d now has 4.5 acres dedicated to intensive vegetable growing, 2 acres of indigenous orchards, 1.5 acres for water conservation and 1.5 acres of forest.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\nCollective and Organic<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nPriya believes that putting in work is the most important thing, but in particular it\u2019s the work that everyone does together. \u201cWhen I came here, I made certain decisions about the farm. First of all, I wanted it to be collective where the focus is about work. Somehow when you work together, it\u2019s very powerful for me. In Buddha Garden, anybody can come. You come and see, and it\u2019s either something you want to do or you don\u2019t. It\u2019s up to you.\u201d Now after 20 years, Buddha Garden has 4 full time stewards of the farm, including Vivek, one of the few people in India with a PhD in organic farming.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The world is finally taking an active interest in organic farming, and how to implement it successfully to grow food. Besides not using pesticides or fertilizers, Priya approaches organic farming as a holistic way of taking care of all elements of growing food. What I say is that there are six elements of food growing: Soil, Water, Plants, Animals, Insects and Microbes. Now what you have to do is work with those elements in a way that supports the natural processes which you\u2019re using those elements for, which is to grow food.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
People interested in organic farming practices come to Buddha Garden to learn how to do this, but according to Priya, the methods also depend on the person: \u201cThe way you make this symbiotic relationship happen and the way you bring these things together is also about something that\u2019s in you. I cannot teach you to do that. When you have a plot of land, even if it\u2019s just your pots on your balcony, it\u2019s about your sensitivity. What I aim to do when people come here is to help them, first of all, to become more sensitive to the different elements, but also to give them the confidence to know that they can do it too. Because you can do it too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nA Hub for Experimentation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nAs an organic farm, Buddha Garden has also had its share of research projects. One of the recent ones involves water usage, which is a growing concern in the area due to drought and depletion of wells. Vivek, was responsible for this project with the help of a research university.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe started with a number of different vegetables we were growing. The idea is to have an AI (Artificial Intelligence) system and sensors in the soil which tell us how much water is actually in the soil. When the moisture level goes under a certain level, then a signal is sent to the solar system, which pumps the water until again the sensor registers enough water. .Automatically the pump is then turned off through this system. Not only did we save water, we increased production too. It\u2019s very difficult to tell farmers to save water, particularly if they have free electricity like they do here in Tamil Nadu \u2013 they\u2019re almost encouraged to waste water.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Running a farm is not easy but it is definitely rewarding. Priya says that the joy of working at Buddha Garden is \u201cAlways being in contact with nature. I realised that there\u2019s something about working with the soil, and working with nature\u2026 I actually feel it keeps me sane and it keeps me very rooted. It just gives me a lot of joy to grow food, and watch it go off into Auroville.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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