I made it to the farm. I took a motor rickshaw about 22 kilometers outside of Jaipur. There are 5 families who farm on the land together. They mostly grow a tree fruit called Amla and barley. They also grow some vegetables for their own consumption. They have some biodinamic preparations like manure tea. They also do Agni Hotra ritual fires and then they apply the ash to the farm. When I got to the farm I was greeted by two men and two little girls. There was only one person there who spoke english so there was a lot of gesturing and saying things to each other that we didn't understand. After spending two days and one night on the farm I realised that there really was not much for me to do there. They only work for 1 or 2 hours in the morning and then hang out for the rest of the day. I decided not to stay. The people there were very nice to me. There was more to the farm than what I initially thought when I first walked around. The soil is very dry, it looks like piled up dust. I thought all that was growing was weeds but it turned out there were vegetables hidden in the weeds. All the buildings are simple brick and mud walls with roofs thatched out of barley stalks. They have a camel and several cows. There was a tree behind my room that was full of bright green birds that looked like the type we would keep in a cage in the US. The fallowing pictures are in reverse order of how I took them.
The vegetable cutlets I had for breakfast this morning.
The view from my hotel room in Jaipur.
This is the man who cooked for me at the farm. Chapati and curried vegetable for lunch and hot hot cereal for breakfast.
Not the best picture of me, but note the camel behind me.
A farm worker who showed me around.
These are the squash like vegetables that they eat all the time.
This is the first bottle of water I purified. It works because I haven't gotten sick!
The orchid garden in the Singapore airport.
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Keep up the good work.
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