Farmlog - week 3 updates

This weekend too we managed to visit the farm and here are the updates. I must say, all the veggies are doing great and entire farm is turn green now. This time also visited the natural pond at the back of farm which is filled with the recent rains. Also got a chance to meet another fellow Farmizenian and we talked about the excitement of good germination at his plot.

You may follow my previous farmlog here "How we became community farmers"

Meanwhile Farmizen had been posting exciting pictures of harvest from their various other farms and we cannot wait to see our day come soon :)

These marigold (Zendu) flowers welcome us at the farm

Green green all around

Bottle gourd germination

Baby Spinach at our plot

Marigold saplings around the plot

Tomatoes seem to be slightly affected by pests but sure it will fight back

Deeweeding at progress

This is random click of some junglee plant, it looks like cherry, but surely not edible

Joy of spotting lady bug (in real, for 6 year old who has learnt to color it )

Beautiful flowers (name?? leave it in comments if you know these)

Scenic pond behind the farm

Yellow Lotus/water lilly signing off as we leave back

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How we became community farmers!

For past some days we were in search of ways to support our sustainable leaving goals and actively researching on community farming options here in Bangalore. At home after most of my balcony garden plants and specially veggies became rodent and pigeon food, I still had not lost my hopes and still wanted to go ahead and grow our own fresh food. That is when we landed with this platform called Farmizen! Though we did not find many reviews of Farmizen around, their social handles were showing good progress and so we thought of giving it a try. So two weeks back we registered on to Farmizen as community farmers with many like minded farmers. They have multiple plots per farm and the app gives you a lot of flexibility in choosing what you want to grow. On the other days the farmer takes care of your farm and you can plan visits and work around your farm on weekends. You also can see growth and harvest and other activities at your farm through the app.

Farmlog: Week 8, 9, 10 updates: Some more new members on farm and a heart break

Week 8 again harvest was a good amount of Methi, Spinach, coriander, red and green amranthus. This time as the methi was over grown, we also had lot of methi seed pods and I decided to put them to good use. So tried this subji( side dish) using methi seed pods and it turned out to be very good and not at all bitter! Lots of Methi Methi seeds pods Methi Seed pods dry subji Green and Red Amaranths, Coriander and Spinach You can find the recipe soon on kitchenkatta . I also made a big batch of kasuri methi( dry methi leaves) which can be used in many ways to make paratha, daal or used in tadaka. Kasuri Methi So now you know when you have lots of methi and seed pods, you can actually make much more!! That was almost last harvest of this methi batch. Next Saturday we managed to visit the farm, but this visit was a bit special with a hop on to Farmizen's another farm, Blue Jamoon. As it was a Jeevamru

Joys of first harvest and 5 little friends!! - week 5 updates

L ast week could not visit the farm, and was seeing updates from fellow Farmizen'ian about the first harvests and had already scheduled our farm visit for this week. As we approached the farm, I felt butterflies in my stomach! All the plots are growing really good and it was a bliss seeing around the fresh shades of green after recent rains. Our methi has grown really well and though not in it's full growth we could harvest some and I must say it was the most satisfying moment. Methi Greens Trying my hand at deweeding Also as thining of radish was going on, so could get our hands on some of radish greens as well. (If you wondering what to do with radish greens, check of the subji recipe here ) Radish Greens This visit also got the meet our farmer's family and we had a good conversation on stages of crop, it's care and also learn to identify many more plants. And the little one was quick to make friends with our

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