Ecological Farming course
| Event Start Date: 2nd September 2017 | Event End Date: 8th September 2017 | Event Venue: Santiniketan, West Bengal |
We are happy to let you know that we are organizing the 4th Exchange on Ecological Farming at Smell of the Earth Farm, near Santiniketan, West Bengal. This course will help you design a small urban space or a small farm so that you can step out of the chemical food cycles, provide wholesome organic food for your family and possibly create a small farm-based business. Here are details of the course:
Duration: 7 days (September 2-September 8, 2017)
Content:— Introduction to ecological farming — Introduction to how to design a farm using Permaculture principles — Hands-on introduction to natural farming of vegetables and a few major crops, composting, pest control — Introduction to perennial tree planting and management — Water management Accommodation & Food: Basic and shared rooms at the farm. Basic vegetarian meals from farm produce.
Cost: INR 15,000 per person. Includes all food and accommodation for the 7 days.
Trainers: Aparajita grew up in Kolkata and went to Presidency College and the University of Calcutta. She did her PhD in English Literature from the University of Kentucky. Debal has a degree in Production Engineering from Jadavpur University, and has had a career in software development for over 16 years. While staying in the US, Aparajita and Debal became interested in the issues of food toxicity, biodiversity and seed rights. Upon returning from the US in 2011, they visited various sustainable farming initiatives in India, and started a small Community Supported Agriculture Farm (Smell of the Earth) on borrowed land near Kolkata with the hopes of spreading awareness about local and chemical-free food systems. They moved out of the city in 2014 to set up a 2-acre ecological family farm with natural dwellings from ground up near Santiniketan, where they live permanently with their daughter, work as farmers, and connect with the surrounding community to spread the message of ecological lifestyles. Their farm has no permanent employees, and is not funded externally. Aparajita and Debal are both certified Permaculture Designers. Debal has also designed the natural buildings on the farm.
If you are interested, please give us a call at 9748831271/9331
Smell of the Earth is a small-scale family farm designed according to Permaculture principles to meet the food needs of a small family. It is a two-acre, three-year-old farm,currently growing rice, vegetables, mustard, potatoes and other diverse crops organically. Please find us here: www.facebook.co