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Issue No: 310, May 2015

Farming in Auroville: the tensions of growing and selling

Murthy with Ayarpadi’s red pepper harvest On a steamy April afternoon, I motor along a narrow sandy path behind the Tibetan Pavilion and discover Ayarpadi Farm tucked away just beyond the Inuit Inuksuk structure in the International Zone. Farm manager Murthy takes me for a tour through chilli plants and vegetable plots, past cow sheds and verdant banana trees, and tells me that he joined Auroville 27 years ago, inspired by its ideals of peace and tolerance. As three generations of his family and some workers sit outside the house, splitting pulses that will satiate Aurovilians’ appetites, Murthy says he started doing milking “on the side” whilst he worked in the Water Service for many years, and then slowly built it up. “The Water Service was a good job,” he says, “but I couldn’t do farming as well.” He became part of the farming community at Horizon, and expanded his stock to 15 cows. When Auroville’s schools said they wanted more milk, he told the Farm Group that he...
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Issue No. 310, May 2015

  • The Challenges of Farming in Auroville
  • Growing Food, Growing People
  • Farming in Auroville: the tensions of growing and selling
  • Experiments in Hydroponics
  • Growing a Green City
  • "The Flute Must Be Played Through You"
  • What is Really Going on Here
  • My Pumpkin Roof
  • Village Youth Reach High
  • The ADCERRA Dental Team Goes to Gujarat
  • The English of Savitri Volume 1
  • Klaus Groujean (Passing)
  • Johan Defour (Passing)

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