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Important Announcements & Updates
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Understanding Soil Health is Critical. We’re Happy To Help! |
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Volunteer Day @ The Tamarind Valley Collective |
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A lovely update from a 10 year old farm that worked out |
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As always, we’re at hello@beforest.co or Sunith +91 91672 70272 or Sameer +91-98451-80207
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Here’s today’s weather map of India, to kick off a newsletter about some very pertinent topics and updates.
It’s deep into the monsoon season, and there’s hardly any clouds or rain!
This is something that should worry us all. The ecosystem is broken, and the effects are not “a few decades away” anymore, as we have seen in Chennai, and across Maharashtra and elsewhere. Even Kerala!
This is precisely the kind of thing we set out to solve (should’ve started much, much, earlier) and that you have an opportunity to help with, participate in, and create an island-of-sanity option for yourself.
So, some updates.
Poomaale – the Wilderness Collective in Coorg.
- The detailed contour survey is nearly done – we’re starting to do a tree survey this week.
- A team is in place and tasks planned for the monsoon underway.
- The place has seen a few showers and the stream’s flowing thick and nice.
- We’re signing up the next lot of members at the current prices.
Alphonso By The Lake – 70km from Bangalore.
- We have 5 members in the seed community, and are looking for 3 more for this to be a go!
- The deadline for the above is July 3rd.
- A lot of folks have seen the property, so we’re staying optimistic
The Hyderabad Collective
- The earlier location has been abandoned for now, given a breakdown in negotiations
- We’re close to closing a 100+ acre space 21km from the Ring Road, in a pretty, hilly landscape. We’re accepting 10000/- as a seed community commitment for this. The final price for a 1.5 acre option is likely to be in the 38.x – 40.x range, with a 650 sqft home as usual.
Other Efforts
- Beforest is helping Nrityagram, the dance school outside Bangalore, become self sufficient in growing their own food, with help from their own community. We’ve already done the earthworks, and started to organize the community effort and volunteering.
- We’ve adopted JungleBox, an enthusiast effort to encourage and help folks do a DIY balcony/terrace/community garden. We’ll soon be launching AskBeforest to help kickstart a community, provide help and resources for this.
- We’re also helping a group in HSR Layout convert a nearly abandoned park into a healthy ecosystem with food growing as well.
Collectives 1-2-3
Many of you have asked us about what collectives are, how do they get formed etc. So we wrote it up – here’s the links that describe all of this :
As always, we’re available at hello@beforest.co and at Sameer +91-98451-80207 or Sunith +91-91672-70272
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We got covered in The Hindu Metroplus today!! It’s truly heartening to see the interest in sustainable farming and living go mainstream.
“According to the BeForest team, the core ideology of sustainability has taken a back seat in the interest of aggressive growth, which has resulted in urban centres being the primary drivers of the economy. It’s the toxic cycle we’ve become far too familiar with: the ever-increasing urban population vacuums natural resources from rural and peri-urban zones, rendering them degraded over time. In fact, this whole she-bang has brought about water and food security issues.”
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The Question about Value and RoI
We get asked the ROI question on growing food a lot. On the value a farm will have in the future. Folks often confuse value with valuation.
When the market moves into anything – food, water, whatever – it tends to create real/perceived scarcity because in that is better economic value and price. Good ecosystems and food forests create abundance. There’s no market in Tulsi, for instance. Most have a plant at home and we pluck and eat it. Did that mean Tulsi has no value? There was no market for Jamun and guava a fee decades ago either. They probably had better nutrition and value! If everyone eventually grew their food, there would be no market for it, but a lot better value for everyone if they ate healthier and better. |
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