#TamilNadu #Goodfood #Naturalfarming
Farmer and musician Krishna McKenzie runs a six-acre permaculture farm in Tamil Nadu’s Auroville. He grows around 150 varieties of plants using natural farming techniques. Many of them are local and edible wild plants, considered to be ‘super-foods’ with medicinal properties.
A permaculture farm has different layers of vegetation and a diverse range of crops. This biodiversity provides nutritional security and a climate-resilient farming system.
McKenzie said his farming practices are inspired from those of Japan’s Zen master farmer Masanobu Fukuoka, famous for his experiments with natural farming techniques.
A healthy soil is the first requirement of natural farming, according to McKenzie. One of the sustainable farming practices used by him include non-tillage, in which soil is not distributed by the process of tilling.
McKenzie mixes leave and crop residues to maintain soil health. These biomass components decompose and work as soil nutrients. He also abhors the use of machinery, generally used in traditional farming.
“The first step of natural farming is returning organic matter back to soil,” according to McKenzie.
Flowers, fruits, vegetables, oilseeds, cereals and millets are grown by him this way.
To financially support his farm, McKenzie also provides services to the local population. This includes running a popular restaurant and a weekly subscription-based basket service.
McKenzie started a farm-to-plate restaurant in 2011. The restaurant’s motto is to promote and serve the local bio-region’s delicacies.
With his basket service, McKenzie gives customers the option to subscribe and make advance payments for the same.
McKenzie believes the way we grow and consume food is a major cause of global warming. Industrialised food production, transportation and distribution worldwide are responsible for at least one-fourth of total greenhouse emissions.
As a teen, he went to J Krishnamurti School in the United Kingdom, where he discovered his passion for farming and a life close to nature. He wanted to live close to nature and grow his own food. A school teacher inspired him to go to Auroville.
When he eventually reached there in the 1990s, he fell in love with Tamil Nadu. He then began his ‘Solitude Farm’ along with other young residents in 1996.
His fellow farmers left after some time but McKenzie stayed on, gradually implementing permaculture in ‘Solitude Farm’.
Around three million farmers currently practise permaculture across 140 countries.
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pura vida!! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUa7oVbG1SqcdQJrwN0EXuZzFYldr-Gmi
Lo! But we Indians are going overseas for a living.
The saying in Tamil holds good for us "mutratthu mullail manamillai.
Amazing video! He is "truly living the dream", "truly living the life!"
😊😊😊🥰
that add-on fake Indian accent.. is funny on a white man XD why you trolling man?
What a good space and resources conservation of fruits and vegetables
Beautiful & Blissful ❤
Cool
Dude's energy is out of the charts
loved this video immensely. he is true and amazing
I thought you are Jack Black
This may is truly living his life!!! I'm a bit envy 😅
Hat's off to your sincere endeavour and hardwork . Mother nature shall reward you for this act.
mind blown, hope to visit this place and meet Mr.McKenzie when at Pondi
Head is down for our aford
Mr. McKenzie, while finding a new way to live worldy life , you lost the eternal life. please go back to the Alpha love so you do not sadden the one who redeemed you..
To the person reading this: Even though I don’t know you, I wish you the best of what life has to offer ❤
👍👍🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🌹🌹🌹
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Coming next Saturday 10th June ❤❤❤
How does he earn money to sustain?
Beautiful place far from mainland and biharis..Heaven😍😍
You are an inspiration to many sir.
Awesome! He is even wearing a dhoti
Bonjour, je suis de la Guyane française et nous avons ici les mêmes plantes que vous mais nous ne connaissons pas toutes ces différentes utilisations. Pourriez vous me les transmettre en français svp ?
he doesnt sound english
HATS OFF TO AN OUTSTANDING PERSONALITY….! HUGE MOTIVATION THANKYOU SIR
RESPECT TO YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART
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Indian English doesn't worry about HYPHENS. We once parked our car in Pondicherry (Puducherry) in a space marked CAR FREE ZONE. I thought it meant that cars can park free there!!! Instead we had to spend two hours at the local police station, pay a fine, and get our rental car back! Now, CAR-FREE ZONE, I surely would have known what that meant. Stupid sign: the police should have had a sign easy to understand: NO CAR PARKING. Is that too much to ask??????? 🙂
Hello sir I m first viewer
Inspiring ✨