2 Bandra Girls Buy a Farm, Part 10 – Crashing Down to Earth
For the past few months, I have passionately been reading up on paddy cultivation and yield in India and abroad. With no first-hand knowledge and no advisors, Aunty Google has …
2 Bandra Girls Buy a Farm, Part 9 – The Hell Highway
Monsoon is magical the time of year when the Konkan region in Maharashtra turns lush green and verdant. As we drive down NH66 from Panvel to Kolad, the vegetation comes …
2 Bandra Girls Buy a Farm, Part 8 -The Bull Run and Running with the Bulls
A new day, a new (mis) adventure! It sounds like a cliché when I say there is never a dull day at the Farm. From the day we set eyes …
2 Bandra Girls Buy a Farm, Part 7 – From the Tamarind Tree to the Scraggly Bush
With apologies to Graham Greene, our farm story has no beginning or end: When I tell you of our adventures, I arbitrarily choose that moment of experience from which to …
2 Bandra Girls Buy a Farm, Part 6 – A Year On…
As we hurtle towards our first anniversary as farmers, it’s time to look back at the rollercoaster year it has been. We’ve had our struggles, triumphs, frustrations, and successes, but …
2 Bandra Girls Buy a Farm, Part 5 – A Popti Party
Readers of my farm posts may have wondered about my long hiatus. No, we haven’t abandoned the farm. It continues to flourish, thank God. And we continue with our travails, …
2 Bandra Girls Buy a Farm, Part 4 – Mithai Diplomacy and Electric Poles
With the planting done and the borewells drilled, we turned to the next task in our greenfield farm project – Electricity! Drilling borewells was all very well, but we needed …
2 Bandra Girls Buy a Farm, Part 3 – Under the Umbar Tree
After a harrowing few months, we finally had our names on the ‘satbara’ [7/12], and we were eager to start farming. While waiting for the transfer to come through, we …
2 Bandra Girls Buy a Farm, Part 2 – Double Trouble
After an insane 4 hour wait at the Tala registration office, where we probably came out on top because we held our patience, we were finally proud owners of 6 …
2 Bandra Girls Buy a Farm
It’s been a long and difficult 15 odd months. The mind-numbing lockdowns, the constant fear, the obsessive sanitizing, the paranoia, the misinformation, the tragedy of losing friends and family, the …