Aman Bagh

Aman Bagh

How to live correctly on this earth. At Aman Bagh, we farm like my grandparents did before 'Green Revolution' farming took over in the 1970s.

Not too far back in time, but light years away from the soil and soul destroying methods of contemporary chemical and commercial agriculture that has led to the loss of India’s many millennia old indigenous farming traditions. We use the peasants ancestral, artisanal methods to maintain healthy soil, produce healthy food, and build health in our farm animals and ourselves. Aman Bagh reclaims a tim

Visiting A Different World 11/06/2023

By Lavanya Maheshwari, Ashoka University. 19 March 2023 Prakritik Kheti My usual routine and schedule in college—like, I’m assuming, everyone else’s—rarely, if ever, involves anything to do with the natural world. It seems to revolve mostly around relationships with screens – the screen I’m currently typing on, the screen of my ostensibly essential mobile phone, the screen of my classroom projector, and so on....

Visiting A Different World By Lavanya Maheshwari, Ashoka University. 19 March 2023 Prakritik Kheti My usual routine and schedule in college—like, I’m assuming, everyone else’s—rarely, if ever, involves anything to do with th…

Contentment 22/12/2022

December 2022. I am content with the alternate ways of doing, thinking and living in nature that have taken shape at Aman Bagh these past ten years of farming in Mangar. These ways that look effortless today unfolded slowly as my co-workers and I engaged with the land and made mistakes. Over these years, my view of the farm as primarily a place to grow healthy food has changed completely....

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Contentment December 2022. I am content with the alternate ways of doing, thinking and living in nature that have taken shape at Aman Bagh these past ten years of farming in Mangar. These ways that look effort…

When The Walls Leaked 24/10/2022

There were unseasonal, unexpected incessant rains on 20th to 22nd September 2022. It rained again, without let-up, between 8th and 10th of October. Traditional Wall Chajjas that Protect Our traditional farm home has two levels of Chajjas all along the length of the walls, which protect the walls from the monsoon rains. Made with stone, brick, cement mortar and mud…...

http://amanbagh.org/2022/10/24/when-the-walls-leaked/

When The Walls Leaked There were unseasonal, unexpected incessant rains on 20th to 22nd September 2022. It rained again, without let-up, between 8th and 10th of October. Traditional Wall Chajjas that Protect Our traditi…