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Auroville Urban Farming: A new beginning!
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Irst entry into our online Diary! Today we practically finished our first fundraising brochure. We will use it to kick-start our project, so that the monetary aspect will not be felt as a burden at this phase, where many other thing are keeping us busy. This small publication contains an adapted copy of our project proposal to Auroville, some background about Urban Farming in other realities across the globe, along pictures of our progresses so far. We really hope to manage to cont. Photo album, cl i.
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Auroville Urban Farming: Volunteer with us!
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This page will guide those people of goodwill who want to come and volunteer with us! Volunteering in Auroville is a great opportunity to learn, experiment and live a new way of life. Our project offers volunteering opportunities to both students and experts, curious and ambitious people. We are looking for both short-term and long-term help! There is no minimum time commitment required, however there is a difference between participating as a guest or committing as an official volunteer. Alternatively y...
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Auroville Urban Farming: How to Donate
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How to donate to Auroville’s projects. Please mention the purpose of your donation. In your cover letter or e-mail and specify whether you would like to receive a tax-exemption or normal receipt. Bank transfers from within India. State Bank of India Auroville Township,. IFS Code SBIN0003160,. Auroville Unity Fund,. Account number: 10237876031,. Specified: AV Urban farming. Donations from India are eligible for exemptions under section 80 G of Income Tax Act. Bank transfer from abroad:. Interview/Conversa...
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Auroville Urban Farming: March 2015
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March 10th - 2015. Long time since our last post, we are starting to realize that it will be difficult to update this blog on a regular basis for as long as we don't have a dedicated person, and times be so busy. Anyhow we have big news! We have almost completed all the formalities to be able to host volunteers, so there is a new page in the blog about how to volunteer with us. Check it out! Our dear friend Gino is back, and he's joining the project with a great spirit! With his experience he will probab...
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Auroville Urban Farming: April 2015
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As Auroville is turning hot with the advent of summer, more energies are now going into fundraising efforts and into organising our activities for the monsoon and post-monsoon seasons. When some of the above will be ready we will publish them here! Also our experimentation with medicinal plants has grown a bit, as our friend Kayananda has planted some Brahmi ( bacopa monnieri. We would like to thank all the people who have helped us in the last weeks, to name some of them Alain, Tomoko, Andrew who helped...
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Auroville Urban Farming: February 2015
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Our first mission: Surrender! Today was the f. Irst time that our newly formed group went to a community who wanted to start a kitchen garden. This community, Surrender, has some amazing gardens, but one of the youngest buildings had yet to start one. Following the steps of other people before us, like Krishna and the Localicious team and incredible edible, we dug a trench around a rectangle in the garden, which we turned into a kitchen garden. Practically speaking, today we were a team of. Wednesday we ...
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Auroville Urban Farming: Existence Community Forest
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Existence Community forest is the beginning of the Mahakali park, connecting the city centre to the green belt. Our planned work with this community is to address concepts such as Food Forests, also known as Agroforestry. Having forested land within the city centre allows a new interaction between forest communities and the administrative offices, along the various other realities present in the area, around food production. Than we installed a drip-irrigation system, connecting all these fruit trees, so...
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Auroville Urban Farming: ACUR
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ACUR is the group who manages the gardens of the Townhall complex. Organisational centre of Aurov. Is a very publ. Ic place, v. Ited regularly by many Aurov. Ital to the town are found here. Ith the gardeners team we started to approach the. Ion of food product. In the already ex. Ing landscape. ACUR prov. Ided us a good amount of mater. Ion and, follow. Ing our close-loop approach, the whole product. Ill be nurtured by recycled waters. Is to develop d. Ifferent systems of hort. In order to attract attent.
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Auroville Urban Farming: Mitra Youth Hostel
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Mitra is a youth hostel, located in the city centre area, which offers accommodation to young students and volunteers. Usually these young people stay for at least a few weeks, and although they all have commitments to different Aurovilian Units, many of them are interested to learn a bit how to manage their own garden, as they see this is a valued habit in Auroville. He last elements we promoted in Mitra are fruit trees. Many students in the last months expressed the desire to have fresh fruit for break...
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Auroville Urban Farming: Dhartisatra & BlOsCAMBlO
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Mimmo, a.k.a Dhartisatra [Domenico Vitiello], is the newest addition to our team. Our intention is to create the first GASeS in lndia [Auroville] through the Urban Farming project, to facilitate exchange of knowledge, seeds and techniques spontaneously within Auroville. Food is free, and thanks to Mimmo we will be able to help create a network where money will not be needed, as help will come from fellow citizens who engage in similar efforts. Here the l ink to h. Ial for home-made nursery made of plast.
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