This post is about another art party we had in the city earlier this January. It was a saturday afternoon, which is usually when I hang out with my friends in the city as everyone works full time now and

This post is about how I made our first batch of compost on our farm using one of the various compost making techniques. Compost is a vital component for many homesteaders and organic farmers. It's a good

This is my entry for this week's Art Explosion contest hosted by @juliakponsford. The theme is awakening which for me signifies something larger than merely waking up, so I chose to interpret a spiritual

What's an art party you ask? Essentially it's a place to collectively create any form of art with other like minded people, free from pressure or judgement. We had a lot of that creative synergy during

This post is about how we built our stone toolshed using local materials like stone and mud. We used to have a manager who would take care of farm work in our absence.He was instrumental in arranging the

This post is about how I pickled our carrots for better preservation. We had an abundant yield of multi-hued carrots from our previous experiment with companion planting. I gave a lot of them away, and

This post is about we adopted a bunch of stray cats, or should I say how they adopted us. Meet Leia. She used to rest on our window sills for her afternoon naps to beat the strong Chennai heat.I was spending

This post is about the process behind the logos I made for @curie's logo design contest using Adobe Illustrator. Logos Curie to me predominantly stands for community, transparency, connections, and of

This post is about the first bunch of vegetables and food crop we harvested from what we planted. To begin with, we'd only used around 3 of our terraces to grow crops on an experimental basis. I tried

This post is about how we built our stone well on the homestead from local materials. The first infrastructure project we undertook after our land was fenced and terraced, was to locate and fortify a water

This post is about a series of fractals I created using photographs of the moonset and sunrise after the recent eclipse. First off, a huge thank you to @soundwavesphoton for sharing his photo hacking

This post is about play areas I constructed using eco-design for the APL school in Chennai as part of a design commision. After a few months living in Kodaikanal, I was invited by the APL school to design

This post is about the first few bits of infrastructural work we did on our homestead in the hills. I'd described previously how I'd figured out how to move to Kodaikanal to live and operate out of the

I haven't drawn anything in a long time. I've seen a lot of art contests here and haven't found the time to submit something new for them. The opportunity to get into drawing again came in the form of

This post is about the process of moving to Kodaikanal so I could visit and work on our land on a regular basis. In the first few months of 2017 my father and I visited our land on a recurring basis to

This post is about how I decided to get into permaculture on a homestead near the hills of Kodaikanal, located in South India. As 2016 came to a close, I'd finished my work at the Sharanalaya School and

After our previous re-cap session, the school had it's semester break. The latter half of academic years usually see a lot more holidays and breaks. In addition to the semester, Diwali and Christmas holidays,

So, I came back after the weekend to see my follower count increased to 111. This may not seem like all that much, but to me you guys mean the world. I'm not active on any other social media, and everyone

This post is about a series of workshops I did for children of a school to teach them about sustainability and give them practical experience on the topic. While doing my landscaping and vertical gardens

This post is a little different from what I usually upload. This is a celebration and curation of the local flavour of music from my corner of the world in South India. Music has always been a big part