why want a farm

Motivations:
• A healthy lifestyle in the not-too-distant future
• A responsible lifestyle (no garbage, no sewage)
• Responsible land use
  • no leaving land fallow
  • compensate for ongoing deforestation (native species)
  • diversity of plants, flowering all year (for the bees)
  • fodder for some gaushala
• Responsible water use
  • ideally, well water use only in dry spells, and for small patches of banana and sugarcane
  • entirely rainfed and using harvested rainwater otherwise
• Self-sufficiency first
  • groundnut and kusube (safflower)
  • ragi, navaNe
  • mango, bel, guava, pomegranate, sitaphal
  • ganesha habba patra puja trees
  • species of ayurvedic interest

Non-motivations:
• not looking to produce for wholesale sales
• no tobacco, no arecanut
• not looking to entirely recoup the cost of travelling to the farm