Farming

From just 197 students, today this primary school has almost 700 students and a farm of their own and there's no turning back for this primary school in Alappuzha.

While he cannot perform manual labour, Singh takes care of pretty much everything else—from deciding cropping patterns, monitoring the sowing, maintenance and harvest activities, overlooking the preparation of Jeevamrut and other biopesticides, and travelling to market his produce and training other farmers!

The students are also involved in waste management activities in the village - maintaining bamboo waste bins by the roadside.

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Using this, it’s possible to grow a variety of native species in as little a space as 20 square feet. Imagine having your own mini forest!

“We are living in times where industrial chemicals are being used to grow the food we feed our children. We wanted to change that, not just for our kids, but others too. So we decided to move to India and start growing our food by becoming natural farmers."

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"Even our customers could smell the chemicals in our rice and wheat. Why would they buy toxins by choice? Now our crops and vegetables are sold out the fastest at the weekly bazaar,"

The 50-year-old who hails from Mettupalayam in Coimbatore district has mastered a low-cost and unique leaf-culture technique that frees farmers from seed plantation!