Our first steps in City Farming

This was only a concept that we had heard of while we were living in Mumbai. It was like a dream when you thought of lush greenery around you, birds chirping, butterflies playing and having a fresh smell around you.
It was only when we started learning that moving to Pune was the best choice to live these dreams.The weather of the city supported our ideas and we began to spread our wings.
It was good reading and meeting people who had done this on a small scale in the past that inspired us to keep inching forward.

I still remember the days when we would be traveling to Pune when our home was being still set up with empty wooden Mango boxes. The fruit vendors in our little suburb of Chembur at Mumbai were only too happy to get rid of their burden of discarding these every 2 days with the BMC.
The idea was to fill these with naturally available material for composting. Simultaneously Siddartha also worked on constructing the compost pit adjacent to our row house. We would on a day to day basis throw in our green kitchen waste and culture it with microorganisms. This would soon become compost which we would use for adding to the boxes created on the terrace. These boxes had already been sown with chauli and moong seeds so that the appropriate nitrogen fixation would take place. we then started with sowing simple things like green chilles, corriander leaves, lemon grass, garlic,mint leaves etc and we could actually see these things germinate and grow in fron of our eyes.
Such was the beginning in early 2008 !!