Permaculture in India: Growing Soil and Diversifying Agriculture with Villagers in the Indian Drylands with Raya Grieb
This talk will share the work of the Living Ecology internship program which aids the work of Aranya Agricultural Alternatives, an effective development organization in India. Students learned permaculture consultancy, as they worked with a village farmer in implementing a transformational and functional farm design. These farms provide crucial examples of alternatives to GMO monocropping and solutions to drought, dry wells, malnutrition, severe soil depletion, and farmer suicides. This talk will specifically highlight the methods of turning barren laterite rock, in a deforested landscape, into productive agricultural systems.
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Raya GriebPermaculture Design Instructor, Social Justice Advocate, HerbalistRaya Grieb is a permaculture teacher and consultant with a passion for social justice and mentoring students. She advocates for learning traditional practices from local communities to live sustainably and gently on the Earth. Raya has taught permaculture consultancy to students in India, working with a village farmer to implement a functional farm design. She also teaches permaculture design courses and advanced courses on various topics related to permaculture. Raya is a herbalist who grows and wildcrafts medicinal herbs and runs Simply Being Botanicals. She is also a peaceful parenting coach and provides permaculture consultancy in the US, Costa Rica, and India. Raya has developed two farms using permaculture principles in California and is designing her third farm in the Sierra foothills.
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hope and possibility…thank you for sharing your important work with us and being with us. Warmly
Thank you Raya! Your doing wonderful work!
I LOVED THE WORK done by Raya Grieb. Thank you
I’m working on swales now to try to keep the water (when we get it) from running off. There were some already on my property but since I’m growing food I’m adding more. Thank you for this presentation. It’s good to see all the good work you’re doing.
Packed with practical information and amazing results.
I love the approach of bringing aspiring permiculture students into these projects in order to get them to engage with the land and people.
My favorite points were –
-live fencing – to break winds/fix nitrogen/increase biomass/save trees being cut to build fencing etc
-the critical function in local/farm scale regeneration of 1) seed saving, 2) nursery development
-in dry and arid landscapes with high winds – after creating rainwater swails, composting into the pits where the organic matter is protected and in contact with soil moisture and soil biology
-finding local people who are keen to be involved and maintain the required work, rather than setting up an external dependency (this point was also highlighted in Africa (with Tiyeni and Nathan Deboer panel discussion)