First day of my natural farming - Preparation for Cover Crop
Greetings! What a day! I along with my friends who are already into natural farming have decided to organize as a group to spread the awareness about natural farming! But we should follow the natural farming methods in our own lands, before preaching someone, right. That's exactly I have decided to do right now with guidance from other experienced people. For last one month, we were busy making preparations for building goshala (cow sheds), Paddy storage room and rooms for staff. Since my land has been farmed using non natural methods for past 10 years, I have decided to start giving the land some fertility using cover crops! In India, there is a new method called PMDS., stands for Pre-monsoon dry sowing. Using this method, 2 months before the main crop., variety of pulses, grains and leafy vegetables are sowed into land. Either we water them lightly or wait for monsoon to help with germination! After 2 months., cover crop will be undercut or rolled into land and let it rot into so...