urban farming

How’s it growing & how could it grow more?
Source: growingfoodwithkhirkee.wordpress.com/2014/12/03/hows-it-growing-how-could-it-grow-more/ It had been a while since we followed up with our stakeholders and plants. So one of the afternoons I went wandering in the streets of Khirkee to say hello to our farmer friends. I had […] December 21, 2014, Kush

Step 2
A photo essay of a project on the Khoj terrace. Oct-Nov 2014 December 18, 2014, Asim Waqif

Mrs. Rizwana’s Kitchen Garden
Source: growingfoodwithkhirkee.wordpress.com/2014/11/17/mrs-rizwanas-kitchen-garden-2/ I was at KHOJ with lots of work piled up and bad wifi reception. My laptop froze and my phone showed zero network bars. Was this a sign to take a break from the connectivity and social […] November 17, 2014, Kush

Goats going omn omn omn on the Greens!
Source: growingfoodwithkhirkee.wordpress.com/2014/11/17/goats-going-omn-omn-omn-on-the-greens/ Last week we received a call from a family we had met earlier during the project planning. They had just returned from a trip to their family farms in Meerut with 3 bags of soil […] November 17, 2014, Kush

Sharing Responsibility & Ownership
Source: growingfoodwithkhirkee.wordpress.com/2014/11/17/sharing-responsibility-ownership/ We had realized that communication and engagement with Arun’s family was going to be the only way we could farm successfully on the KHOJ terrace. (Arun, a support staff at KHOJ, lives with his son, wife […] November 17, 2014, Kush

Visiting Defence colony community composting site
SOURCE: https://routeup.wordpress.com/ Decentralised Solid Waste Management in Defense Colony project is a collaborative effort of RWA, Defense colony and Toxics Link. For inspiration we visited the composting site, to learn how this place runs and […] November 13, 2014, Srishti

Growing with the community
source: http://routeup.wordpress.com/2014/11/10/growing-with-the-community/ Ahmad family has been involved with us at growing food in their small home garden. Reswana and Saba the two women of the house are busy growing kadi patta, mint, spinach, basil, wheat […] November 10, 2014, Srishti

Reaching out & engaging at KHOJ
Source: growingfoodwithkhirkee.wordpress.com/2014/11/17/reaching-out-engaging-at-khoj/ During the process of our intervention with the community spaces for farming and public participation came the idea to keep one day for presenting our progress, inviting dialogue and potential collaborations with more organizations and individuals working […] November 7, 2014, Kush

Khoj Community involved in the Terrace Garden
Khoj’s terrace is full of edible greens like Mustard, Amaranth, Meethi, Ragi, Drumsticks, Coriander, Spinach, Tomatoes, Winged Beans and Lobia. This is a combined effort of the srtist of Negotiating Food and the community of […] November 4, 2014, Srishti

The Joy in Sowing and Growing
Source: growingfoodwithkhirkee.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/the-joy-in-sowing-and-growing-2/ Tiny leaflets were bursting out of the soil. Soil that we prepared ourselves using मिट्टी from the NDMC construction site at Kidwai Nagar, cocopeat, soilrite and home grown compost from kitchen waste. Some seeds were growing faster than the others. […] October 25, 2014, Kush

Urban Farming Event at Khoj
Source: http://routeup.wordpress.com/2014/10/19/urban-farming-event-at-khoj/ Exactly a month back, on the 19th of September an assorting mix of people got together at Khoj to explore various activities and processes to do with farmig/growing food. The evening included a […] October 19, 2014, Ita

When we got down to farming!
Source: growingfoodwithkhirkee.wordpress.com/2014/09/18/when-we-got-down-to-farming/ Our site hunt was over and a seed for a community farming initiative was sown. Shraddha and I went material shopping for Step 1 of our project, ‘Germinating Seeds’. From our conversations with the […] September 18, 2014, Kush

Monsoons and Snails!
Source: growingfoodwithkhirkee.wordpress.com/2014/09/18/monsoons-and-snails/ After learning the basic philosophy of permaculture at The Green House farm in Chattarpur, I learned that all planting should be done in order to mimic the dynamics / ecosystem of a forest. Since then, at home, we’ve been trying a different approach. Unlike earlier […] September 18, 2014, Kush

Visit to an Educational Urban Farm
Source: growingfoodwithkhirkee.wordpress.com/2014/09/18/visit-to-an-educational-urban-farm/ A month or two earlier, my mum came home from her evening walk and told me about an organic farm at the government run primary school right behind our house. She was passing the school’s […] September 18, 2014, Kush

Finding Ground
Source: https://routeup.wordpress.com/2014/09/18/finding-ground/ Negotiating Food is attempting to expand the project from the small nursery on the terrace of KHOJ to go into the Guerrilla Gardening in the parks of Kheerki. Negotiating Food(we) have been doing a […] September 18, 2014, Srishti

The seeds are sprouting
source: http://routeup.wordpress.com/ Seed Balls being prepared as part of the Negotiating food Gaming activity. These Seedballs consists of cow dung, mud, seeds of amaranth, ragi, bitter gourd and water melon. Sprouted Seed ball, these are the […] September 10, 2014, Web Master

Why Compost/Urban Farm at Khoj?
Urban spaces like Delhi have been facing land degradation and desertification due to deforestation and constant displacement of top soil for construction of housing and infrastructure. Two of the major resources the city has to offer is its […] September 2, 2014, Ita

Seeds for the Compost
Source: http://routeup.wordpress.com/ Now that our compost is getting ready slowly, we have started to look for seeds to sow on the soil which will be created. we got some seeds from the local friend’s urban […] August 29, 2014, Srishti

Compost at Khoj
Khamba is a three tier container to compost kitchen waste. Now this Khamba finds its space outside Three Window Cafe in Khoj. Kitchen waste like vegetable and fruit (bio-degradable) being added in the […] August 20, 2014, Ita

Step 1
August 20, 2014, Asim Waqif

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