Abundance Product of the Month
Have you tried our authentic sun-cured lemons preserved with Himalayan salt yet? They are bursting with flavours of lemons and are free from preservatives. Add them to your salads or curries to add a tangy depth. Home » Blog » Abundance Product of the Month Abundance Product of the Month December 2025 · AuroOrchard Salted & Sun-cured Lemon Have you tried our authentic sun-cured lemons preserved with Himalayan salt yet? They are bursting with flavours of lemons and are free from preservatives. Add them to your salads or curries to add a tangy depth. Order Here October 2025 Turmeric Flakes Our Turmeric roots have been sun-dried and turned into flakes that can be easily infused in some hot honey & lemon tea for the changing weather with a pinch of black pepper. Order Here September 2025 This cold pressed Coconut Oil has been made from coconuts picked from our Coconut poly-orchard with raised beds of bananas and several other plants to support the fertility of this orchard. With no preservatives added to this oil, it is a healthier alternative to the standard coconut oil available in the market. Order Here August 2025 Basil-Pesto Cashew Product Description: This pesto is rich with AuroOrchard Cashew and Basil both of which we have in abundance at the moment. We use very little oil (one-third) necessary for blending and preventing oxidation. Order Here June 01, 2025 · Anshul Aggarwal Over the last months, we have processed our fresh produce which is in abundance into a variety of products that are available directly from the farm. We hope to slowly expand this activity into a more consistent and significant part of the farm. As the consumption of Auroville produce continues to drop, we feel this is one way we can still offer Auroville grown produce to people within and outside of Auroville. Order Here Previous Article Featured Articles Abundance Product of the Month 05 Dec 2025 Monthly Updatesㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ 28 Nov 2025 Glimpses of a solar futureㅤㅤㅤㅤ 05 Dec 2025 Flow of fire and water on the farmㅤㅤ 03 Dec 2025
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We continue to renovate our chicken coops introducing new systems for drinking water and feeding the birds. Next, we will redesign the nesting boxes. Last month, we welcomed the third flock of brown birds. This marks the full transition of our poultry from white birds to brown! Home » Blog » Monthly Updates Monthly Updates November 2025 · AuroOrchard Poultry This month has kept us busy troubleshooting the new systems in the poultry as both the birds and us get used to them. The heavy rains and cool weather also got us working on roof leakages and covering the walls with tarpaulins to prevent cold winds entering the coops. Overall the birds’ health is better this month. The youngest flock has been introduced to the free-range and they love it! Vegetable garden We are sowing green manure on the raised beds and preparing them for the winter planting after the monsoon. The monsoon rhythm this year has been quite special and we anticipate we will have a longer growing season. The current planting is being done on the raised beds which have better drainage than the fields. The fields are being kept under sunnhemp cover for the monsoon. We are also using this time to add compost and biomass to the beds. Orchards Since most of the planting was done in the preceding months, the work for this month was maintaining what was planted. The biomass plants like subabool, castor and mexican sunflower have already grown big in the young orchards of jackfruit and avocado. They have been pruned significantly to allow for sun and air circulation, while adding valuable biomass to the soil. The vigorous growth of all the plants in the syntropic system, especially with abundant water in the soil, is heartening to see. We also planted more Papaya plants in the Ramphal-Pineapple block. Seeds & Nursery The nursery is full of vegetable, green and herb seedlings—pumpkin, cucumber, beans, celery, arugula, lettuce, palak, brinjal and ladies’ fingers. Once the rains taper, we’ll begin herbs like coriander. We’ll also plant more perennial saplings, including harmony, subabool, lemongrass and others flowering plants to continue building diversity on the farm. Abundance The room renovations are complete and our team has a new space to organise all the work. More people have also joined the team, bringing in new ideas and approaches. The conversations about how to use food once it is grown have been deeply inspiring. Some new products are also being experimented on and some have already been added to the baskets with encouraging feedback. For the coming month, we would like to focus on preparing for the abundant spring season as well reflect more deeply on the packaging of our products and continue exploring better and natural ways of packing and distributing the food. Research & Education The research projects continue in their own rhythm and pace. We will be restarting our vermicompost project in the coming month. This project combines the wisdom of the indigenous worms with the efficiency of the exotic ones into a single worm polyculture. More details and pictures will shared soon. We also have a new team member who is helping us analyse the data of our production records since 2022. We hope to be able to share this data with you all soon. October 2025 Poultry We continue to renovate our chicken coops introducing new systems for drinking water and feeding the birds. Next, we will redesign the nesting boxes. Last month, we welcomed the third flock of brown birds. This marks the full transition of our poultry from white birds to brown! Vegetable garden Monsoon has arrived early! We are finishing some last remaining green manure work. We could not finish planting sweet potato in the fields due to the rains but have started rugula and spinach in the greenhouse. We are still getting a good quality of brinjal, ladies finger, some last cucumbers and pumpkins and anticipate a reduced production next month due to lack of Sun. Orchards The new Avocado block planting is done! This was just in time for the monsoon. We now continue to prune and cut grass to add biomass in the Papaya, Avocado, Jackfruit orchards. For this rainy month, we will focus only on pruning and cutting biomass creating more light and ventilation for the plants as well as adding mulch to protect the soil from rain compaction. Many more biomass trees like Melia dubia, Acacia auriculiformis, Medical Sunflower, Subabool, Moringa, Agathi and others. have also been added in the old and new orchards. Seeds & Nursery Most of the tree saplings raised in the past months have been planted across the farm for biodiversity and biomass production. We started a diversity of herbs this month– Basil, Celery, Mint, Peppermint and Lemongrass. Our experiments with mint have been great and we are offering this in the baskets regularly. The coming days will be busy with preparing seedlings of Rugula and Spinach. Abundance We are renovating the Abundance room where all the products are stored and the work of food preservation is done. We continue to offer a large diversity of produce through Abundance– cashew, coconut oil, lemon marmalade, basil pesto, conserves of lemon and mango, dry herbs and seasonal vegetable recipes like Brinjal spread and Rosella leaf chutney. Our team is exploring how we can move away from the idea of food processing to food preservation where the goal is not just “adding value” to sell something for a higher price, but focus on food preservation keeping the nutrition and flavour for longer. We welcome people from the community who may have any ideas or time to explore this with us. Research & Education We are happy to receive a small yet significant seed fund from SDZ, Netherlands for our project on Natural Beekeeping. Beekeeping at AuroOrchard began in 2015 to restore ecological balance and strengthen pollination. Following Natural Beekeeping principles—no treatments or artificial feeding—we let colonies live by their own rhythm. With about thirty
