Abundance Product of the Month
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. Home » Blog » Abundance Product of the Month Abundance Product of the Month October 2025 · AuroOrchard 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 22 Oct 2025 Monthly Updatesㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ 22 Oct 2025 Lessons from Auroville Farm Assessment 2023 22 Oct 2025 Recipe Alert!ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ 22 Sep 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 October 2025 · AuroOrchard 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 hives of native species, including Apis cerana and stingless bees, our focus has remained on pollination, not honey extraction. We are now exploring if small amounts of honey can be harvested from the stingless bee hives to offer this medicinally rich product to the community. New hives have been made and we continue to multiply the hives. The goal will be to discover a method that maintains the integrity of Natural Beekeeping as well as offer some honey for the nutrition of the community. September 2025 Poultry AuroOrchard is now a member of the Cage Free and Free Range Poultry Producers Association of India. It is a small group of poultry farmers in India committed to high ethical standards of poultry keeping. We are also in the process of applying for the international Humane Farm Animal Care certification (https://certifiedhumane.org/). We will share details on our progress with this and the standards followed soon. This is a big step for us in formalising the free range standards at AuroOrchard as well as taking further steps to continue improving the quality of life of the birds and the eggs. Vegetable garden The vegetable production has suffered in the last month due to lack of Sun and constant rains. The rains also mean more weeds which we are working hard to catch up with. Our experiments with the burlap mulching sheet are showing some good results. However, termites have already gotten to them. Crops like Pumpkin, Cucumber, Beans will now be stopped until the monsoon passes and we are beginning to prepare for conserving the soil for monsoon by mulching and ground covers.Sweet Potato and Tapioca planting is also underway and will finish before the arrival of monsoon in October. Orchards The rains in the last months have been a blessing for planting trees. We have successfully finished planting the new Jackfruit block (called Hope Jackfruit) with about forty jackfruit trees. We have now started planting for the new Avocado block (called Hope Avocado) with about 45 Avocado trees together with Papayas, Moringa, Subabool, Mexican Sunflower, Rosella, Corn, Cow grass etc. In the last two years, this is the seventh intensive orchard being planted (after Mango/Citrus, Coconut/Banana, Papaya/Citrus, Ramphal/Pineapple, Avocado/Papaya, Jackfruit/Papaya). This is part of the ongoing effort to optimise orchard cultivation at the farm and increasing fruit production for Auroville. Seeds & Nursery We have a large variety of tree saplings in the nursery which we are now planting in the gardens before the monsoon. We are thankful to all those who sent us back the Avocado seeds. We have been able to start a substantial number of seeds which will be planted out in the coming months to increase Avocado production on the farm. For monsoon, we are now focussing on starting some herbs which can be planted in the green house- Basil, Celery, Mint, Peppermint, Lemongrass etc. Abundance We added Brinjal spread last month to our regular recipes. Brinjal grows on the farm
