The journal
Learn to grow in healthy soil
Plain guides for first-time balcony gardeners and seasoned growers, written from what we do on the farm.

Start a balcony kitchen garden with vermicompost
Pots, soil mix and the five easiest crops for your first season.

Why organic carbon is the most important number in your soil
What it is, why many Punjab soils are short of it, and how compost rebuilds it.

Growing tomatoes at home: a beginner's guide
Timing for North India, pot size, staking and the two problems everyone meets.

Vermicompost, compost or cow dung: what's the difference?
Why fresh dung can harm plants, and what earthworms add.

Planting a forest at WB Farm
Why we gave part of our land back to native trees.
Sowing calendar
What to sow this month
For pots and kitchen beds in the plains of North India: Punjab, Haryana, Delhi NCR and western UP.
Video lessons
Watch and grow

