Community · 2020 · Pondhi village, Bilaspur
Student's Farm
One acre, one growing season, chemical-free
Where it started
COVID-era disruption to food supply chains made food security a suddenly immediate concern, and gave Nature Bodies' composting work - until then a standalone activity - an obvious next application.
What Nature Bodies did
On a one-acre plot in Pondhi village, Bilaspur, students ran a full growing season of brinjal, spinach, coriander, and cowpea, tracked week by week over six weeks and fed by compost the group had been producing separately - around 60kg over two months using a dry-leaf composting method.
The harvest came to more than a quintal (100kg+) of chemical-free produce, grown and documented by the students themselves as both a food-security response and a hands-on lesson in closing the loop between waste and food.
Key activities
- ◆6-week tracked organic growing cycle across four crops
- ◆Dry-leaf composting feeding directly into farm inputs
Impact
Harvest
Compost produced
Farm area
Visual story
What remains
This work continues - new campaigns build on what this one started. Your support carries it forward.
Help fund the next one
Choose an amount
Payments are processed securely by Razorpay. We never see or store your card details.