Now the Town Hall has a circle garden. It was started by
Krishna from Solitude Farm around six months ago. “Despite Auroville being home
to many inspiring and different experiments, the community still by and large
does not realize that the essence of our existence lies in our relation to
food,” he says. “In a world currently dominated by industrialized agriculture,
which adversely impacts the environment and where financial profit is the
bottom line, circle gardens are based on the principles of permaculture and
natural farming.”
It all began during the ‘localicious food’ movement a couple
of years ago, when many Aurovilians came together to promote local vegetables.
This was later the basis for the ‘People-Food-Music’ activities at Solitude,
which eventually developed into the circle gardens. As Krishna points out,
“Nobody is going to solve our problem of where the food comes from unless it’s
you and me at the grassroots working towards it. We make circle gardens to...
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