As the organic movement grows in northeast India, a number of small-scale tea growers and farmers have been trying out some of India's traditional Vedic practices - and finding them very useful in improving the soil and reducing damage done by insect pests and disease!
There are lots of short, educational videos describing these practices online, but very few in Assamese language and none in most of the regional languages of Assam and other northeast states.
One of the projects Fertile Ground's volunteers will be working on this year will be to help local people share the information they've gathered by creating their own videos, and then uploading that information to the internet.
If you're in the Comox Valley and have a digital camera in good working condition that you'd like to donate to this project, you can leave it with our friends at The Broken Spoke, 420 Fitzgerald Ave., in downtown Courtenay!
There are lots of short, educational videos describing these practices online, but very few in Assamese language and none in most of the regional languages of Assam and other northeast states.
One of the projects Fertile Ground's volunteers will be working on this year will be to help local people share the information they've gathered by creating their own videos, and then uploading that information to the internet.
If you're in the Comox Valley and have a digital camera in good working condition that you'd like to donate to this project, you can leave it with our friends at The Broken Spoke, 420 Fitzgerald Ave., in downtown Courtenay!
