Hello Everyone !
2 Weeks ago, I uploaded a video on this channel
and it was about our newly built home in India
For those who haven't watched that video,
I am giving the link in the description below.
You can watch it from there.
You will definitely like it.
Today's video is about the farming activities in our farm.
Once it was a Rubber plantation and
this video is about the mixed farming activities
we do here now.
Let us go straight to the video
and Welcome to Jyju's Home Videos !
This is our new home you see here
Full details about this house is given in my video
I uploaded two weeks ago. You can watch it here
First we are going to our cow shed
From these cows we get the fertilisers
for our farming needs
We use natural fertilisers like cow manure,
wee etc. for the farming.
It is an organic farm
Those last ones are Vechuri (a native cow breed) right ?
Yes
Are these ones Jersey (a Cow Breed)?
Both are Jersey
We used to get milk for our use
from these cows, in the past
There is no milk at the moment
We are buying milk now
What you see here is another cow shed
At the moment we store the fertilisers here
What you see here first are the coffee plant / trees
In the season, we get coffee for our use
and more from these plants
Have you heard of Mombin fruits (Ambazhanga)
This is a small Mombin tree.
Just starting to fruit this time.
What we see now are the Cocoa trees
Chocolates are made from the Cocoa beans
from these trees
When the Cocoa fruits / pods are ripe,
we pick them, open them and
remove the beans and sell them.
I have uploaded a video on how to make
chocolate from the cocoa beans,
on this channel recently.
I have given the video's link in the description below,
for those who are interested.
You can watch the video.
What you see here are our Areca nut palms
We also call it adaka maram (Adakka tree / palm)
This one is a dwarf areca nut palm
It started to fruit when at 3 feet high
We can see Coconut palms, Areca nut palms,
Grass and everything mixed here.
Once this was a Rubber Plantation.
After we bought it,
we converted it into a mixed farm
These are newly planted Areca nut palms
We can see Areca nut palms of different ages here
Let us now go to see our Coconut palms
These are modern coconut varieties like
D x T,
Keraganga
etc. which normally start to fruit
at the age of 4 or 5 years.
They are fruiting now at the age of 4 or 5 years
This one is D x T Coconut palm at 5 Years of age
It has a good crop, right ?
I mentioned it is a mixed farm
We also have Black Pepper vines here.
For that purpose, we planted Teak wood trees,
Jack fruit trees etc.
on top of what we already had here.
Black pepper vines grow on these teak wood trees
and Jack Fruit trees.
This one is a newly planted Black pepper vine
It has not started to fruit and still growing
We have different varieties of Black pepper vines here.
Black pepper vines are mostly planted
among the Coconut palms
They grow on the Teakwood trees and
Jack fruit trees we planted here.
What you see here is our Fish pond
I have recently uploaded a video on,
us fishing from this pond
If anyone interested,
I have given the link in the description.
You can watch it from there.
Now is our Banana Plantation
We planted lots of Banana plants among these
Coconut palms and Areca nut palms
They are of many popular varieties and
for our own use.
If we have excess, we also sell them.
Here is our Vegetable section
We used to grow a lot of vegetables here in the past.
At the moment we don't do much
These are Purple yam, planted here (in the soil)
These are Red Spinach growing behind our house
This is Mangosteen tree
It is now the fruiting season.
These are not ready at the time
I recorded this video.
That is the reason for their green colour.
When they are fully ripe,
they will be having a dark purple colour
This is a Rambutan tree
These were also not ripe
at the time of recording this video.
That is why they are in green colour
When they are fully ripe,
they will appear in red and yellow colours
In our property, there are two Rambutan trees
They both fruit a lot every year.
Birds will have some and we get the rest of it !
The video I uploaded last week was about those birds.
There are lots of wild birds around this property.
If you are interested in those birds,
I have given the link below in the description.
You can watch them.
This one is a Lychee Tree.
This one hasn't fruit yet
I think it is because it is growing under
these coconut palm's shade.
Now we can see our Jack Fruit trees
We have a lot of them here
and a lot of jack fruits in the season
And we have over 40 Mango trees
of different variety
This one is a Sapota tree
This one is a very nostalgic for most of us,
the Wild Jack tree ( Aani chakka)
It is known in different names here
such as aanikkai etc.
We have over 4 trees and fruit a lot every year.
We never get any fruit as the trees are so tall and
all of them are eaten by the bats and wild birds.
What you see here is our Rubber Plantation
Among these rubber trees, we also grow
Nutmegs, Cocoa trees etc.
There is no tapping at the moment as it is the
rainy season.
That is why so much weeds here.
You can see here among the rubber trees,
colonies of Honey bees
Honey is not ours
There are other people keep them here
and give us some honey as rent.
Now we can see our ornamental plants
in our front yard
Lots of varieties of plants
and they are in our front garden.
You can see a variety of beautiful plants here
Most of these plants can also be grown
inside the house
This plant here is called Tippali (Long pepper)
which has a lot of medicinal values
This plant you see here is called Ramba Leaves
It is called Pandan Leaves in English
Also called as Biriyani leaves
If you cook one leaf
of this plant with raw rice,
it will smell like biriyani !
It is a plant with a pleasant vanilla smell and taste
and known in different names
This is our pond we use for our irrigation purpose
From this pond we take water
to water our farm and all purposes
It is a different experience sitting
in the front veranda of our house
and enjoying the rainy season
Hope everyone like this video on our mixed farm
We will meet again next week
with another video like this one
Until then
Bye Bye, Everyone !
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