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Thursday, October 10, 2019

SANDHILLCRANES

Alabama almost lost its sandhill cranes. Now, hunters again will target the 'sirloin of the sky.'

made me to think of the Sandhill Crane families we regularly watch in our neighborhood in Florida.

These beautiful big cranes with always a young one or two are wonderful sight to anyone. The whole family walks together and all of the family feed together in the area. Whenever you pass by them they act gently and the father watches if there is any threat to the young one(s) and finds if it is not they enjoy their food again.

Such a harmless quiet big birds. It is always fun to watch them even if you are not keen bird watcher because the enormous size of the birds.

Some photos of Sandhill Crane families in our backyard

Beautiful Sandhill crane family with a very little young one -

Dad - keeping an eye on the family's safety

Family with grown kids -

Near Big Sandlake Lake, Orlando, Florida

About Sandhill Cranes:

Wiki

Cornell Lab of Ornithology - ID Sanhill Cranes

Audobon

We love to watch to these Sandhill Cranes and other birds in our backyard - wonderful families and really as a bird watcher worried about them being hunted.

Birds - Protect them

Eco-justice for Birds - Praying for Sandhill Cranes.

Quotes:

"I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven." - Emily Dickinson

“The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” - Mahatma Gandhiji

Recent Update on loss of Bird Population:
Birds are indicators of environmental health and this scientific study shows alarming results:

3 Billion Birds Gone - More Information

Scientific Paper - Decline of the North American avifauna - Kenneth V. Rosenberg et al.,
Science 04 Oct 2019:
Vol. 366, Issue 6461, pp. 120-124
DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw1313

Bradenton Herald Article:

Threatened sandhill cranes are dying on Florida roads. Here’s how the public can help save them

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission:

LIVING WITH SANDHILL CRANES

Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Sustainable Organic Natural Agriculture - Regenerative Farming

Sustainable Organic Natural Agriculture

Regenerative Farming

EAFARMS

Artificial Chemical Free Natural Farming:

At EAFarms, we practice artificial chemical free farming. We use farm manure, natural defenses in our agriculture practices. Our aim is to produce artificial chemical free produce. Also we avoid Genetically Modified Organisms.

We strictly use farm manure instead of chemical fertilizers. We are Tamil Nadu Organic Certified farm:

We also laboratory tested our produce and found no traces of artificial chemicals.

Since food is one of the most important part of human life it is better to produce it in natural way. In Hindi language SONA (Sustainable Organic Natural Agriculture) means Gold. We at EAFarms, consider our produce as GOLD (Green Organic Land Development).

Creating habitat and protecting Wildlife:
At EAFarms we have created forests with lots of trees. Trees are important part of our EAFarms ecosystem. Lots of birds and animals have come back to this area. One of borders at EAFarms is with a huge banyan tree with lots of living organisms and we call it as

"Natural Tree of Life".

The canopy of this big tree is clearly visible in Google maps. When we see these beautiful birds at EAFarms we feel happy and feel satisfied that we have created a habitat for Wildlife.

Water conservation methods:

At EAFarms we really know the importance of water conservation. We have created a Swale

and Ground Water Recharging Pits to recharge our ground water.

These methods have improved the ground water level to a better level even when there is low rainfall in a season. We also use drip irrigation and water pits in center of four trees to increase the utilization of the water more efficiently by the trees.

Permaculture - Contours for water conservation

At EAFarms, we practice all these efficiently and want to spread our information to the World. Anywhere in the World, if we work with the tune of Nature without disturbing the Nature, you really feel the satisfaction it brings and it can't just be expressed by words. Earlier I have written about spiritual farming too. Along with the other organic natural methods you include spiritual farming it takes the farming to another level.

Live stock is main part of EAFarms. Cattle grace our farms and we grow fodder in the farm. Cows are important part of our farm system.

Goats also graze the fodder and do their part for the farm.

Chickens follow them and do their job at EAfarms.

Because of all these livestock the soil gets richer and this can be visualized clearly by the presence of moisture and earthworms.

We also see bees buzzing around.

Wild birds are also frequent visitors to the farm,

making the farm a regenerative farm.

Some of our Organic Produce free of synthetic chemicals:

Utilizing Renewable Resources for Farming

Solar

BioGas

சுழன்றும்ஏர்ப் பின்னது உலகம் அதனால்உழந்தும் உழவே தலை.

Meaning of this Thirukural by the Great Tamil Poet Thiruvalluvar -

After searching and trying various employments in this revolving EARTH, humans finally resort to Agriculture and understands that it is the excellent form of labor even though it is really hard.

This is our real World experience, just wanted to share to the World.

With a BS in Biology, MS in Environmental Science focusing on Environmental Chemistry and M.Phil in Environmental Science focusing in Environmental Physiology and a PhD in Environmental Sciences from University of Maryland MEES Program and person who identified the Toxicity of Pocomoke River, MD with scientific evidence and research, before the massive fish kills in the Chesapeake Bay area, and another Master’s degree in Computer Science with focusing in Data, Leading as a technical adviser for compliance software development, this is not anecdotal nonsense based on the appeal to nature fallacy (mentioned as a comment when presented in a website), but our real world experience.

Makesh Karuppiah, PhD
Environmantal Scientist and Information Technologist

If Environment is protected everything else will be too.

Monday, December 3, 2018

Birds - Protect Them

Wonderful creatures that brings aesthetics to any environment. Just watching them fly and hear them sing takes away the stress. Colorful, different sizes, voices, cuteness, intelligent, building nests, raising young ones, migration and many more reasons that make bird watching a pleasant event. One can wake up stress free when woke up naturally by chirping and singing birds. Creator has created birds for a reason.

A little bird such as Cassin's vireo can migrate long way

Some Colorful Birds

Quote - “ I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. ” - American Poet Emily Dickinson
- which is a true statement.

At EA Farms we practice Sustainable Organic Natural Agriculture practices along with agro forestry to bring back birds.

A poem written by my daughter when she was in elementary school -

The Birds' Spot.

You can see how we create a niche for birds in our backyard, photographed and published it as a free eBook for everyone to enjoy.

Backyard Birds

As I was writing this blog, this Majestic Red Shouldered Hawk came and sat on our backyard compound wall.

To the young people out there:

There is more than your phones and gadgets out there, Take a stroll into the nature, watch these birds and enjoy the environment. It will for sure - help towards your health and well being.

To see such wonderful creatures erased due to advancement of human technologies, it really hurts.

Against human force they fall into helpless category. Our technology improvements never consider environment, earth co-inhabitants and environmental health. We are just focused on technological achievement as eye closed horse and do not even think about any thing else. Environment is as important as the technology and it should be considered whenever we move forward technology wise, Proper and humane tests should be completed before we move to a new technology blind folded. Even if we move that way at least we should find a way to shield and protect our co-inhabitants such as the beautiful birds and other flora, fauna and under-privileged who don't have any say against the injustice. Also nowadays I see lots of deforestation. Most of the bird habitats are changing to concrete jungles. Where will the birds live?. Eco-justice needs to be considered so that our future generations can also experience the wonderful songs and colorful birds as we do. Praying for that and request you to do your part (by growing trees that supports birds and simple things such as putting up a bird bath).

EA