Padma and Narsanna Koppula have turned a barren piece of land in Telangana’s Medak district in India into a food forest by engaging the community that lives around it. Here’s their story.
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Search our blog for many related stories on different ways to turn degraded, dead, run down land into productive farmland. This is one of the best ways to create an affordable homestead.
I remember driving through degraded land around Madurai, India with some NGO guys. They were real interested as I explained how they could buy some of this land cheaply and turn it into highly productive farmland in about 5 years. It seems hard to believe, but as you can see by searching our blog there are lots of fairly fast, easy methods to do this.