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Farmer and musician Krishna McKenzie runs a six-acre permaculture farm in Tamil Nadu’s Auroville. He grows around 150 varieties of plants using natural farming techniques. Many of them are local and edible wild plants, considered to be ‘super-foods’ with medicinal properties. A permaculture farm has different layers of vegetation and a diverse range of crops. This biodiversity provides nutritional security and a climate-resilient farming system. McKenzie said his farming practices are inspired from those of Japan's Zen master farmer Masanobu Fukuoka, famous for his experiments with natural farming techniques. A healthy soil is the first requirement of natural farming, according to McKenzie. One of the sustainable farming practices used by him include non-tillage, in which soil is not distributed by the process of tilling. McKenzie mixes leave and crop residues to maintain soil health. These biomass components decompose and work as soil nutrients. He also abhors the use of machinery, generally used in traditional farming. “The first step of natural farming is returning organic matter back to soil,” according to McKenzie. Flowers, fruits, vegetables, oilseeds, cereals and millets are grown by him this way. To financially support his farm, McKenzie also provides services to the local population. This includes running a popular restaurant and a weekly subscription-based basket service. McKenzie started a farm-to-plate restaurant in 2011. The restaurant’s motto is to promote and serve the local bio-region’s delicacies. With his basket service, McKenzie gives customers the option to subscribe and make advance payments for the same. McKenzie believes the way we grow and consume food is a major cause of global warming. Industrialised food production, transportation and distribution worldwide are responsible for at least one-fourth of total greenhouse emissions. As a teen, he went to J Krishnamurti School in the United Kingdom, where he discovered his passion for farming and a life close to nature. He wanted to live close to nature and grow his own food. A school teacher inspired him to go to Auroville. When he eventually reached there in the 1990s, he fell in love with Tamil Nadu. He then began his ‘Solitude Farm’ along with other young residents in 1996. His fellow farmers left after some time but McKenzie stayed on, gradually implementing permaculture in ‘Solitude Farm’. Around three million farmers currently practise permaculture across 140 countries.

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Yoga Namaskar is a complete 10-minute Yoga for beginners to stretch and strengthen your back. You can do it at home, in the gym or office. It strengthens your spine to remove back pain and prevent it from occurring in the future. At the same time it increases your shoulder, hip and ankle mobility. It is perfect for beginners and you can do it at home, in the office or gym. Make it part of your daily routine and benefit in no time.

#MentalHealthMatters #MentalHealthMatters #InnerEngineeringOnline Here are 5 simple and effective tips from Sadhguru to enhance our mental health.

Sadhguru answers a question about staying motivated in life, and how every human being must make the most of the brief time that they have.

In this video, I show you how I was able to learn the full splits in 30 days of stretching, using a short, simple, and straightforward stretching routine that I put together! With this routine, I was able to increase my body flexibility and achieve the full splits as a complete beginner, in just a few short weeks! :) I have never really been the most flexible guy, but I've always admired and wanted the ability to do the splits. So one day, I decided to challenge myself to learn the full middle splits as quickly as I could (while still being safe!!!). And with a bit of commitment and a lot of effort, I was able to increase my flexibility by a surprising amount in just 4 weeks! Hope you enjoy the video and find some value in it! This is my first time ever doing something like this (recording, editing, and speaking in a video) and even though it was a difficult, slightly embarrassing, and sometimes frustrating process, I quite enjoyed it and I'm proud of the end result! If you'd like to see videos like this, let me know with a like and a comment! And don't forget to SUBSCRIBE! And if you have any tips that you would like to share, post it in the comments! Hopefully, it will be helpful to myself and everybody else!