FarmSay this Dec: Field Notes
Welcome to the December ’25 round-up.
Publishing this a couple of days into January, while the December details are still fresh. This is a quick look back at what the month actually looked like on the ground.
Krishi Mela – The month really started there, walking through stalls, listening to farmers, and collecting ideas that shaped many of December’s next steps.
Microgreens training – A focused session that sharpened the way FarmSay thinks about household‑level nutrition and small, controllable growing systems.
IIHR mushroom training attempt – The mushroom farming slots vanished in about six minutes, and the fee now sits in refund limbo—a small reminder of how high the demand for structured agri‑learning has become.
Keystone beekeeping at Masinagudi – A day with hives and trainers that made bee behavior and landscape feel very real, and anchored how the beekeeping journey should begin around Mysuru.
The Nilgiris Earth Festival – A different kind of learning space: conversations, community, and sensing how people respond to slow, grounded ecological narratives.
Seedling setback and Batch 2 revival (Dec 23–24) – The first batch of seedlings did not make it, and that failure forced a reset in method and timing. Batch 2, started around December 23–24, carries those corrections and a quieter kind of confidence.
NYE outreach – Closing the month (and year) by reaching out to ApiNZ, HortiRoad2India, and the Mysuru Horticulture Department to see how FarmSay’s small beekeeping and horticulture efforts might sit inside larger NZ–India and Indo–Dutch productivity plans.
Indo American and All That Grows seed orders were also placed at the end of the month, setting up the next round of experiments.
One thing December underlined is that progress is rarely linear: public events, formal trainings, failed seedlings, revived batches, and international emails all sit in the same month and still point in one direction.
In January, the focus shifts to how the new seeds behave, and how to turn all of this into a more concrete plan for FarmSay’s 2026.