Humans Moving away from Nature – A Risk Ignored

Our food habits and lifestyle have drastically changed since a couple of decades. Almost every day we are eating food with preservatives, taste enhancers, added sugars, stabilisers, regulators what not. The list is endless.

We are taught time is money. Hence we are using so much of machinery for our convenience and saving time but are forgetting that our physical activities have considerably reduced.

Missing freely available Medicines from Nature

We are missing on 3 freely available medicines from nature especially in the metro/Tier Cities

• Sun light : In Metro/Tier-1 cities the buildings are so high that we only get sunlight after 10 am or 11 am. In the evenings the sun is not visible after 4 or 5 pm. We have to go to terrace to get the sunlight. How many of us have time in the mornings and evenings. We are usy commuting back and forth to offices
• Exercise/Physical Activity : We are taught time is money. Hence we are using so much of machinery for our convenience and time saving that our physical activity has considerable reduced. We see long term impacts and diseases mysteriously hit us. Around 20 years ago doctors used to tell patients to take rest as a part of their treatment/prescription. But now a days doctors are telling to increase the physical activity as part of the treatment.
• Consumption of Quality Air/Water : Its become is impossible to get access to quality air and water thanks to the pollution levels in the cities

Animals are not drifting away from Nature

No other species has deviated the food and lifestyle like this. Even today a Hen, elephant, snake every other animal is following their parents food and lifestyle. You don’t see much changes in their way of living. Chicks just follow the mother and eat what the mother is eating be it insects or grains, No deviations

Chicks still follow Mother Hen in figuring out WHAT to EAT

Animals are still living healthily without super speciality hospitals, they give birth normally, they don’t need fertility centres, dentists. They are living in tune with nature.

Humans species as risk for forgetting how nature works

How many of us are actually transmitting the simple granny tips for a healthy living to our kids. Right from eating Hing for solving loose motion, applying turmeric powder for a cut. applying mucus for a simple bruising on the skin. If you see some of the animals (tiger) just lick the wound.

First of all are todays kids ready to accept these teachings ? We have created a system of schools that shun these old methods in the name of modernisation

We were seeing age only related diseases 20-30 years back. Now we are seeing all so many diseases and they are occurring at early age as generations pass. There are so many houses where grand parents are healthy without any diseases but the next generations who are much younger are having lifestyle diseases

Being in Farm helps to interpret Nature and live in-tune with Nature

Being in a farm and seeing diverse flora and fauna we have ample opportunities to understand nature and live in tune with Nature. Observing animals is so relaxing and also make us think how we have complicated our lives.

• Maintaining Rich Bio Diversity of Indigenous plants : At HOF farm we have more that 100 varieties of plants. Right from 30 year old Tamarind trees to lemon grass blade. We are identifying each plants role in human life and protecting them. Even a parthenium/congress tree is used to make dasaparni kashya.
  • Half of the plants at HOF farm are indigenous to Hampi area to this plants like we never planted a Turkey berry we identified
• Inter dependency of each species : We can see so many food cycles in the farm. Herbivorous insects eating leaves of the plants. There Herbivorous insects are consumed by carnivorous insects
• Achieve Self Sustenance within the farm : We don’t have instant 10 min delivery facility at the farm :). We can look for opportunities within the farm when any need arises. If we are hungry we walk to nearest fruit tree and satisfy the hunger. There are so many medicinal plants that can heal a would. Don’t need YT short we have so many colourful things to observe

Please comment what you think.

That’s all Folks ! Thanks for being here

Best Regards,

Seshu