Onyx Organic Farm

Pune 27. Vishal Nagar. Flat No 3. C/O I M Patil. This is where the farm work gets organized, even though we are sitting in a flat in Sandha Nagari. It’s a bit funny to think about a farm from a residential building, but that’s how we have it set up. We spend a lot of time talking about soil and plants while looking at the walls of the apartment. Onyx Organic Farm is really about the dirt and the crops, but the paperwork happens here in A2. Vishal Nagar is a busy area, lots of people moving around. We try to keep things simple. We don't have a big corporate team, just a few of us working together. Sometimes the mud from the actual farm ends up on the floor here. Mr. Patil has been doing this for a while. We worry about the rain and the sun more than most people living in flats do. It’s a quiet place for the most part, except for the usual city noises outside. We just want to grow things and get them to people. There aren't any fancy slogans on the walls. Just some calendars and maybe a few notes about the next harvest written on scraps of paper. We have a small kitchen where we make coffee and talk about the weather. It’s not a big operation, just us trying to make the farming thing work from here. We keep our boots by the door and our minds on the fields. It is a good way to live, even with the city noise.