A classroom without walls, is the perfect way one can describe the Holly Hill Farm in Cohasset, MA. They take students during the fall and spring and teach them farming. The young farmers program expose them to basics of farming: planting, fertilizing, weeding and harvesting.

On the final day the students prepare lunch from the harvest. To read in detail visit Holly Hill Farm, classroom without walls.

I wonder if in India, all students start getting into such programs during summer or winter break, we will be teaching a lot to them starting from dignity of labour to appreciating healthy food. The schools can start this kind of programs by having common patches for each standard where the social work hours can go.

I remember we used to cut grasses, weed, plant trees, water the plants etc during the social work hours. But what fun it would have been to have a complete vegetable garden in the school. May be today I would’ve been in a different profession altogether.

There are more talks on going organic. It is said that by going organic the farmers can reduce the cost of cultivation. In bangalore city which is a growing hub of technology farmers are the least earning group, with income lesser than national average of Rs 2115.

Farmers of Gujarat have also recently set up an organization Madhya Gujarat Sajeev Kheti Samaj. They promote growing of cereals, pulses and vegetables employing horticulture without using fertilizers.

This organic wave will soon take the country by storm and soon we’ll be living in an organic world.