All Goa Home Garden Competition

[Miguel Braganza]

Dears ,

The Botanical Society of Goa will conduct the judging for the 16th annual Home Garden Competition on Sundays 08 and 15 January, 2012. It would be nice if you register for the same and encourage others with good gardens to do likewise. It will be an incentive to make good gardens better. 

The prizes are worth Rs.5,000/; Rs.3,000/- and Rs.2,000/- for each of the two categories: 1.Amateur, self-maintained and 2. Designed by professional/Maintained by mali.Generally, the certificate and publicity is worth more to the prize winners.  There will be a separate category for Balcony and Terrace Gardens if there are large number of entries in this section.

The judging is done for 1.appropriateness of the garden to the house/apartment 2. health of plants 3. variety of plants 4. special features/massing of plants 5. layout and design, where applicable, 6. colour scheme of displays 7. composting of kitchen/ garden trimmings in situ 8. re-use of water from sink, bathroom; Rain water harvesting, use of mulch and other water saving methods 9. cultivation of fruit plants and vegetables/spices 10 Maintenance of roadside plant outside the compound.

The judges may also give suggestions/advice for improvement, if possible.

For your registration, please give the following details

1. Name of the Competitor

2. Name of house owner, if other than the competitor.

3. Full address [House No., building, lane, ward/vaddo, village/town, taluka]

4. Contact details: Land line, mobile, email  

5. Landmark near your house.

6. Whether self maintained or professionally assisted.

Send your entries to "Miguel Braganza" <braganz...@gmail.com>  with copies to  "Yogita Mehra" <yogit...@gmail.com>, "Rena Fernandes" <rena_m...@yahoo.com> or post to the address below to reach by 20 December, 2011.

Mog asundi

Miguel

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Miguel A. Braganza, House No.5/4-A

Opposite Zonal Agriculture Office & Farm

Xettiavaddo, MAPUSA- 403507 Goa. INDIA
Ph +91-9822982676; 91-832-2255139
www.brittosoba.com www.konkanfruitfest.com

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[sunit...@gmail.com]

Sounds good! There is no mention of Jaivik gardening so will those using pesticides and fertilizers also register and be eligible for prizes?

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From: Miguel Braganza <braganz...@gmail.com>

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Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 02:30:03 +0530

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Subject: All Goa Home Garden Competition

[Miguel Braganza]

Dear Sunita,

You bet the folks using pesticides and fertilizers will have the best looking gardens, be proud of them ..... and win prizes. Those are exactly the persons we need to "convert" to JAIVIK gardening, growing their own vegetables, composting the kitchen/garden wastes and using herbal/microbial insect management! The judging criteria send out a clear message, without being 'preachy'.

The first principle of missionary work is: engage the non-believer. There can be no further conversion by preaching to the converted. 

If no one had challenged me to think of organic agriculture, I would not have thought of it as a plausible option four years ago. Even while I worked part time for OFAI, replying to emails and preparing reports or text for "The Living Field" my landscaping business used phosphorus-based insecticides. I have six years training and a "Masters" degree in Industrial Agriculture with distinctions to boot! Persons who did not even know to speak well in English ... like my Jaivik hero Mr. D. N. Gopalkrishnan from Trichy ... converted me by their actions. He had more earthworms than I ever saw in my entire life before, used vermicompost and grew crops with saline water in saline soil and obtained better yields per acre than others could do with good soil, good water and all the fertilizers in the world.

A year later, Yogita Mehra refused to sell my book on GROWING VEGETABLES because it had a few  'safe' pesticides in them like Carbendazim and some sure-fire pesticides like Monocrotophos. Thus was born the book entitled "Growing Vegetables ORGANICALLY", which sold more copies in a year than the other had sold in a decade.  It now needs another edition ..... because readers want to know more.

When you have the time and inclination, ask a Christian who is knowledgeable about the Bible about two guys, Peter, the staunch supporter of Jesus who denied him thrice when the chips were down and Saul, the terror of all followers of Jesus ... till he was converted to Paul.

Once you understand the difference between the Biblical Peter and Paul [the feast of both of whom we celebrate on 29 June] you will understand why the pesticide using gardeners need to be a part of the Home Garden competition. It is nothing about robbing Peter to give Paul. Paul is the "game changer" ... the "convert" from something staunchly opposed to what one preaches.

Jaivik is not the mere substitution of fertilizers and pesticides with manures and bio/herbal control .... it is a way of life. It needs TOTAL CONVERSION ... something that many protagonists of organic farming are as averse to as some Catholic priests. They focus on rituals and think they are spiRITUAL, which they are not. It is an issue we are grappling with in the PGS Organic Council, too.

There is no point in being a smug "I am more Jaivik than thou". One is either jaivik or not .. and one either wants to convert others or not.

Warm regards,

Miguel

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 7:09 AM, <sunit...@gmail.com> wrote:

Sounds good! There is no mention of Jaivik gardening so will those using pesticides and fertilizers also register and be eligible for prizes?

Dears ,

The Botanical Society of Goa will conduct the judging for the 16th annual Home Garden Competition on Sundays 08 and 15 January, 2012. It would be nice if you register for the same and encourage others with good gardens to do likewise. It will be an incentive to make good gardens better. 

The judging is done for 1.appropriateness of the garden to the house/apartment 2. health of plants 3. variety of plants 4. special features/massing of plants 5. layout and design, where applicable, 6. colour scheme of displays 7. composting of kitchen/ garden trimmings in situ 8. re-use of water from sink, bathroom; Rain water harvesting, use of mulch and other water saving methods 9. cultivation of fruit plants and vegetables/spices 10 Maintenance of roadside plant outside the compound.

Send your entries to "Miguel Braganza" <braganz...@gmail.com>  with copies to  "Yogita Mehra" <yogit...@gmail.com>, "Rena Fernandes" <rena_m...@yahoo.com> or post to the address below to reach by 20 December, 2011.

Mog asundi

Miguel

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Miguel A. Braganza, House No.5/4-A

Opposite Zonal Agriculture Office & Farm

Xettiavaddo, MAPUSA- 403507 Goa. INDIA

Ph +91-9822982676; 91-832-2255 139/913
www.brittosoba.com www.konkanfruitfest.com

www.ofai.org  www.pgsorganic.in
Horticulture.Facilitation.Networking
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