By Dr R Sudarshan
A home is where you have enough shelter, sunshine, air, food, water, and safety to bring up your babies to thrive and survive. If it is hanging at the tip of a twig and swinging by the wind, it is fine even if you have to walk a long mile to reach there to breed.
Ants on our farm are ingenious. They flock around the star fruit aphids that prick and suck the fruit nectar, secreting honeydew. Nesting near aphids will secure the life of ant babies. Building a fibrous nest in the base cleft of water apples to lay eggs, so that the little ones could crawl into the fruits to lick the sap - is another well-stocked homestead idea.
The most brilliant is a nest they build in the calyx of pomegranate, just like an inaccessible chateau in the French Alps. Safe, secure, well-stocked, and imperial.
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WHICH COLOUR IS BLACKBERRY?
By Dr R Sudarshan
At first, some white flowers bloom profusely on the vine. Then some green coloured berries suddenly appear like popping corn. They slowly turn rose and become ripe lip pink. Some of those globules of the berry hesitantly begin to turn chocolate if they survive the bird invasion. But most of them are gone too soon.
Where is that colour black in the berry? Is it that the berry digests all hues and black is just the glutton of colours?
On an organic farm, the farmer waits for fruits to ripen and show their real colours. But birds dine early on when the colour is what they want. Blackberry is black on Google. On the farm, rose pink is all that you reach.
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Padma Farms (Gaddige Road), Farmer's House, 1A, 13th Cross, Kalidasa Road, VV Mohalla, Mysore.
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