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Visit of Agriculture Students to Bhargava Dham, Elqui Valley, Chile

– Carolina Morales
Agronomist

During the month of August 2022, a volunteer program was offered to a group of students from the Technician in Ecological Agriculture career course. There were 14 people who participated for 3 days in Bhargava Dham, located in the Elqui Valley.

During the program there was outstanding support provided by
Carlos Bustamante and Milena:
-Daily practice of Sunrise and Sunset Agnihotra
-Daily practice Gayatri Mantra at noon
-Pruning Fruit orchard: fig, pear, apricots trees.
-Application of compost and Agnihotra ash.
-Fivefold Path Workshop.
-Sanskrit and Mantras workshop.

In addition, the volunteer students enjoyed the Cochiguaz River and pursued relaxation and recreation activities.

The main objective of this visit was to EXPERIENCE the practice and discipline of Homa Therapy and its application in agriculture, through fun, participatory activities that allow the volunteer to personally and collectively experience the applicability of the effects of a Homa environment and in such an important energy point for the planet-
BHARGAVA DHAM
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Applications of Homa Biosol on Horticulture Crops


 Photo: Effect of application of Homa Biosol on crop fruiting in Bhargava Dham, Elqui Valley

Agronomist
Carolina Morales Pavez,
Elqui Valley, Chile

Horticulture crops must be provided constantly with the necessary nutrition in order to facilitate both growth and development; that means so that it can generate its botanical structures such as the root, stem, leaf, flowers and fruition among others.

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Agnihotra Ash Recharges Well Water During Drought


 Photo: Juan José Rodrigues began to go every day to the well to put Agnihotra ash in it.

Karina Ohme
Homa Farm ‘Satsang’
Curacavi, Chile, South America

Chile is facing the worst drought in its history. Radio Cooperativa, one of the country’s main news stations, warned of the catastrophic situation experienced because of the serious water crisis and agricultural emergency.
It added that according to Greenpeace, “Chile is the country with the greatest water crisis in the entire Western Hemisphere and 76 percent of its territory is affected by drought.”

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Fivefold Path Foundation of Chile Participates in the First Chilean Congress of Agroecology

With the conference "Scientific Experiences Applying Homa Ecological Agricultural Technology in the Great North of Chile" and the poster "Elaboration of the Methodology and use of the fertilizer & bio stimulant Gloria Biosol Homa as an agroecological and economic alternative for Organic Agriculture", the Fivefold Path Foundation Quintuple participated on October 17th and 18th, 2019 First Chilean Agroecology Congress held in Pucón, Chile. Continue reading “Fivefold Path Foundation of Chile Participates in the First Chilean Congress of Agroecology”
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Volunteering at the Satsang Homa Farm, Curacavi, Chile
Juan Rodríguez and Karina Ohme, the Guardians of Satsang, a farm where Homa Therapy is practiced, wrote:

Building together an Ark of Love and Service
With each new volunteer who participates in Satsang, we feel that we are being revealed more and more our deepest purpose, as well as the relevance of creating these "Arks" through the world, spaces of re-encounter with Nature, with ourselves and with the sacred legacy of the Vedas, the Agnihotra. We are deeply grateful of the beautiful experiences we live with each volunteer, their teachings, learning, joys and friendship … Thank you! Continue reading “Volunteering at the Satsang Homa Farm, Curacavi, Chile”
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Advances of Homa Farming in Satsang Farm, Curacavi, Chile

by Carolina Morales Pavez,
Agricultural Engineer

      The development of organic Homa farming in the Satsang farm,  located in Curacaví-Chile, has had important advances in respect to the agro-ecological design developed by Karina Ohme and Juan José Rodrigues.

      This involves aspects on biological adaptation of the agro-ecosystem through the establishment of a greater diversity of species, in addition to the functional and native flora, the medicinal and aromatic herbs and horticultural crops, important for food. Continue reading “Advances of Homa Farming in Satsang Farm, Curacavi, Chile”
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Homa Ecological Farming Workshop at Technology Center For Sustainability, Santiago, Chile

 By Carolina Morales Pavez, Agricultural Engineer

       The Technological Center for Sustainability (CTS) invited the ‘Quintuple Sendero’ (Fivefold Path) Foundation to hold a workshop on Homa Ecological Farming, in its dependencies in the community Buin – situated in the Metropolitan Region. Continue reading “Homa Ecological Farming Workshop at Technology Center For Sustainability, Santiago, Chile”
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Canchones Agricultural Experimental Station of Arturo Prat University, Iquique, Chile

 By Carolina Morales Pavez,
Agronomist

During the Spring-Summer season in 2006 – 2007 at the Canchones Experimental Station, belonging to the Arturo Prat University of Iquique-Chile, an experiment was carried out with the cultivation of melon (Cucumis melo, cultivar Arava), under two systems of cultivation: Homa Agriculture and Conventional Agriculture (use of agrochemicals). In this sector, the records under the conventional production system indicate that this crop takes between 5 to 6 months to be ready for harvesting and marketing.
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Irma Castillo, Region of Antofagasta, Chile, Receives Recognition from Agro-Ecological Symposium

Award for Development of Homa Ecological Agriculture in First Symposium for Family Agriculture

   
The Agricultural Development Institute (INDAP), of the Chilean Ministry of Agriculture, organized on 6 and 7 September 2017, the 1st Symposium on Agro-ecology for Family Agriculture. Recognition was given for the creativity and effort to those small farmers and/or their organizations, which develop agro-ecological production systems in the country’s agricultural food sector. Continue reading “Irma Castillo, Region of Antofagasta, Chile, Receives Recognition from Agro-Ecological Symposium”
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Organic Certification for ‘Satsang’ Homa Farm, Curacaví, Chile

Satsang is part of the Organization of Organic Producers of Curacaví
        On Friday, May 5th, Curacaví, OPOC’s Internal Control Officer, Sebastián Morales, visited the Satsang farm to verify on the ground that it meets the requirements of the Chilean regulations to be declared an organic farm. During the inspection, Sebastián Morales approved of the organic Homa cultivation techniques that are used in Satsang, a farm that last year was registered with OPOC in Chile.

       The following weekend, on Sunday, May 14th, members of the Forest Guard Network, led by Isidora Huici and Fabián Guerrero, visited the Satsang farm to harvest seeds of native Chilean trees, such as Boldo, Quillay and Peumo, to help reforesting the hills affected by forest fires in Chile last summer.
      At the time, the volunteers of the Network also took Agnihotra ash to mix with the seeds, helping their healthy and vigorous germination and growth.
(Photographs: courtesy of Fabián Guerrero)

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