WHY BEYOND ORGANIC?
Ecological Farming
Why Ecological?
What makes agriculture unsustainable and destructive is its transformed nature from biodiverse to monoculture and from organic to chemical ways of farming. The word ecological goes beyond 'organic' something that all of us are in blind pursuit of today. While 'organic food' just emphasizes on absence of chemical substance, 'ecological produce' puts together the vitalities of life for a healthy existence, and most importantly it upholds the law of nature such as biodiversity. Biodiversity contributes to soil health which essentially transforms to healthy, nutritious dietary diversity where as organic can't promise such wide range of holistic benefits.
Women Farmers
Why Women Farmers?
There is an inseparable relation between Women, Nature and Food.As a mother she always thrives to fetch and feed her children with the best food possible. Similarly such has been her care towards nature and every life around her.
It has been observed across the cultures that there is a fundamental difference between men and women farmers. In terms of their interaction, expectation and care towards the mother earth. While men chose to grow commercial crops expecting monitory returns, women always chose to grow food crops so that she can bring her home the food for her children and family and fodder for her cattle. While men try to extract maximum from soil, women pledge to retain the soil health and cares to feed the other life around her farm.
Enlightened Consumer
What do you mean?
You as an enlightened consumer will not approach this partnership as someone who is greedy after good organic food only to save you and your family health. You will rather enlarge your need for organic food into an ecological vision of being in partnership with the Daughters of the soil (small women farmers) and their efforts to ecologically produce that you need.
WHAT DO I GET?
Membership benefits
Other benefits
While you as an urban consumer will expect from these farmers to keep alive the continuous supply chain of safe food, they as people who toil on their soil day in and day out expect from you to reward their labour with a fair compensation both in monetary terms as well as in terms of your appreciation and share in food production process.
- Continuous supply of safe and nutritious food
- Dietary Diversity - More than 15 varieties of foods grown in rain-fed region around Zaheerabad- 100 km from Hyderabad
- Friendly association with small women farmers
- Visit to farms during sowing, weeding and harvest
- Opportunity to learn ecological farming
- Reward for providing health to your families besides contributing to sustain ecological agriculture and a way of life of women farmers.
- Networking with fellow enlightened consumers
- Opportunity to participate in consumer-farmer forums
Delivery options
Choose Your Plan
Pick-up at the DDS shop
Tellapur
You can collect the Produce from DDS-Disha shop at Tellapur at specific dates throughout the year. The produce will be available after the harvesting month. The price you get is about 20% less than the regular sale price at DDS-Disha shop at Tellapur.
Note: You can also take byproducts instead of the whole grain as listed above as per individual item's cost.
Farm visit
Zaheerabad
You can directly visit a centralized pick-up point at Zaheerabad and collect directly from farmers. DDS will facilitate this meet and consumers are expected to carry their own bags
Home Delivery
Your own home
Home delivery can be arranged at an additional cost.
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