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We are umrit farm (www.umrit.org), proud stewards of the land that has been home to humankind for millenniums and place to grow food.

In our practice, we utilize natural materials to replenish and enrich soil, especially locally available tree biomass in various ways. We have made hügelkultur beds, apply wood chips as mulch and logs as habitat to improve microbial life, organic carbon, organic matter, stable carbon, in the soil and growability of foods, to be naturally nutritious and health promoting.

Our practices are based on natural principles. We are committed to manage and maintain the land naturally. For any possibility or degree of failure, our practices shall leave behind benefits rather than harm, as many benefits will be realized for longer time. We believe, for any degree of harm that may arise from our practices, natural material will decompose, to become essential components of enriched soil, in a very short time. As stewards, our interest is to pass on the land in much better state than what we inherited, for sustenance of the farmland. 

We believe our initiatives have surpassed ideological bounds and have shown formative, substantial, measurable results.

As farmers, we believe utilizing synthetics have elevated possibility of long-term impact, to harm and degrade the land, soil, environment, ecology, human health; if not irreversible, very demanding to reverse. Without any doubts, intention of such use is not to harm, but is to grow foods, meant to feed. The lasting impacts of human industrial processes, causes to relocate harm before harmless decomposition, with higher probability of recycled into food chain.

Our practice has been of concern to many individuals and governing bodies, though well within our management capability, are facing actions of regulatory reversal. The concerns are degradation of land, soil, hazard and risk to the community. Rather than reversal, a monitoring approach would serve as better solution, to learn and understand the impacts of it and gain the knowledge from the practice to grow foods, to address the concerns.