KHAPLI WHEAT · RABI 2025–26
Khapli: the season beyond the harvest
Young green leaves, tall wheat heads, a staggered harvest—and the work of turning hulled wheat into food. Our Rabi 2025–26 season, in photographs and films.
Read the story A FARM JOURNAL FROM NORTH INDIA
How food begins.
What a farm teaches.
Follow real seasons of banana, rice, chana and Khapli: the planting, the setbacks and the work between field and kitchen.
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Rooted inreal life.
Original photographs. Dated field notes. Room to learn.
Meet the journal ↗FROM THE FARM JOURNAL
Three crops.
Three stories to follow.
BANANA · KHARIF 2026
Banana: learning to look closer
Young plants, uneven growth and an infestation that brought us closer to the leaves. A photo story from a plantation still finding its way.
Read the banana story Planting, rain, leaf marks and the work of establishment.CHANA · RABI 2025–26
Chana: a harvest in its own time
Three varieties, uneven ripening and a harvest that unfolded over several weeks. A Rabi season in words and photographs.
Read the storyLATEST RECORDED NOTES
Between one crop
and the next.
A few pages from October’s notebook. These dated updates describe the recorded work on our farm.
A removal task finished
Manual wild-paddy removal in the rice recorded as 1718 was complete. The milestone belongs to that crop and task.
Open the crop notebookCare continues
The second top-dressing and earthing-up round was complete, with irrigation ongoing.
Open the crop notebookA Rabi beginning
Sowing was recorded as complete in the noted areas. Seedling emergence had yet to be confirmed.
Open the crop notebookFROM REAL FIELDS
When the season
changes the plan.
Field case / FIELD READING
An insect on the leaf. A question for the field.
A striped caterpillar, damaged leaves and a late-September response. What the banana photographs and dated notes tell us about an infestation.
Field case · 1 min read
Field case / FIELD READING
When the rain changed the plan
Water stood between young banana plants, and feeding had to wait. Follow the recorded decisions through a wet spell and the work that followed.
Field case · 2 min read
Field case / FIELD READING
Where the Khapli lay down
About a tenth of the Khapli was reported lodged. Hand cutting and further drying followed later in the season; the cause and yield loss remain unresolved.
Field case · 2 min readFOLLOW A CROP
From its first leaves
to the food it becomes.
CROP PROFILE
Banana
Planting, broad leaves and the care of a young plantation.
Explore banana
CROP PROFILE
Rice
From a green canopy to panicles, paddy and the bowl.
Explore rice
CROP PROFILE
Chana
Small pods, a staged harvest and the pulse inside.
Explore chana
CROP PROFILE
Khapli wheat
Tall heads, a hand-cut harvest and the husk around the grain.
Explore khapli wheatTHE NEXT CHAPTERMustardFrom sowing, onwards.
CROP PROFILE
Mustard
A new Rabi crop, beginning with seed and soil.
Explore mustardBEGIN WITH A QUESTION
Soil, pests, water.
Begin with the work.
Field Guide / 01
Feeding the soil, feeding the leaves
Basal feeding, top-dressing and foliar sprays, explained through a season in the banana and paddy fields.
Growing guide · 2 min readField Guide / 02
Before the sprayer comes out
Leafroller, insecticides, fungicides and the observations that make a treatment record useful.
Growing guide · 2 min read
Field Guide / 03
Water has its own timetable
Pumps, rain, drainage and crop stages: why irrigation begins with reading the field.
Growing guide · 2 min readLEAVES, ROOTS & GROWTH
What is happening to my crop?
Explore leaf damage, waterlogging and uneven ripening.
TOOLS & FIELD WORKWhich tool does the job?
See how a drill, cultivator, thresher and pump fit into the work.
HARVEST & THE PANTRYHow does grain become food?
See how rice, chana and Khapli change on their way to the kitchen.
A FEW MOMENTS FROM THE FARM
Pause here a little.
Leaves, light and the changing fields.
A little time in the life of the farm.
16 photographs · 5 films and moving photographs
More quiet moments
CURIOSITY GROWS HERE
You don’t need a farm
to feel at home.
A windowsill, a garden, a field — or simply an interest in how food begins. There’s room for you here.
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