{"id":50554,"date":"2023-10-13T13:39:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T11:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=50554"},"modified":"2023-10-13T16:32:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T14:32:53","slug":"the-spiral-farm-house-in-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/the-spiral-farm-house-in-nepal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spiral Farm House in Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Spiral Farm House is a biodynamic farm and teaching center in southern Nepal.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/EN_Nepal_Spiralfarmhouse_2-1500x508.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50663\" width=\"750\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/EN_Nepal_Spiralfarmhouse_2-1500x508.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/EN_Nepal_Spiralfarmhouse_2-300x102.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/EN_Nepal_Spiralfarmhouse_2-770x261.jpg 770w, https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/EN_Nepal_Spiralfarmhouse_2-1536x520.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/EN_Nepal_Spiralfarmhouse_2-2048x693.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Terai plains in Southern Nepal are home to the Tharu indigenous people and are sometimes called \u201cthe grain house of Nepal.\u201d Many of the Tharu people are small-plot farmers, but their traditional ways of living and farming have been made increasingly difficult through climate change and a harsher economic environment, with the government pushing the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. The Spiral Farm House practices and promotes biodynamics in tandem with local, traditional agricultural techniques. Driven by the demand for more organic and biodynamic crops, their outreach has grown substantially in recent years; what started as a group of eight farms in 2019 expanded into a community of 70 by the end of 2022 and is still growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image source and more<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiralfarmhouse.com.np\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spiral Farm House<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spiral Farm House is a biodynamic farm and teaching center in southern Nepal. The Terai plains in Southern Nepal are home to the Tharu indigenous people and are sometimes called \u201cthe grain house of Nepal.\u201d Many of the Tharu people are small-plot farmers, but their traditional ways of living and farming have been made increasingly difficult through climate change and a harsher economic environment, with the government pushing the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. The Spiral Farm House [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17162,"featured_media":50661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8810,11356],"tags":[8803,8799],"class_list":["post-50554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","category-nepal-en","tag-news-en-2","tag-worldwide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}