Selecting a land for farming

we have never been to hosur meaning except for visiting the famous ChandraChoodeshwar temple, a Shiva temple atop the rocks.

other than that we don’t know anything about the place. yes it has a lovely climate. mimics Bangalore. and a lot of flowers grew there.

when we decided to move back we started looking for land in Hosur. I was speaking to many people while in London. why Hosur? because it was closer to Bangalore and I predicted that one day when COVId was over, they will ask us to come to the office.

Since we do not have experience buying a land before we were very skeptical. Heard so many stories of people cheating you with the money, land with litigations etc.

one promoter and land caught my eye and as usual my instinct asked me to go with it.

my husband was terrified, he asked me how can you trust someone who we don’t know at all, no background knowledge about the promoter, nothing. I said lets go and see when we go back to India.

I left the UK in July because my Dad was in death bed, and spent some time with him administering him with my herbs That is a whole different story and why I strongly believe in Siddhars came from there.

He passed away in October and my husband came back just before the second covid wave in December.

How my husband was treated in Bangalore just because he had just come from the UK, is a story that you cannot believe.

one thing I learned since COVID nothing is permanent and so we do not need to be a high horse with a king size ego. Usually people feel very jealous of you when you say that you are settled in the west. And we used to feel nice to say that we are in the UK. But after December 2020 we were scared to even say that. Since the covid impact was very high in UK, people treated us like aliens and they jumped away from us. To register yourself in the police station that you are from other countries, there was a separate queue for the UK, and people kept themselves far away from us.

All egos shattered and brought to the earth.:)

Immediately after his quarantine was over, we started hunting for lands. we almost covered the entire Hosur I should say. all villages, roads, gullies. obviously when you want a farmland you have to go interiors. And TATA was buying lands for its projects like anything. And OLA too. Now bigger companies.

there was a place which we liked and we wanted to buy it But the entire family which consists of some 29 members from three generations had to sign and few of them wanted a lot of money. money is in laks here I mean.

we were never aware of the land laws. there were first time land seller. meaning they had the land since 1950 or something and few had issues with the family tree.

Boy I was alarmed and thought that my dream of buying a land is crumbling.

Our son was very clear that we need to get within a gated community because we will have some security.

people coming midnight and occupying your land threatening you, was another scary story that we heard.

there was another place that was too good to be true. a Hanuman temple at its entrance and a plain land. almost we said yes, but something was bothering me. why no one else bought it?

then I heard through another person, that a lot of elephants come to that land. Done.

when we questioned the owner, he casually said, yes, but it will not come closer. ok..

every weekend Saturday morning as early as 6 we leave go to Hosur pick the brokers up and start seeing the places. they would have lined up lands. each was in a different direction and few places we had to walk so much to reach the land.

then finally we decided to buy the land that we initially saw from the UK. it was a barren 30 acre land with many owners. there were few fruit trees but they were in the land which belonged to a different owner.

we were the first buyers, the promoter had many plans to convert into a resort, a farmland a village and many more. only thing made us buy was my instinct. He said that he is going to put a fence around the entire land.

in. 2021. April we bought and started preparing the vegetable patch. There were no restrooms, no food, no shade to sit and rest. We had just started construction, and we had to come to the main road (around 10 kms) for food and restroom.

with all this struggle we had to face criticism from people that how can we do farming without any knowledge. And that too organic farming?

to be continued……