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Couple Returns From the US to Become Full-Time Farmers, Grows Everything They...
How “organic” should organic be? Does “organic” automatically mean healthy and planet-loving? Should we bring in “packaging, ethical-farming, community development” into the definition of organic?...
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5 Online Places to Buy Quality Organic Seeds For Your Home Garden
One of the biggest challenges for urban gardeners and farmers during the lockdown has been the lack of options when it comes to sourcing good quality organic seeds. “Growing your own food is both a...
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How to Grow Nutritious Microgreens At Home Using A Simple Kitchen Ingredient
Microgreens are the first true leaves produced from the seedling of a vegetable or herb. These tiny leaves are imitations of their mature counterparts and are packed with intense flavour and nutrition....
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Over 2000 Children Turn into Microgreens Farmers During the COVID-19 Lockdown
“Education is not just lessons and books. A larger part of it is learning something new and that should be more of a holistic experience. Something you can actively involve yourself in, and grow as it...
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Mother-Daughter Show How to Make Organic Fertilizer Using Waste Tea Grounds
India’s obsession with tea has been written about countless times. From saplings being grown in plantations in Assam in 1824 to the ubiquitous roadside tea stall seen everywhere today, tea has become a...
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Curry Leaves to Drumstick, Bengaluru Man Grows Vegetable Forest In 10×10 Space
It is a common belief that growing vegetables in a balcony or maintaining a terrace garden requires a large amount of space for a small amount of produce. But 37-year-old Devaraj K from Bengaluru...
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IIT-H Professor Grows 24 Veggies in 200-Yard Terrace Garden, Gets Bumper Tapioca
In 2019, Deepak John Mathew, a professor at IIT-Hyderabad planted tapioca in his home garden. Eight months later, he got a bumper harvest of 24 kg tapioca, which was four times the estimated average...
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Presenting: The Better India’s Best of 2020 – Heroes of Sustainability
This article is a part of The Better India’s ‘Best of 2020’ — A list of 60 awesome changemakers recognised and honoured by The Better India this year. This is a celebration of remarkable people who...
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Delhi Woman Shares How She Grows 40+ Varieties of Fruits & Veggies In...
In 2014, when 60-year-old Irene Gupta converted her house into an apartment complex she dedicated a portion of her terrace to a small garden. “Earlier, we had space around the house and there would be...
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Started Due to Vit-D Deficiency, 65-YO Grows 250 Plants in Refrigerators &...
“I decided to grow a few varieties of spinach on my terrace,” begins Jayanti Vaidyanathan, a resident of Chennai, who was diagnosed with a Vitamin D deficiency in 2013. “Apart from the medicines...
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3 Nature-Based Solutions That Are Making Low-Income Communities Resilient to...
Dr Pramila Sanjaya has lived in Jaipur for over 60 years. Through this time, she has watched the city grow and expand over existing villages. “What used to be farms have now been converted into...
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10 Revolutionary Ideas for Smart Farming From Ordinary Citizens the Govt...
The government realises the need to bring about major changes into agriculture and incorporating the benefits of the digital revolution for better results. Through MyGov.in, citizens can suggest ideas...
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This Mumbai Ecopreneur Has Been Turning City Dwellers Into Urban Farmers for...
Priyanka Amar Shah attributes her love for greenery to her “nature loving family.” The Mumbai resident grew up in a suburban home whose balconies were always adorned with plants. It was also her...
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These IIT Kharagpur Alumni Show How You Can Grow Organic Veggies on Your Rooftop
Friends from the IIT Kharagpur, Saahil Parekh and Kaustubh Khare never imagined that they would helm a startup. Post graduation, both arrived in Delhi—Saahil worked as a sustainability researcher at...
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Help This Urban Farmer Feed Old Age Homes Through His Hydroponic Farm
Ever wondered what it would be like to grow your vegetables at home? One might looked puzzled and say, “Sure! But in an urban setting? Is there even enough space?” Well, one program manager based in...
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This Pune Techie Quit His Well-Paying Job to Promote Organic Farming
If you think what qualms could one possibly have about their life as a computer engineer, you should talk to Hemal Patel. This Pune-based techie quit his comfortable well-paying job to embark on a...
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Pune Woman Transforms 3,500 Sqft Plot Into Organic Garden That Feeds Three...
Pune-based Sujata Naphade was born with green fingers. She belongs to an agrarian family, and her mother-in-law is also a farmer. Her family advocates organic farming and growing up; she had always...
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This Man’s Awesome ‘Farm-on-Terrace’ Has Over 1000 Plants & 40 Bonsai Trees!
Tunku A Jaleel, a freedom fighter from Indonesia worked closely with the Indian freedom fighters in Kolkata (erstwhile Calcutta) back in the 40s. During his stay in the nearby villages of Somariya, he...
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This ‘Green’ Masala Brand Is Helping 2000+ Farmers, Students in Pune Manage...
An endeavour that began as the CSR initiative of a spice-manufacturing brand has resulted in helping over 900 farmers and 1500 students rethink waste management strategies. Anand Chordia, the Director...
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Live Green: 5 Startups That’ll Help You Set Up An Organic Urban Farm From...
Who said one could be a farmer only if one has acres of land? Once upon a time, this might have been true, but, in recent times, the breed of urban farmers in India is burgeoning due to the growing...
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