Following heart surgery on her five-month-old son, doctors told Subhashree Santhya to give her son chemical-free vegetables, which she decided to grow on her own. Now an urban farmer, she has started an organic food brand called ‘Mud to Mother’.
Laxmikant Hibare, a resident of Kalaburagi, in Karnataka, only studied till class 10 but that didn't stop him from turning his ancestral land into a green haven.
A retd. engineer from Bengaluru, Nataraja Upadhya has created a thriving urban jungle on his terrace with 300 varieties of trees that host 50 types of butterflies and about a dozen birds. Here's how he did it
Momee Pegu, from Majuli, Assam, started RIGBO in 2015, and has trained women in her village in how to convert 11,000 kg of water hyacinth into organic compost
“I had almost eleven different varieties of brinjals last year,” she tells me. There’s also lady’s finger, corn, bitter gourd, bottle gourd, snake gourd, beans, different kinds of greens, tomato, five varieties of sweet potato, radish, and turmeric.