Farm

Turn your home into a green classroom — grow jackfruit with your kids and teach them sustainability, patience, and the joy of harvesting their own food.

Nitya and Jayalakshmi Ganapathy, residents of Mumbai, launched Nei Native, a venture that aims to bring back the traditional bilona method of ghee making.

Looking for an ecofriendly farmstay in Bengaluru? Techie Srivathsa Govindaraju has built a unique farm with over 350 types of rare plants.

Yussouf Khan, a horticulturist from Himachal Pradesh practices protected cultivation at his farm. He has six greenhouses that provide ideal growth conditions for the plants.

This 50-year-old school teacher transformed a garbage dump at the Kerala State Government NGO quarters into a vegetable patch.

Goa’s first community agricultural college was set up by Manguirish Pai Raiker 7 years ago.

While he cannot perform manual labour, Singh takes care of pretty much everything else—from deciding cropping patterns, monitoring the sowing, maintenance and harvest activities, overlooking the preparation of Jeevamrut and other biopesticides, and travelling to market his produce and training other farmers!

Once a plot of land with merely 40-50 mango trees and two huge tamarind trees, today, it boasts of more than 2,500 trees.

Apart from producing 100 per cent naturally-grown and ripened mangoes that have found patrons across Hyderabad, they have also been using Subash Palekar’s Zero Budget Natural Farming Method to grow an array of crops.

The change was not limited to what he had to unlearn, but in a shift in his mindset. Since he genuinely enjoyed farming, the transition was not that difficult.