Raphi Ramanath, a biology teacher from Kerala, has set up a herbal garden with 150 plants and a Miyawaki forest with over 450 trees on his school campus.
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“I would learn from everywhere. I would also speak to clients and they gave me a lot of information on what they used locally here. That is when I also started incorporating ingredients like aloe vera and curry leaves,” says Bindu.