Home Is Where the Honey Is
Last Forest supports traditional livelihoods like honey hunting and millet farming among the indigenous peoples of the Nilgiris, home to one of the last shola forests in the region.
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Last Forest: Featuring Forest Produce from the Nilgiris
Working closely with a collective of indigenous tribes, this enterprise supports traditional livelihoods of honey hunting and forest farming.
Wild Food Project | Palghar, Maharashtra
The Wild Food Project is an attempt to study, archive, and celebrate indigenous forest produce, and the vast traditional knowledge that surrounds it.
‘To us, an activist approach is a people-centric approach’
A team of artists, writers, and researchers collaborate to create a graphic series that demystifies the laws and policies around food, and the food systems that we are part of.
Valley Culture: Flavours of the Himalayas
Based out of Dehradun, Valley Culture showcases native produce from Uttarakhand by sourcing ingredients from local farmers working in the Himalayan region.
OOO Farms: Levelling the field with profit-sharing practices
The idea for OOO Farms took root when Shailesh Awate, an ardent trekker, began to notice forest cover in the Sahyadris diminishing through the decades. Driven by the desire to preserve these forests, he started working with indigenous communities in the region to conserve native and indigenous seeds.
‘Being a father transformed my relationship to food and cooking’
Moving across continents makes everyday practices such as cooking and feeding much more self-conscious, Krishnendu Ray tells us. A renowned food studies scholar, Ray talks to us about his changed perception of cooking, parenting, and his Didu’s jaggery-sweetened moorki.
Pūrvīṇa: Bringing Kerala’s Oil-Making Traditions Back Into the Spotlight
While cold-pressed coconut oil has received a fair amount of attention in recent years, Purvina is bringing light to the dimming awareness of ventha velichenna, or hot-processed coconut oil.
Tillage – Bringing Back Millets and Forgotten Flours
We were first drawn to Tillage’s produce after hearing the passion with which siblings Saloni Anchan, a lawyer, and Shival Shah, a chartered accountant, spoke about local and seasonal ingredients.…
Umrani Farms
Located in Sangli in western Maharashtra, Umrani Farms is an organisation that specialises in indigenous raisin production.