Earth Story Farms: Bengal’s Native Flavours
Based in the Segunsara village, around 200 kilometres from Kolkata, Earth Story Farms aims to bring urban consumers back to the traditional and earthy flavours of Bengal.
Posts by author
The Locavore Team
561 posts
Necessitatibus qui quia voluptas autem. Assumenda magnam similique ut. Quisquam deleniti vel porro ipsum ab molestiae.
Beyond Malt: Discovering the Secret to Millet Beers
Brewing with millets has been a notoriously difficult project for most beer makers. But Great State Aleworks, a Pune-based brewery, has cracked the code. The Locavore team talks to Shivani Unakar, Project Coordinator of the Millet Beer Project, about their brewing journey and millet beers.
Serendipity Arts Festival
Through an immersive Culinary Arts curation at one of South Asia’s largest multidisciplinary arts festivals, we encouraged visitors to reexamine their relationship with food and its many aspects, including memory and identity, farming practices, and how our food reaches our plates.
Wild Jai Farm: Stepping into a Biodiverse Territory
Coexisting with the flora and fauna of the region, Wild Jai Farm is home to seven varieties of indigenous mangoes, chikoos, and coconuts along with several forms of wildlife.
Tani Naturals: Zero Waste Cold-pressed Oils
Based in Karnataka, Tani Naturals is known for its first cold-pressed oils made of peanuts, sesame, niger, and other seeds.
The Manduva Project: Andhra’s Hand-me-down Recipes
By bringing the focus back to foods that represent regional cuisine, The Manduva Project aims to convey the power of documenting recipes and stories, largely lacking in several cuisines in the Indian subcontinent
Tenacious Bee Collective: Focussing on Quality and Community
Spread across Himachal Pradesh and Kashmir, Tenacious Bee Collective works with local beekeepers of these fragile ecosystems, working with hive-based products, including a variety of honey,uni- and multi-floral,and beeswax apothecaries.
Worli Koliwada Project
The Worli Koliwada Project, a collaboration with the RPG Foundation, drew attention to an 800-year-old fishing village in Mumbai, its inhabitants, and their diverse foodways, along with helping find new ways of income-generation.
‘Odisha Millets Mission is a People’s Programme’
What makes Odisha Millets Mission (OMM) stand out in a sea of other government programmes? The Locavore learns about how women Self-Help Groups are championing millets, and the inclusion of ragi ladoos in Anganwadi meals.
Fearless: The Spirit of Resilience and Innovation
Founder of Jokai Fearless Tea, Aditya Shah, tells The Locavore how over the last century and a half, the company has seen wars, famines, floods, and droughts, and still survived and thrived.