Wild Foods Walk, Mumbai
A guided walk to discover wild foods in Mumbai's largest national park, led by Shailesh Awate from OOO Farms.
Events
Deepen your connection to India’s diverse local foods with The Locavore’s events. Our gatherings are joyous and purposeful, an essence of community at the heart. Whether it’s a four-day trip to Assam’s tea estates, thought-provoking discussions on millets, or a workshop on India’s lesser-known cheeses, our experiences are for anyone curious about flavours and stories.
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Understanding Millets and the Green Revolution
A session that looked to uncover just how nuanced and interlinked the history of the Green Revolution and millet cultivation in India is.
Wild Food Festival 2025
The seventh edition of the Wild Food Festival was centred around ‘Safeguarding the Future of India’s Wild Foods.’ The festival asked what it means to protect wild foods, and the communities that keep them alive in the fa…
Versova Koliwada Walk, Mumbai
Facilitated by Go Hallu Hallu co-founder Aslam Saiyad, and led by Koli community leader Rajhans Tapke, this guided walk explored the many facets of Versova Koliwada.
‘Against the Tide’ Screening and Conversation at MuSo, Mumbai
An evening of cinema and conversation with the makers of ‘Against the Tide’ (2023)— held as part of The Locavore’s Mumbai Koli Project— explored the shifting tides of Mumbai’s Koli community and their changing relationsh…
Hook, Line, and Thinker: A Quiz Night with ChefTZac
A pub quiz brought Mumbai’s coastal stories, indigenous Koli knowledge, and the documentary ‘Against the Tide’ into one lively night with ChefTZac.
Chef On The Road | Arunachal Pradesh
This Chef on the Road trip with ChefTZac explores Idu Mishmi food traditions in Arunachal Pradesh’s Lower Dibang Valley, hosted with the Elopa–Etugu Community Eco-Cultural Preserve (EECEP)—a community-led journey rooted…
Unpacking ‘The Great Indian Kitchen’: What Cinema Reveals about Gender, Domesticity, and Labour
A Malayalam-language film revolving around a newly married woman’s struggles in a conservative, patriarchal household nudges us to think about the harsh realities that gender and labour spawn within domestic spaces.
Beyond Basmati: Making Native Rices Part of Your Everyday Kitchen
Once home to nearly 1,00,000 indigenous varieties of rice, just a fraction dominate markets in India today. This online discussion explored the reasons behind their decline, unpacking how the pricing of commercial variet…