Karnataka

KARNATAKA

The Slow Exit of Foraging in Urban Blue Spaces

‘The Slow Exit of Foraging in Urban Blue Spaces’ (2026) by Jyotsnika Tiwari for ‘Mongabay India’.

Jyotsnika Tiwari

KARNATAKA

Kai Thota

Kai Thota is a collective farming model built around the premise that growing food well is not predicated on land ownership or prior farming experience, but shared values, trust, and the willingness to learn.

The Locavore Team

CULTURE

What Are Seeds, When Not Sold?

Oishika Roy explores experiences of seed savers and scientists to gather proof of relationships between people and seeds beyond that of money: generational, and through the principle of commons.

Oishika Roy

EVERYDAY LOCAVORES

“The root crops are at risk of disappearing, […] compelling Reshma and Nagveni to strive to protect them”

—Reshma and Nagveni, a duo rooting for tubers in Joida, Karnataka

Spudnik Farms

MILLET REVIVAL PROJECT

Songs of Survival: The Cultural Memory that Kept Millets Alive

Certain food memories linger in a community’s collective consciousness long after the food itself may have disappeared from people’s plates and farmers’ fields. Sohel Sarkar writes on the farming songs and rituals that h…

Sohel Sarkar