Agriculture

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

FROM THE FIELDS

When Faced With Water Scarcity, Local Millets and Beans are Hardier Than Peas

Farmers working with Kilmora, a social enterprise in Uttarakhand, tell Yashvi Shah how their harvest has halved over the last five decades, especially as sources of water dry up.

Yashvi Shah

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

FROM THE FIELDS

In Odisha, Farming Festivals Archive Fast-Disappearing Indigenous Knowledge

The wait for mangoes, a cooling finger millet drink, one hundred coconuts. Abhijit Mohanty documents how summer festivals in Malkangiri, Odisha, preserve foodways of memories.

Abhijit Mohanty

FROM THE FIELDS

Farm Workers On How Heat Impacts Their Work

We spoke to agricultural workers from The Locavore's community of partner producers to understand how heat intersects with labour, especially for working women, and how they cope with rising temperatures.

Mukta Patil

PERSONAL ESSAY

Kheer and Curfew

For Soibam Haripriya, childhood foods look like her mother’s grief.

Soibam Haripriya

FROM THE FIELDS

A Legacy of Making Preserves and Coolers on a Forest-Farm in Pauri Garhwal

Divya Chowfin, the co-founder of Himalayan Haat, speaks to Throvnica Chandrasekar about farming within a natural ecosystem, running a business from the mountains, and why their bestselling Malta Cooler is also a family f…

Throvnica Chandrasekar

INSIDE MY KITCHEN

In Meghalaya’s Khweng, Dial Muktieh Remembers Foraging at Dusk

At Mei-Ramew Café in Khweng village, Dial Muktieh’s knowledge of home-cooked meals shines through her indigenous ways of cooking and use of locally available ingredients. Photo by Team Locavore.

Nidaphi Hynniewta

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