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Rajasthan Farmer Grows Sweet Success From Lemons, Reaps Healthy Profits in 2...
“Farming is not rocket science, anyone can do it,” suggests Abhishek Jain, as he narrates his farming journey. Passionate about eating natural and healthy food? Check out organic seeds here. “You just...
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Kerala School Dropout Stirs Rice Revolution, Empowers 500 Village Women!
When Yasmin Arimbra was sixteen, her father told her she could not study further due to financial constraints. “Come and help me in the paddy field instead,” was the unequivocal injunction. “It pained...
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Farmer Develops New Custard Apple That Doubles Yield, Has Fewer Seeds & More...
If you love sitaphal or custard apple, you’re likely to choose the fruit which promises a long shelf life, and has fewer seeds which don’t stick together. Once you cut open the fruit and find that it...
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‘The Accident Snatched My Ability to Walk, Not My Spirit’: Punjab’s Organic...
It was a hot summer day in May 2018. Karnail Singh, a farmer from the Bassi Ghulam Hussain village, was returning home after delivering fresh and organically grown seasonal veggies from his farm to his...
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‘Soldier Never Retires’: 80-YO Grows Organic Passion Fruit Amidst Rubber...
“Farming is just another way of working for the country,” Joseph Louis, a retired havildar tells me. A conversation with this ex-soldier is peppered with gems like these. Another one soon follows, “For...
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Kerala Farmer Invents New & Improved Grow Bag That Waters Itself! Here’s How
EK Eyo, 72, from Nedumkunnam, Kottayam has always loved farming and finds a lot of pride in saying that he is a farmer. “I am a fourth-generation farmer, and have been farming ever since my childhood,”...
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Nashik Man Uses Kitchen Waste, Grows 35 Organic Veggies In 3-Tier Terrace Farm!
Most people do not believe Sandeep Chavan, a former journalist in Nashik, when he claims of growing three vegetables in one square foot. He patiently waits for people to finish their mocking to tell...
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500 Punjab Kids Turn ‘Farmprenuers’, Grow Organic Veggies in School Grounds!
Since last one year, close to 500 students across 70 government schools in Punjab’s Mansa district have been quietly setting an example in healthy living that the entire nation should learn from. In...
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80-YO woman creates a 500-plant urban jungle in the heart of Chennai!
A thick canopy of trees shield the entrance of Saroja Thiyagarajan’s home, which is located in the corner of Anna Nagar B Sector, Chennai. The first thing one notices when entering her abode is the...
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Punjab Man Quits Job, Sets up Organic Gardens in Homes For Affordable Superfoods
It is no secret that Punjab’s cancer rates are the highest in the country. In fact, there is a ‘Cancer Train’ that leaves from Bathinda to Bikaner, Rajasthan every day carrying 60 odd cancer-affected...
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Zero Waste in 3 Years, 50 Organic Veggies Grown at Home: B’luru Couple Shows How
Three years ago, when the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) asked a Mahadevpura-based society to stop generating wet waste, there was a wave of mild panic among its 200-odd residents. While all...
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IT Engineer Leaves US Job to Turn Organic Farmer, Uses 50% Less Water & Earns...
When Suresh Devang, an IT professional working in California told his parents about leaving his job and taking up organic farming in India professionally, he faced protests in place of support. His...
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300 Plant Varieties in 1 Acre Increases Mysuru Farmer’s Profits to 10 Lakhs!
For years, Thammaiah PP had to continuously fight recurring problems of poor irrigation and crop failure despite practising organic farming since 1984. The primary concern was availability of water to...
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This Goa Couple Grow Their Veggies & Fish Without Using Soil or Chemicals!
Goa-based Peter Singh is 74-years-old, and his wife Neeno Kaur is 65. They are a power couple, setting an example of how to be self-reliant with food, and at the same time, converting biodegradable...
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Kolkata Society Takes Kids From Textbooks to Fields, Teaches Them to Farm!
An apartment complex in Kolkata’s Newtown came up with a way of engaging school students in producing organic vegetables and getting them closer to nature. By being in urban settings, kids are...
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Kerala Man Starts Farm On Terrace, Now Harvests 120 Kg of Organic Veggies...
If you ever visit the White Magic Shooting Floor Studio in Ramanatukaara, a picturesque town in Kerala, you can be sure that you won’t be leaving with just pictures. The studio is also home to a...
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Kerala Techie Quits Job, Now Farms 550 Exotic Fruits From Across The World!
After a string of failures with his startup ideas, William Mathews, an MCA graduate from Kappatumala, a village in Kozhikode, decided to move to the UAE. But in 2010, William left his job there,...
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Kerala Man’s Self-Sustaining 10 Acre Farm Gobbles Up the Waste of An Entire...
PM Illias from the Pulickal Panchayat in Malappuram, Kerala has been innately connected to nature since his childhood. Wanting to carve out a piece of heaven for himself, he began cultivating a forest...
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Here’s How This Kerala Engineer Grows 26 Types of Veggies In Just 60 Sq Ft...
Nasar, a resident of Arukutti, a town in the Alappuzha district, is an engineer who also doubles up as a farmer. Spending only 30 minutes on his farm, a plot of land measuring 60 square feet, every...
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In Just 5 Years, Kerala Woman Gets Entire Village to Grow Their Own Vegetables!
Twenty years ago, if someone would have told Seenat Kokkur that she would one day be an expert agriculturist and transform the lives of many women, she wouldn’t have believed it. But that’s precisely...
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