Eat Different: Understanding Communities and Their Practices Through Ingredients

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This is an audio series about forgotten and buried foods and farming practices. Plough through it to sow seeds for authentic debates involving communities, food security and life. Producer: Anupama Chandrasekaran Visit us here

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  1. Seed Saving Farmers Struggle to Protect Hardy Plant Species

    05/19/2021

    Seed Saving Farmers Struggle to Protect Hardy Plant Species

    Seed saving is an age-old act of conserving varieties and propagating them. Members of this vanishing guild share stories of astounding and resilient varieties of grains and vegetables that are a boon in a climate-changing world.

    34 min
  2. Foraged Plants and Insects - Food Gems of Indigenous People

    05/18/2021

    Foraged Plants and Insects - Food Gems of Indigenous People

    Forest dwellers have always known the how, why, when, what and where of foraged foods. Seasonal weeds, medicinal plants, squirmy insects form a part and parcel of their stunning and delicious food platter.

    32 min
  3. Farming to Have More Leisure

    05/17/2021

    Farming to Have More Leisure

    Modern agricultural practices are a barrage of poison on our foods and lands. A gentle approach of tending soil, water and crops without any synthetic dressing results in food security alongside an afternoon nap.

    34 min
  4. The Dalit Non-cookbook

    05/12/2021

    The Dalit Non-cookbook

    Dalit writers refuse to label a collection of their family recipes as a cookbook. The desist because it diminishes the truths of their sorrowful past.

    23 min
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This is an audio series about forgotten and buried foods and farming practices. Plough through it to sow seeds for authentic debates involving communities, food security and life. Producer: Anupama Chandrasekaran Visit us here

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