Nilgiri Marten Spices: The Best of Single-origin Spices
Founded in 2022 by Aswin Prasannakumar and Yathi Kumar, Bengaluru-based Nilgiri Marten Spices (NMS) aims to sell spices entirely traceable to the regions they are cultivated in.
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Ishka Farms: What It Takes to Grow Capers in India
Located in the dry scrublands of Niravi Pudhupatti village, about 45 kilometres from Tuticorin, is Ishka Farms,India’s only caper farm.
Balion Agrofoods: Tapping Into the Versatile Coconut Sap
Balion Agrofoods,a brand that offers products made from coconut sap,is based in the Sindhudurg district, a Konkan region abundant in coconut palms.
Earth Focus Foundation: Enabling Nature-based Livelihoods
Based in the Kanha forest of Madhya Pradesh, Earth Focus Foundation (EFF) is a community-led organisation working with farmers from the Baiga and Gond tribal communities.
Dongaon Local: Ghee From the Kitchens of Dongaon’s Women
Dongaon Local is named after the village it is set-up in where the village’s farming community closely interact with cows and often make ghee with surplus milk.
‘Longing for Home Food’ Project
'A Longing for Home Food’ Project, an offshoot of the curation at the eighth edition of the Serendipity Arts Festival, is a listening experience cataloguing people’s oral food memories and recipes through conversations that invoke a familiar sense of home.
Mason & Co.: Celebrating a local bean-to-bar chocolate movement
Based in Auroville, Pondicherry, Mason and Co. is a chocolate company with a focus on building a local bean-to-bar movement in South India.
Himalayan Haat: Fruits and herbs from the jungle farms of Pauri Garhwal
Situated in the mountains of Uttarakhand, Himalayan Haat is a social enterprise that practices jungle farming in Pauri Garhwal, a district in the southeastern part of the state.
Earth Story Farms: Bengal’s Native Flavours
Based in the Segunsara village, around 200 kilometres from Kolkata, Earth Story Farms aims to bring urban consumers back to the traditional and earthy flavours of Bengal.
Beyond Malt: Discovering the Secret to Millet Beers
Brewing with millets has been a notoriously difficult project for most beer makers. But Great State Aleworks, a Pune-based brewery, has cracked the code. The Locavore team talks to Shivani Unakar, Project Coordinator of the Millet Beer Project, about their brewing journey and millet beers.