Mumbai Koli Project
An impact campaign inspired by the film Against the Tide, the Mumbai Koli Project aims to spotlight the city’s original fisherfolk, the Koli community, and their evolving relationship with the sea, while encouraging Mumb…
Projects
The Locavore‘s Projects engage with challenges in the Indian food system. Through our projects, we hope to create long-lasting impact built on research, knowledge, and collaboration. With food at its heart, our work is multidimensional, intersecting with sustainability, communities and livelihoods, the climate crisis, and documenting culinary traditions.
Millet Revival Project
The Millet Revival Project, in collaboration with the Rainmatter Foundation, aims to reinvigorate our relationship with millets through research, events, community engagement, recipes, and impactful storytelling.
Freedom From Hunger: A Collaborative Fundraising Project
Over 190 million Indians go to sleep on an empty stomach every night. This grim reality prompted us to launch 'Freedom from Hunger’, a fundraising initiative that actively supports hunger-relief organisations and their r…
‘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 t…
Serendipity Arts Festival
Through an immersive Culinary Arts curation at one of South Asia’s largest multidisciplinary arts festivals, we encouraged visitors to reexamine their relationship with food and its many aspects, including memory and ide…
Wild Food Project | Palghar, Maharashtra
The Wild Food Project is an attempt to study, archive, and celebrate indigenous forest produce, and the vast traditional knowledge that surrounds it.
Worli Koliwada Project
The Worli Koliwada Project, a collaboration with the RPG Foundation, drew attention to an 800-year-old fishing village in Mumbai, its inhabitants, and their diverse foodways, along with helping find new ways of income-ge…
Serendipity Arts Festival ‘25
Join us at the landmark 10th edition of Serendipity Arts Festival with immersive curations and workshops that encourage attendees to examine what the futures of food—and its disappearance—looks like in an increasingly pr…
The Tiny Food Project: Alibag
In Narangi, Alibag, The Locavore and Tiny Miracles are working with Koli and Agri women to turn home-cooked traditions into independent livelihoods. Through this pilot, kitchens become spaces of skill, pride, and entrepr…