Eco India: Meet the people reviving local ingredients that have disappeared from India’s food map

Every week, Eco India brings you stories that inspire to build a cleaner, greener and better tomorrow. Our top story this week looks at how a Bengaluru-based artist has created a community of farmers and urban gardeners who are learning to grow the varieties of seasonal and local foods, that have slowly disappeared from their plates, in their kitchen gardens.
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CREDITS:
Supervising Producer: Nooshin Mowla
Director of Photography: Gurvinder Singh
Second Camera: Abhishek Singh Gaur
Video Editor: Sujit Lad
Field Producer: Juhi Chaudhary
Associate Producer: Shibika Suresh
Script: Juhi Chaudhary & Shibika Suresh
Executive Producer: Sannuta Raghu
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[@jsunny6151]

Sir My advice for you is , to whom ever you give seeds, ask them to return next year some seeds to you, by this you can make huge seeds banks and supply to many people. This can me like a movement. And reach all over India. My advice if like do it.

[@sangeethaa24]

Wow what a thought. I think he should see this msg, and should implement.

[@rstaurus1]

I live in Australia and we have same problem here as well. But we have swap and sell group where we swap crops and seeds. It’s good practice.

[@MakeSomeNoiseAgencyPlaylists]

@@rstaurus1 write to Suresh Kumar and trade seeds, would be awsome ! ♥️👍🏽

[@artisanryartsewingdesignbe7807]

Really great idea seriously it must come into focus so that we all can get fresh bread of seeds rather than hybrids with chemical courting

[@Yashvant5569]

Correct

[@jeet9029]

Keep sharing like this stories.... That inspired everyone... To start change with one person to another 😊👼

[@syedsarwarhussain7316]

My mom and me also used to do agricultural activities in our backyard and still my mom maintain the reserves of seeds she is growing the vegetables of sorts....

[@mayanktripathi8726]

...everyone should conserve seeds...like my father says that so may hyperlocal varieties of vegetables and fruits have kind of been lost

[@mastimacaroni]

Kudos to your mom ❤️

[@sujatasuvarna5774]

Superb u r blessed to have such upbringing under such guidance 🙏

[@youngforest8793]

Good

[@rajankothadiya8716]

My Uncle and Aunty are very active in planting vegetables on my terrace. It's a good habit. It also gives a feeling of Farmer's children. Plants become our family and also distresses us. They are great in the Monsoons.

[@RK-pi1kr]

19 people who disliked this video are hybrid seed sellers 😃😃

[@asoweoasola2648]

Hybrid, 😄,,well said,really,😄😁😁😁,,

[@anitanair9492]

They themselves are hybrid, i.e. not bred naturally.

[@rasbijalpatel310]

Good catch. Very sad. Like their opinion matters.

[@daniellaassa4881]

Hahaha

[@littleeffortsbyme3282]

Old Is Gold kzbin.info/www/bejne/q6uweomCZZyUf80

[@sahadevbhogale726]

Like your every video shows the real thing that no one showcases. Main stream media don't care about these small things. These is the truth of our country

[@HemantHgupta]

Amazing work... Harsh hidden fact that farmers don't grow their own food... This could make them sustainable n cost saving 👏.. Great coverage scroll the best media in India...

[@konica25]

I am south Indian Bangalore.now I am living in NZ. Here from last year I have started gardening,can grow vegetable only from spring to autumn.but not in winter.last year ,we brought very less vegetable from market.my one bottle gourd plant gave me 10-12 bottle gourd.i shared almost 6 bottle gourd with my neighbors.tomato too, green chillies, coriander,capsicum, pumpkin,butter beans.now it's spring end.i have spring onion ,carrots in my garden.here almost every one grows vegetable in their small garden. This gradening helped me to teach my kid lots about plant and plant varieties.till now I never had an idea "how much I love growing my own vegetables"

[@accelwell7018]

Thank you so much for posting this love from the US. I really wish I could give this to thumbs up

[@abhinavneoharysvarma8551]

This is so inspiring, if I had a bigger balcony or terrace I would've tried this. Currently I'm just growing chillies in my balcony

[@prabhalaprasanna7259]

When I am collecting seeds some people used to think as I am fool. But after watching this I felt very happy and how important these seeds r

[@shreyashtodkari908]

I love food from karnataka. Great work by our kannadigas. We need to this in overall country.

[@sonalbhandari8608]

All the ladies in my family are very passionate about plants❤️it gives them immense joy, especially flowers and everyone have a very beautiful garden including our staple coconut trees and banana.Every time we have a family reunion there is always a plants and seeds exchange session between them..😁😁 I certainly was not interested in gardening but now I can really tell it's very imp❤️

[@Native-Kitty]

What a beautiful story! I hope the gardening project continues to grow bigger.

[@nimeshganatra9932]

These people are the real hope for the future of India, future of Human kind. One day I also want to do something like this.

[@forgottenfoodswithmeenu7084]

I feel so connected with this approach of eating local foods . But it’s difficult to bring people follow this tough path 🤔

[@jyotsanasabharwal4197]

Love your kind of work so nice no one thinks about mother nature only money makers hat's off for u

[@poojabhandary1783]

Happy to see native seeds reviving.. sad to see native language dying in Bangalore

[@deekshav27]

For as long as Kannadigas converse in a language which the non-Kannadigas are comfortable with, not much can be done to save Kannada.

[@sathwikreddymuthyala5192]

Same with Hyderabad, here mixture of people live, so I am a native, when I speak my native language, they laugh, so our native language is too dying

[@aprilblossoms4]

Exactly I could not hear any of these folks talking in Kannada. What is that about!

[@hearmeroar6691]

Same in Mumbai and Pune. Less Marathi.

[@nirupamakumar3917]

@@aprilblossoms4 didnt they speak kannada at the dinner table ?

[@senthilkumarn4u]

Simple ingredients like green chillies tomatoes have undergone too much change while we are busy in front of screens..

[@shivamjoshi2412]

Excellent content! Great videography and editing. Looking forward to viewing more such inspiring stories from the team.

[@raikasatish]

Why ???? Why this is not the most subscribed KZbin channel of India??

[@forgottenfoodswithmeenu7084]

Good things are difficult to propagate sir

[@ankitajha]

She is my inspiration! 😊♥️ Thank you for sharing this story.

[@PiyushKumar-sm7oy]

Thanks scroll for this quality content . Episodes of this programme provides us the opportunity to know and learn about nature . Please keep it up.👍👍👍

[@hudaswaleheen2230]

My mom make an effort to grow own food. And she's been doing for more then 20 years and she plans to cook whatever vegetable is available in garden. I miss being in India.

[@Chefazimkitchen]

Just loved it. When people connect with nature ! ❤️keep it up !

[@ashutoshrya]

a very great and thoughtful inspiring work, and yeah change starts with home

[@moubhattacharyya1141]

Real heroes of our country. Please keep bringing their stories to people. Thank you Brut.

[@evangelineranjan7541]

Such an eye opener, thank you for inspiring others to follow this path. Literal wake up call!

[@shruthit3104]

Awesome! Very informative and inspiring video. Thanks for sharing. Hope many people will start their own kitchen garden. And eat healthy😊

[@Lalitsharma084]

Dhanyawad for this... Inspiration...

[@eshasharma9349]

An extremely appreciable initiative. It has inspired me also as a mother to grow the food we eat.thanks a lot

[@sunitjain7333]

Thanks a lot reviving it...great job 👍

[@windsfchange]

Incredible!! Great work.

[@manojprabakaran087]

Great story and kudos to the Video Producer . Nice shots for the story

[@vijaykumar-pb7ry]

Amazed with your content thank you scroll !

[@jitendrapatel1948]

CHEMICAL FERTILIZERS AND HYBRID SEEDS BOTH HAS DESTROYED ORIGINAL TEST. HATS OF TO THIS PEOPLE.

[@humanbng7123]

Now a days many youth are even getting attracted towards agriculture..as they are now realising the capability and importance of it

[@swatisonawane1192]

Thanks for excellent coverage

[@navathatadi6405]

Great video very inspired All the best....!!!

[@Diksha_Gauns]

I love south Indians, very simple and humble people, no showoffs and fake stories. Love from Goa❤️

[@vishwasnagappa1245]

Everywhere North is the problem

[@pravinamin1906]

Good Movement liked ur idea & Motive behind it, All The Best 👍

[@jishnukv8316]

Very inspiring

[@seema4206]

Thanq fr sharing this info,,,this is something I hv heard first time,, heirloom seeds,,,

[@janakijupudy948]

Really felt very great to know about such a simple lady Mrs ashwani sister and for the revival of native seeds distributing the local ladies to involve into a good gardening from Mr Suresh garu.

[@vishalkumararya3649]

Wow wat a beautiful story....👍👍

[@pinklady7184]

Here in Ireland, my late father used to keep a kitchen garden at the back of his bike shop. Growing crops was a hobby to him. He grew potatoes, onions, shallots, cabbage, turnips, beans, apples, etc.

[@pinklady7184]

Prathamesh Adsul My ancient surname belongs to royal ancestors who were Celts. They were once kings, princes, lords, etc. My ancestors had lost all their castles, wealth and aristocracy to Olivier Cromwell's troops from Britain that had invaded Ireland and oppressed nation for centuries. Today, I am a commoner and I am happy with my humble minimalistic life.

[@shailidevi4085]

Awesome story, protecting native things need of hour.

[@vaishhobby_corner]

Awesome idea.. lucky are those people who has the opportunity to grow them at their houses.

[@priyankaverma318]

Unwind out of the day.....wow

[@tilak231]

Amazing initiative!!

[@ruthmoore2246]

Great ideas thank you very much..

[@stardust2531]

My mom does the same and also we have our village house where we have proper agriculture culture , totally organic.. I have vowed to do the same in coming years..

[@rubeenaanjum777]

One of the best channels I have ever known

[@markarca6360]

Go local. Help local businesses. Lessen dependence on foreign goods. Make #IncredibleIndia even more incredible.

[@marg2711]

incredible!

[@covidwarrior2808]

No wonder the food does not taste the same nowadays. I grow a lot of veg in my garden here in london, however the taste which was there 40 years ago is gone. As the lady says, seeds are coated with poison.

[@aanchalkimtani6682]

Beautiful!

[@ritikaritu2181]

Mainstream India doesn't show this, they are all about victimising jihaadis... It's sad to see that this isn't getting the attention it deserves. I am thankful for Scroll.in for making this important and useful content

[@jayanthkumar1123]

Simply amazing and inspiring people.... Seriously it's a movement to be started very soon by mist urban dwellers...

[@handl3_me]

I love this 💗

[@SM-2gmnl]

I grew up in Kerala and going back after 10 years and asking the children growing up there knew which plants I’m talking about...they had no idea.

[@lohithan1175]

I am really feeling proud by seeing this video. We have to start changing ourselves from modern culture to tradition culture then only we can save ourselves as our environment

[@dimplegera3176]

What a great effort towards your family and society .

[@srinivasn415]

wow. There's a meditative feel embedded in this video. Need more of these.

[@111saibaba]

Specially this carona time is when you have to explore your own traditional food, ingredients and cooking to boost your immunity. I think people's health improves with these methods by at least 50%.

[@pawandeepsingh8706]

Beautiful lines... waste from my kitchen food goes to garden and garden gives food to my kitchen..

[@sanjaybhatikar]

Thank you 💖

[@sunitathakur446]

Commendable 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@draverma7780]

Nice to hear you doing very good work

[@veena5353]

I stay in Mumbai I have a very small kitchen garden in my balcony I really appreciate very Idea of have a kitchen garden it had really helped me during the initial stage of lockdown .

[@Marvelmania.DCxmen]

What an inspirational and powerful woman.

[@prabhalaprasanna7259]

Wherever I go I used to collect seeds. Sometimes in kitchen some vegetables good in taste I used store that seeds. Now also I am having some varieties with me. I want to plant them. But we are staying in flats and I am having two small grand children

[@karlbock5829]

What a wonderful movement!

[@bhagyalakshmi3583]

Its awesome dude

[@maharudrahukkeri3973]

Ashwini Mam,very good creative work!Inspiring India,proud of ur work.

[@chandanamaitra5692]

Seeds mix wd ash can be stored fr one or teo years😍

[@vrushaliharihar5457]

This is real investment for generations ahead... salute for the great work...

[@shubhendubhuta7178]

Congrats mam. You are an inspiration 👍

[@rasbijalpatel310]

Ashwini you have a content life around the veg garden. Can’t imagine the joy you feel and flavors the family gets to taste. Grow greens gals.

[@fr_greywolf.]

Ur Doing best work really because ur motivating youth like me

[@maheshkris2177]

Amazing

[@annuuchudasama1208]

I m also start and really happy and satisfied 😃

[@harishbabu5162]

Good content..keep it up guys

[@djsjsjjejebfbdj]

The sad truth is we've irretreivably lost most of our crop diversity forever. Makes me sad af but it's good they've started saving whatever remains

[@devdaspal5176]

Sir you doing good Job. People will learn from you and can change there life.

[@tranquilgiftsonline]

Well. Done we need natural old school stuff our grandparents used to do to come back

[@SupremeRepairs]

ಅದ್ಭುತವಾದ ಸುಂದರವಾದ ವಿಡಿಯೋ ❤️😍✋ amazing and beautiful video ❤️🌹🙏🙏

[@vishalareddy4116]

I love our indian food its way yummie than the burgers and pizza.this is gng to be my retirement therapy.iys very time consuming it's sound good but we city goers are so stuck in our own life

[@AdarshRevankar]

This channels video looks ❤️ Nice camera work !!!

[@shwetaambawanekar8246]

It is awesome Movement and more should join in

[@shashankshalabh4514]

its not just a story its an inspirational movements

[@swatikulkarni3740]

Really good

[@arpithcl1994]

Hi @Scrol.in , I request you to update the contact detail of such environmental developer's could help us to contact them and we can be the part of ecoindia.

[@butterflyvlogs944]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/iIPbqKewmZqbqKs

[@mrteja9574]

Nature recalling

[@sailiingle5318]

Hello, it's great to see your garden and encouraging to others, I have a big place around my house so many times I have tried to grow the vegetables it comes but very little and start getting dried...so I left it my son suggest to do hydroponics but we haven't tried...still we have some tree like mango, coconut and some other fruts, like guavas.. I saw it in your garden too, I have lk 49 and now a day it has 5/6 small guavas growns.. please suggest me properly what should I do for them so that they will grow in good quality....🌹

[@preethipaniker]

Good effort & initiative

[@abdullahak2204]

This is so nice

[@Azee2]

Love the nature

[@uruvilaathakarjanan9996]

Also consider looking into AgroForestry, Organic Fertilizers, Native Seeds & Plant Saplings from Farmers Producer Organisation.

[@ekanshomrey]

She's brilliant!!