Attempt to revive Traditional sustainable agricultural practices of Kerala
Many among you might have heard that you should avoid eating drumstick leaves during Karkadamasam which falls between mid July and August. To know more about this, let’s first understand what’s so special about this
Men sow seeds. Weeds, are God’s deeds. As this saying shows, it really is difficult to compete with weeds while farming. De-weeding becomes a back breaking process without smart planning. Weeds will suck up most
Dr G Nammalvar once said in his TED talk and laughed,“Poisons are called medicine in local languages”(puchi marande– medicine for pest‘tamil’). Any word that ends in “cide” would be killing something. So chemicals which kill
Once upon a time Kerala was blessed with lots of fresh water fishes. I mean just 20 years back there were numerous fishes in ponds, lakes, canals and rivers. I have witnessed Almost all the
Kumbalanga is a general term used for pumpkin and ash gourd in Kerala. However, pumpkin is referred to as Mathan kumbalam and ash gourd as Ilavan Kumbalam. Ilavan (ash gourd) was once an integral part
Turmeric plant (curcuma longa) has been cultivated in most part of India and other continents since time immoral. Cooking with turmeric powder is just a new phenomenon; almost 20 years back in Kerala people would
