Organic Mahotsav 29th November, 2019 – 1st December 2019, Shilpgram Udaipur
The Organic Farming Association of India (OFAI) organised its 7th National Biennial Convention on Organic Farming – Organic Mahotsav, 2019 – at Shipgram, Udaipur from 29th November, 2019 to 1st December 2019. The event brought together over 3000 farmers from 25 Indian states as well as numerous organisations, groups, government departments, researchers, academicians’, singers, actors […]
Community discussion on uncultivated food and traditional crops at Bhallu Dighi village, Mainpur Block, Gariaband District Chhattisgarh – 9th November 2019
Basant Soni and Dhansay Sori On the 9th of November 2019, we visited the Kamar village of Bhallu Dighi which is located on a hill top. We facilitated a discussion with the villagers of Bhallu Dighi on uncultivated food and the revival of traditional crops. In the course of this discussion the village elders shared […]
Forest trail with the school children of Devdongar village, Mainpur Block, Gariaband District, Chhattisgarh – 15th October 2019
Basant Soni and Dhansay Sori On the 15th of October 2019 the village elders of Devdongar village took a group of school children for a forest trail in Devdongar’s forests. The elders showed the children a variety of uncultivated food and medicinal plants. They shared how their ancestors used to use medicinal plants from their […]
Awareness Program on Uncultivated Food with school and Angan Wadi children of Dongar Tarai Village, Korba District, Chhattisgarh – 28th September 2019
Ramakant Jaiswal and Tiharu Birhor On 28th September we organized a program with the school and Angan Wadi children of Dongar Tarai village in Korba District of Chhattisgarh, to spread awareness about the uncultivated food that the Birhors have traditionally collected and consumed. The program involved 18 children, 11 boys and 7 girls, who were […]
Exhibition of Uncultivated and Wild Food of the Kamars, Kuladighat village, Mainpur Block, Gariyaband District, Chhattisgarh – 15th August 2019
By Basant Soni and Dhansay Sori On the occasion of Independence Day the UD fellows of Gariyaband District organised an exhibition of uncultivated food for the school students and teachers of Kuladighat Primary School. A variety of wild tubers that the Kamar have traditionally consumed were on display and they included – Karu kanda, Bechandi […]
Sapling Distribution in Pali and Podi Blocks, Korba District, Chhattisgarh – July and August 2019
By Ramakant Jaiswal and Tiharu Birhor A sapling distribution campaign was carried out from 10th July to 10th August 2019 in Pali and Podi Blocks of Korba district. A nursery of a variety of uncultivated and local fruit trees like Mango, Neembu, Amrood (Guava), Barmasi, Munga, Kathal, Papita, and Jamun was established in Udta village […]
Tuber garden cum tuber bank at Abbalathi village, Periyapatna, Karnataka
Ramachandran K G Participation in two tuber festivals has made a Jenukuruba women’s group from Abbalathi village in Periya patna area think about their traditional varieties of tubers. They wanted to revive them and started to think about a nursery to bring back some of the tuber species to their homesteads. They were not allowed […]
Establishment of a Nutrition Garden for the Primary School of Jilang village, Baigachak, Dindori District, MP – 6th August 2019
By Hiralal Gaund On the 6th of August 2019 a nutrition garden was established through the Using Diversity project adjoining the hand pump of the Primary School of Jilang village. The run off from the hand pump would help provide necessary water for growing a variety of uncultivated and traditional leafy vegetables in a plot […]
Tuber banks at Nedunkayam village, Nilambur, Kerala
By Ramachandran K G and Sunilkumar N Tubers were once an integral and inevitable part of the diet of Adivasi communities of Nilambur like anywhere else. They knew a lot about different varieties of edible wild tubers growing within the forests. They had also cultivated many different varieties of tubers in their farmland, however small […]
Awareness Program on Uncultivated Food with students of Kairodoli Medium School, Littipara Block, Pakur District, Jharkhand, 26th July 2019
Pilathus Malto On the Friday the 26th of July an awareness program on the Uncultivated Food of the Paharias was organised for the school children of Kairodoli Medium School. 43 school children, 32 girls and 11 boys, accompanied by their teacher Anil Kumar Malto, were taken to Kathalpara’s forest to explore some of the different […]