Close to the vernal equinox in the first full moon we celebrate Holi or Dol.
Category: Environment
Audible Weed Walk – ep.33 “Let’s set our controls to nature”
Inspired by the Pink Floyd song - lyric Set the controls for the heart of the sun, this week's podcast's theme is to set our controls to Nature.
Audible Weed Walk – ep.32 “Let’s fire up our tradition of inquiry – Be a weeder!”
Our true tradition – is not the tradition of memories and practices of forgotten reasons, but it is a tradition of inquiry - that we need to continue to refine.
Audible Weed Walk – ep.31 “Recognizing, appreciating and eating is unshackling weedy food”
I thought wild green had to address the stigma of it being “poor person’s food”. I think I have to delve deeper for the true issue.
Audible Weed Walk – ep.30 “Where the journey truly started”
If I call the book a launching pad, the weed-walk was definitely the flight (or bus or walk whatever one can imagine) and the experience the journey...
Audible Weed Walk – ep.29 “Chance encounters – walk to plate”
As a weeder – something you get to know a species that is new to you. Then you see a plant that you already knew, may have even known about some of its medicinal or edible uses and yet - you discover something new in them.
Wild, uncultivated, and often unwanted plants- can be insectary plants to attract and support beneficial insects. How do they do that? Let's find out.
Audible Weed Walk – ep.27 “Feeling and singing the blues..”
We have had unusual rains this year. Record shows that Tamil Nadu has received 138mm or rain in January 2021. The only time it was slightly more rained in – in January was in 1921, yes 100yrs ago.
Audible Weed Walk – ep.26 “Does foraging make us different?
Remember I spoke about Shinrin-Yoku or forest bathing sometime back? Not everyone has access to a forest, but everyone has access to weeds – in the milieu.
Audible Weed Walk – ep.25 “Foraging as a child”
Persons who forage more wild varieties in childhood have a better sense of biodiversity as adults.