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Apparently there are or were nearly 4,000 varieties of potatoes in the world. That blew our minds too. 🥔

Over thousands of years, indigenous farming communities cultivated potatoes adapted to different climates, soils, altitudes, flavours, textures, and nutritional needs — long before monoculture reduced food into just a handful of commercial varieties.

Many of those communities also became the protectors of that biodiversity, preserving seeds, knowledge, and farming traditions across generations despite industrial agriculture steadily replacing diversity with uniformity.

What we eat today is only a fraction of what biodiversity once looked like.

Food was never meant to be uniform.
And maybe flavour was never the only thing we lost.

Kerala, though not perfect, has always been joint in celebrations, disasters and kinship. Hope we keep traveling the same paths tread by our ancestors towards a land of love and communion.

Eid Mubarak to all friends...🤍

There is tea and....there is tea...

We are used to seeing huge monocrop plantations of tea but tea grew as trees in ancient China. And tea can be a lot of different types.

Let's sip our Shankhpushpam tea or any, thought fully...

Amala Chai, Fair Trade Alliance Kerala and Elements Fair Organic come together to bring that unique cup of tea to you...

Amala Chai 2 likes. "Journey Through Chai | Delhi & Kerala | Extended Trailer"

International Day of Plant Health | 12-05-2026

Labour is not separate from land.
And rights are not separate from survival.

This International Labour Day, we remember those who understood that the fight for workers is also a fight for the earth that sustains them. Together, these reflections remind us that labour, land, and life are deeply interconnected, not separate struggles but parts of the same whole.

International Labour Day | 01-05-2026

To truly see the earth is to understand our place within it.

Earth Day | 22-04-2026

They say the first sight
sets the tone for the whole year.

So beside the Golden Laburnum
we’re placing
love,
conscious choices,
kindness,
and integrity...
Happy Vishu!

"Dr B R Ambedkar refused to romanticise the farmer as a single, undifferentiated subject, as it carelessly bundled together both big landlords and small cultivators. His insistence on precision of language was political, about ensuring that policies designed to uplift farmers would not become tools in the hands of the landed elite.

Seventy-seven years later, his insights remain urgent. The figure of the “farmer” continues to be invoked in national politics, but Dr Ambedkar reminds us to ask—which farmer?"
Siddesh Gautam, writes.

Remembering Dr Ambedkar's tireless work.
Ambedkar Jayanti | 14-04-2026