Benefits of Preparing Your Balcony Garden To Enjoy Home Grown Vegetables
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Benefits of Preparing Your Balcony Garden To Enjoy Home Grown Vegetables

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Over the decades, Indian cuisine has developed a unique vegetable consumption pattern based on a seasonal calendar that follows the annual cycle of foraging, planting, harvesting, cooking, and preserving edible plants. Seasonal vegetables are nature’s way of enriching the diet, and the traditional diet includes whatever is locally available in season. Chef Kunal Kapur said, “While most urban-dwellers have space constraints, a growing number of people are dabbling in kitchen gardening, even if it means just a few vegetables and herbs in pots on their balcony, because the joy of nurturing one’s own food and seeing it come to fruition is very fulfilling. It is also making consumers more appreciative of the food systems they rely on.” Avid gardener and author of Everyday Superfoods, Nandita Iyer took to urban gardening a decade ago.

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