The United Nations has declared 2023 the International Year of Millets. “It’s ironic that we find millets only at an occasion like a Wild Food Fest,” says Chef Thomas Zacharias leading an enriching conversation on wild foods and communities on a sunny winter morning at habba, a celebration at the green campus of The Keystone Foundation in Kotagiri. At one …
The Nilgiris are home to over eighteen ethnic groups. Image via Mongabay-India/ Keystone Foundation Keeping the buzz alive We stood there watching in amazement as hundreds of bees buzzed around him and he did not swat even one, “Normally, one or two bees will sting us, but if he hit them, hundreds will swarm us recognizing the smell of the …
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