From farm to plate
The Hindu
Find a small patch to grow vegetables and have freshly grown produce in the kitchen
One Sunday, accompanying my wife to the vegetable market, I was shocked to know that drumsticks cost 150 a kg. Giving me a disapproving look, she said, “Since you always got good reasons to avoid coming to the market, you don’t know what the prices are.” Of a few things which we had in abundance in our childhood were drumsticks as we had two trees in our backyard. Hence it was difficult to digest that they cost so much now. We had many fruit trees too — varieties of mango, papaya, passion fruit, jackfruit. Most of the times, my grandmother would be in the backyard exercising her green thumb. Every season, the family would grow beans and as children, we would happily engage in all activities from sowing to harvest on the small patch of land.More Related News