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Gaurang H. Motta
May 272 min read
Climate Change Sours Konkan's Pickle-Making Tradition
Summer in Maharashtra's Konkan region has long been a time of vibrant culinary traditions, with families bustling about their...
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Gaurang H. Motta
May 132 min read
Silence of the Mahua Tree: A Flowering Season Gone Wrong
This summer, a worrying silence has fallen over the forests of Maharashtra. The forest carpet that usually turns green with abundance of...
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Gaurang H. Motta
May 45 min read
Unlocking Health with Palash: The Traditional Indian Game Changer for Acidic Bodies!
A tree highly revered in Vedic literature, it can also be described as the cooling flame because of its cooling & alkalising properties
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Monks Bouffe
Apr 292 min read
Women of Sukh Bhoomi Trust - Weaving a story of empowerment through nutrition
On April 24, 2024 we visited the quaint village & forests of Chandrapada in Palghar district of Maharashtra, with our focus on documenting,,
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Gaurang H. Motta
Oct 21, 20235 min read
The story of HMT rice - A variety that brought prosperity to all except the farmer who developed it.
India - the land of ancient rice varieties.
Historical figures suggest, we had more than 1 lakh varieties of indigenous rice, which have...
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Gaurang H. Motta
Sep 27, 20234 min read
A sleepless night around our Khapli Wheat fields
Inspite of unseasonal rains & a sleepless night, we got an abundant harvest of Khapli wheat and a happy client who trusted and supported us
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Gaurang H. Motta
Oct 1, 20225 min read
My 6 Major Learnings as an Entrepreneur in the Organic Food Space
It’s been a roller-coaster of a journey being a bootstrapped food entrepreneur in a segment which is on its own journey towards being...
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Gaurang H. Motta
Sep 15, 20224 min read
Millets – The Strongest Proponents to Re-Kindling Traditional Cooking Methods
As the conversation around the consumption of millets and about traditional methods of cooking grows, we need to be aware...
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Gaurang H. Motta
Sep 9, 20225 min read
Millets – The Past, the Present and surely the Future
Courtesy my grand-parents and parents, millets have been an integral part of my childhood.
At least one in five people I speak to at the...
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Gaurang H. Motta
Aug 29, 20223 min read
The Dilemma of Inconsistency – The Story of Wild Forest Honey.
It’s been 4 years since we introduced our revered wild forest honey from the wilderness of the
Sunderbans. There have been many folks in...
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Gaurang H. Motta
Aug 6, 20225 min read
Making the transition from Employee to Entrepreneur – My story
Since I co-founded Monks Bouffe in January 2016, this has been one constant question I have answered
for almost everyone I have met...
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