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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...

Gaurang H. Motta
May 27, 20242 min read
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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...

Gaurang H. Motta
May 13, 20242 min read
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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

Gaurang H. Motta
May 4, 20245 min read
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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,,
Monks Bouffe
Apr 29, 20242 min read
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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...

Gaurang H. Motta
Oct 21, 20235 min read
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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

Gaurang H. Motta
Sep 27, 20234 min read
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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...

Gaurang H. Motta
Oct 1, 20225 min read
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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...

Gaurang H. Motta
Sep 15, 20224 min read
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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...

Gaurang H. Motta
Sep 9, 20225 min read
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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...

Gaurang H. Motta
Aug 29, 20223 min read
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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...

Gaurang H. Motta
Aug 6, 20225 min read
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